There is a difference between being hip and being slimey. There should be a goal to be in somewhere in the middle, like sleazy.
You do seem to have a chip on your shoulder about this whole drug thing. Most of hte music we listen to is made by people that take drugs, oftentimes even in teh studio. But yo, has there ever really been a music scene anywhere with the music really being the only reason for its existence. People are social animals that like to be entertained. Be happy that they are helping support what you enjoy, unless you like following the output of dead genres. Live a little or chill out, either way dont let what others are doing dictate your experience.
Red Kite wrote:I see your point, but the problem in Berlin is that there's so many wasted possibilities, so much nose-in-the-air-attitude in the crowd and in the party organizers that you always have in mind what everything could be if people just wanted it to be.
The problem that everybody wants to make it in Berlin, every artist moving to Berlin, everybody pretending to be a cool artist knowing everybody else just intensifies that problem, often turning parties in snobby artists & friends only events. And if you open up the parties to everybody, like Tresor does, again people are complaining that all the proles who got turned away at the other venues gather there.
And the worst thing: It's not about the music at all. People are either too drugged to care about the music or they are just on the parties to hang out with their cool friends (probably some artists who moved to Berlin) and pretend to be important.
Stupid elitarian thinking basically ruined the club culture in Berlin. It's all just a waste!
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