Subcultures, Countercultures, call them what you want.

The "hippies" of the past, were against the corporate ways of the world. They were against "The man". They promoted sustainable energy and uncovered vast cultural diversties. Hippie fashions and values had a major effect on culture, influencing music, television, film, literature, and the arts, let alone creating their very own fashion and styles.

Today, in 2008, there is an emerging subculture as well, its known as Industrial.   In this age we are simply becoming a part of the mass industrialization of entire countries and cultural flaws that are so wide-spread today. Industrial culture embraces the hellish ways of our current world, "goes with the flow" in a way, by creating literature, art, and of course music, surrounding the reality of it all. With this comes a style of dress, clothing, and a fashion of its own.

Finally, we arrive at the point of all this.

Here we are, a generation, that is standing out, finally after our grandparents "movement" has subsided, the 1960's are simply a thing of the past. But, here in our modern world, we arrive to the point were, our subcultural lifestyle is encompassed by the world around us. The music we listen to, the clothes we wear, all of it a reflection of our inner culture, our inner workings.

We listen to the sounds of steel and electricity, yet inside us all is a "tree hugger". We live with the realization, that we are all insignificant, and prisoners to the world around us. The Hippie culture, and the Industrial cultures, are two very opposite things, but at the same time, very similar in the fact that we have a statement to make, weather its opposing governing forces, or embracing the endless insanity of the creations of mankind.

So, Industrial or Hippie, within these subcultural lifestyles, we all understand that the world is a horrible place, not because it was made that way, but because we molded it to be such.

What do you think?