SCHOLARLY HARDCORE KIDS:
"the Pit: Violence or Just Homosexual Tendencies?"
It happens every time you go to a hardcore show. The "pit" breaks out, and you either have to quickly move or be subjugated to a punch in the face. Sorry, do you not know what "subjugated" means? Perhaps you frequent the "pit" too much? It's sad to hear that.
For as long as I can remember, this "pit", this "dancing" has existed at hardcore shows, and at the risk of not sounding hardcore enough or whatever shit you want to pin on me, let me just ask you one simple question... Why?
Why do you people feel the need to kick and punch each other in order to enjoy the music? Are you incapable of pleasure without pain? Are you just that stupid and monosyllabic? Do you want to make the night that much harder for everyone around you by making them be involved with something they obviously want no part of?
I'm going to try to look passed the blatant signs of homosexuality amongst the male on male body interaction, and skip right down to the bottom line of this "dancing", which isn't really dancing at all but more of a B rate kung fu film. When you look passed the sweaty, half naked guys, running around, touching up against each other, you have violence. Nothing more, nothing less. You have violence.
People who have been known for their objectivity to cruelty towards animals, abuse towards women, and other traditions of violent nature that they hope will one day become non-existant, find it suiting some how to punch someone they don't know in the jaw. How does this make any sense whatsoever? How are these actions justified? How are these actions dignified? How can you sit there and preach such ideas of peace, then start punching and kicking when your favorite song comes on?
Are we not civilized? Perhaps people who go to hardcore shows really are the scum of the earth. When you think of a fancy opera or something of equal sophistication, the attendants there sit down in chairs for the whole night. Surely if they were to witness such actions as your alleged "dancing" they would tell you it was not really dancing at all. Surely if they were to witness a "pit" they would think nothing more of you than animals.
But I don't want to sit down at shows and clap with two fingers. I don't think we need to take it that far. I don't think we need to become that tame. But something to me about this notion of violence that comes with a "pit" or "dancing" or whatever you want to call it, it just reminds me of cavemen. The idea of cavemen, walking around blindly, bumping into things and each other before they realized that pain hurt, and that was bad. Before they knew better. Do we know better? I would have hoped we'd come further than this as a race in the past 2000 years.
