> at the heart of Mod there are some enormous contradictions/
> paradoxes (the desire to be different/individual against
> the group kinda thing as shown in Quadrophenia)
And that doesn't apply in the rest of life? (That's if you wish to be
individual). Does individuality exist without a society to compare to?
Does that make the definition of individuality based on being different
from the group? And in that case, how can it be a contradiction or
paradox?
> Living in what is the year 2000 with no kinda apparently unique
> subcultures, maybe there are and perhaps I just haven't got my
> finger on the pulse but this is the era of postmodernity,
Aaaargh. If there was, I doubt you or I would notice or care. However
forward looking you are or claim to be you're doing it in reference to
the past. To make the living comparison to one of my own younger
siblings, he has ZERO interest in music made before about 1992 - nor has
been mucked up by reading Dick Hebdidge.
With his neat (hard-mod style) cropped hair, button-down shirt,
expensive casual clothes, and taste for the latest black club music on
white label it would not be too difficult to trace the roots of his
style back to that old mod/casual/soulboy continuum. But the point is
his style didn't even have a name - yet he was definitely part of a
definite subculture (some sub-sub-division of raver) - which came and
went without getting it's own name because it never needed one. And
that's pretty much what you're saying about the early mods - they didn't
worry how mod something was but I'd also add that they didn't worry
about sub-cultures either, they just were.
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