Not to fully interject myself into the topic, but I'd like to comment on
the platforms modernism stands on. The internationalism makes sense in the
jet set sense too, but I'd wager that several "mods" fit into that category
as anglophiles more than anything else...The working class issues isn't quite
what it used to be. I say this because I agree, it seems from my experience
that more and more "mods" these days are middle to upper class. There's
nothing working class about a girl getting a vespa for her birthday from her
rich father, you know? I've heard accounts of "mods" on the west coast who
were rather well off...And would take part in the culture for a couple years,
and after they had all the clothes and the bike, they'd just get bored with
it. Once more, not to say all are like this, but as the counterculture on a
whole spreads, especially in a country like the US who is enjoying a time of
economic prosperity for the most part, there's just going to be more people
like that. As far as it being mostly kids, I'd just throw that out the
window. While the original, authentic Mods were kids that started as young as
13 and all, it's definately not that way now. It's really not too much a
youth culture when you have thirty something rockers at your local concert
hall/pub who still claim to be Mods. I think that's something a lot of people
miss, is that modernism was really a youth culture. But now the lines are
blurred. Kids may be describing a larger sect that it once did, but you're
more of an adult than a kid in your mid to late 20's, and it's a shame,
because some don't really act their age.
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