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So today in English we watched this documentary by Stacy Peralta about surfing that was totally kick a**. It was to show how Surfers had their own thing going for them when they first came into existence, no one had discovered them yet, so the sport was untainted by business men yet. It was this pure sport about having fun and doing what ever the hell you wanted. Then suddenly after the release of this movie everyone wanted to surf and they started to market surfing and mass producing it and giving Surfers a stereotype. And seeing this made me realize a few things. One: the 21st century hasn't produced any worth while sub-cultures. Sure you have your emos, and your gangsters and what not but they aren't the type of sub-culture I'm talking about. In the Fifties and early sixties it was the surfers followed by the hippies, skipping forward to the early eighties you get the punks and then grunge, but that's where it ends, there are no rebelious sub-cultures after that that are about having fun and doing what you want and "sticking it to the man."

The second thing I noticed is how to kill a culture. Sub cultures come in when the old one is dying, there is a new thing to cause rebellion. and for a while this culture is somewhat neglected, until hollywood or something brings it into center focus. And that's how to kill a culture, introduce it to the entire world at large and let all the people who need a way to define them selves and be "cool" haev a piece of it. Once a culture is mass produced it starts to die.