Blastman

• Electionstrut 2024

  Blastman

  November 6

  klezmer electro-thug beats said:

  Blastman said:

  I'm not old enough to vote, but I am not dumb, I don't like the feeling i'm getting from Donald Trumps possible plans... I haven't seen enough of you guys to really gauge whether SoulStrut is "left or right" but considering the origins of the genre, I'd hope most of us are really scared for our country. I don't like being political because it is really extreme a lot of the time, I just feel like this is different.

  
  Nah your instincts are both correct. With some exceptions the Strut has not been a conservative crowd; and more importantly, "this is different" is right too.
  
  I think since like 1945 there's been an illusion in the US that "we are the superpower, we control the world, we are competent, we are strong" and it's painful for a lot of generations that lived through what felt like stability provided by those things to face up to the fact that the States is not in a permanent meteoric rise. It's a construction of history just like any other empire. 

  This inability to handle historical change comes from early on in life - how history is taught to us, as if the founding documents, the ideas of a bunch of slavemasters, are tantamount to gospel and can withstand any historical forces. A lot of disillusionment from older generations is turning into ugly instincts. A lot of this has precedent in history elsewhere, it shouldn't come as a surprise really, but "it can't happen here" is rapidly getting proven wrong wherever it might've been applied in the past.

  I think there's a lot more people can do about it than they know though. Voting is something that takes like an hour once every few years. Assuming you're not already worth billions, building political power, group power, the power to defend and support yourself and your community, takes longer than that but can't be taken away as easily. You don't have to be 18 (or a citizen) to start that either.
  

  I really appreciate this sort of commenting, this really helps me understand better. I feel like the reaction is coming across as "they can't do this" in place of what they are actually feeling "how is this possible." I don't really understand how people see the choice between the two as such a hard one, trump is not like a bad person in the metaphorical sense that he "doesn't stand for me or you, yada yada" but in the sense that he is literally a criminal. The amount of people that actually voted is like half of the people that live here, and that was more than normal for this election. 

  

• Soul Strut 25: We're Not Done Yet Edition

  Blastman

  October 17
  Preserving this site is awesome considering how old it is. 1999 is an age of internet people want to remember, and see. It gets even better when the people on the site still use it, because then you know it was a good idea and the history of its success is justified, and the people apart of it can remember what was.

  

• what's crackin' soulstrut???

  Blastman

  October 10

  klezmer electro-thug beats said:

  You're about the age I was when I first read the Strut. Finding music you could listen to on the internet was new then, and the fact that there was a site devoted to talking about old stuff, stuff I didn't know, stuff that wasn't selling millions or playing everywhere in commercials and movies, was huge. I hope you find some stuff worth pursuing here like I did.
  
  The good thing about all the on SS over the years is that music talk doesn't age out. You will never go back to outdated posts about the latest phone or software or whatever from 15-20 years ago, but music knowledge lasts. Tastes change though. Nobody gave a shit about boogie in 2001. Did they?
  

  See I think my taste in this world is different, I seek the knowledge of things I don't really need to, so I can relate  to everyone I can meet. I use mac emulators for the time just to understand how lucky I am to be where I am. I cannot state how much I LOVE 'retro' or (even more quotations because stuff isn't that old) "old" stuff. I think it's because I grew up homeless, and I was adopted fast enough I never got to be the child of my time. I never played with kids my age, because I was being abused in my house for all my childhood, so I invent when I was from, and I love how far we've come. 

  

• Soul Strut 25. This is the End.

  Blastman

  October 3
  Hey there soulstrut, It is very possible that I am the youngest here, I found this just a week ago and it fits me too well! I'm only 16 but I have such an old soul for the past, I love looking through my families records, (I have a small collection of my own too) and I may not understand what even 1/100ths of any of this, but I wish I could have been here longer, it seems like a great community. I'll be here for when it ends, even if I was -9 when it was founded, I'll go down with it as if I was always there!