Tcahr Issue 04

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           TCAHR - Better Living Through Memetics 

Issue 4 
The Gothic Right to Bitch                           11/01/00 
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Some fool from Austin, hereby known as Timmy the Goth(TM), 
took our bitching against Goth way too seriously on the 
Freakland mailing list.  Our protagonist, filled with his 
usual sarcastic venom, wrote back: 

Sisters!  Brothers!  Virtual citizens of Freakland!  Lend me 
your multi-pierced ears... 

I must protest this attack and breaking of our most sacred 
Gothic tradition: the tradition to bitch.  From the times of 
the most holy king of the Goths, Berig, to our current lord 
Andrew it has been our right as descendents of the good and 
noble people of Gothiscandza to analyze our culture and find 
fault. 

It is not the highest achievements which tell the tale of a 
culture, but the lowest common denominator which describes 
the state of one.  We should not look upon the achievements 
of our greatest heroes such as Maximinus, Africanus, or 
Siouxsie as proof of our worthiness.  We must instead look 
introspectively at those baubles of our culture which revel 
its true nature: Magazines and Web Sites. 

In this we find the elitism, sexism, classism, and racism 
which has plagued us and made us weaker since the time our 
people first split into the separate communities of the 
Visigoths and the Ostrogoths.  It shall continue way beyond 
our modern day division which created the hydra of New 
Romantics, Mansons, Industrialites, and Ravers.  Our 
stringent and fascist reliance on symbolism has divided us 
and the cure is we must not take ourselves too seriously. 

Without the traditions of bitching, we will be unable to 
find the cracks in our collective armor and shall one day 
be stricken down in these places.  The differences in our 
opinion is what has created our culture; dissatisfaction 
with stasis is the first step toward advancement.  The 
Goths, as a whole, must evolve or die.  Even now our great 
warrior-poet ancestors, the Punks, have become powerless as 
the symbols which defined them now crush them. 

We must be strong in these times for the enemy has already 
begun mocking us in his propaganda films such as Blair Witch 
2, Urban Legends, and their immortal classic, Dracula.  They 
have stolen our culture and made it their own.  Was it not 
the tradition of bitching and our dissatisfaction which 
sustained us as a people during the Hun raids?  Do we now 
toss away tradition due to personal offense? 

What would our twin gods of war and darkness, Mars and 
Murphy, think of us now? 

I thank you all for allowing me to address the senate.  May 
the state of Gothiscandza be blessed. 
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