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Gifted Children Find Heavy Metal Comforting
An anonymous reader writes "The Daily Telegraph is reporting that intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research.
Researchers found that, far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent "metalheads" are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders."
Sure. Go ahead and roll your eyes. Then put on your costume and have mom drop you off downtown a few blocks from the club. Things have moved on, man.
Don't be angry that you probably weren't born yet in 1979.
Geek libertarianism and Punk DIY-anarchism fit parts of the left and parts of the right. Matching the left, they care about solidarity, anti-corporatism, and socio-cultural liberty. Matching the right, they care about negative freedoms (small, limited government as opposed to the nanny state) and "rugged individualism."
No, that does not indicate anything on the left or the right. It indicates Liberal beliefs. Liberal as in what the word actually means, not the bastardization used in America.
As soon as you say DIY, you completely reject the left and the right since they are both about using big government against other people to make the others do shit for them.
And your entirely inaccurate characterisation of the right is mind blowing.
Small limited government?!? What exactly are you smoking. The right believes in big oppressive totalitarian government to keep all the "undesirables" out of the way of the elite. "rugged individualism"?!? Seriously, Dude. You described Liberalism there. As in the philosophy that led to the foundation of America.
The left and the right both despise Liberalism because that's what it is. When you try and claim that for the right when the right is rabidly, violently opposed to exactly those things you demonstrate both your ignorance and your own contempt for it.