The Dilemma Of Subcultures

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the Negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix". this statement still rings in our ears & is ever present. i too saw subcultures fall apart, and people going down with them. even if they started with a great idea, spirit, movement. there was one cause for this, that was a more important factor to this then most other. this is that the "system" - let's call it system for now - the hierarchy, society, this mainstream culture, has its very own immune system. there are always plenty of fuck-ups and creeps, in a negative way, that do not fit in to society. in fact it took me a long time to realize this; that not every outcast or outsider is this for noble reasons, but sometimes just because he is indeed more fucked up in a multitute of ways than "normal people" (who are, of course, already pretty fucked up). these people always run around and try to find some social circle and subculture that "accepts" them, lets them in, as they have nothing else they can cling to.
once they're in they're leeching off the creativity, enthusiasm, spontanity of the subculture and generate a negative mood and drag everything down. like a virus, this strain is eventually too much and the subculture breaks down, turns sour. once these creeps have established themselves, they will start to bully the original people out of the scene. also, some of the originators of the culture, who have some torn personality too, will realize that the creeps outnumber the creative people and if they support them, they will elevate them - as a DJ, artist, musician whatever - to their own stardom. so their support their agenda, turn their back on the creative people, and the scene gets torn.
just a short intermission - of course they're also wonderful "freaks" and outcasts and people who have a hard time to fit in - i'm not talking about these but their negative counterparts. those who cannot amount to contribute anything positive and just inject decay into interesting and noble goals, ideals - scenes.
one of the difference between these groups is that the "positive" people find their scene eventually, and contribute to it and stick with it. while the negative losers do not care what scene or culture or movement they join as they just want to leech creativity and have some false illusion of "fitting in" - if there is no hardcore scene in their town they will become goths for example, if there is no goth scene they turn punk, without any idea or commitment to these scenes really.
i should also add something about the bullying; for example a radical music scene starts with people who share a certain, futuristic mindset, criticize existing hierarchies, criticize ideas about morality, society, culture, nation, military, racism and such.
eventually the creeps will join the scene and they will bring their dumb and conservative ideas and spread racism and rightwing opinions, and in many ways bully those who are smarter then them.
the one issue i want to point out is that the creeps can, in a sense, only enter because the scenes are voluntary open to everyone and everything.
this was the one main flaw, of the punk scene, of the hippie scene, of the techno scene, of the hardcore scene; that everyone was allowed and even encouraged to join, so the people who were too dumb to fit in elsewhere joined quickly, and eventually the reactionaries, the bigots, the idiots and rightwing joined too; because after all, the dumb outnumber the smart by a million; so if everyone is free to enter a subculture, it will become a pit for dumbness.

it should be noted that in the past, in centures and millennia ago, art, wisdom, teaching, culture, was not "open to all"; it was circulated by restricted and sometimes secret circles; you needed initation and qualities to become part of these circles.
the early techno scenes were in some sense a revival of these secret societies; with their info about parties, locations, events only circulated to a select few - not to the masses!

if we want to see that art is not degraded more, and a renaissance of creativity and beauty, we need to get rid of the idea of "access for all"; there needs to be a kind of secret, initiated system again. this way, a stable and ongoing subculture, or better, movement can be created, and the short-livedness of these will be a thing of the past; and an amount of inspiration, beauty, brilliance, will fill these scenes.
but how should we go about this? this is indeed hard to tell. things like money ("you need to pay to get in") are a bad choice for this; this will only attract the rich creeps then and keep the creative poor out.
also, any fixed hierarchy could be a problem; as those are usually prone to get the worst creeps gaining a position at the top!
the early techno scene could maybe be an inspiration; it was not bound on money, and there were no "leaders" and such, still the content was not spread to the "masses"(at least not at first).
it should be noted that even small steps of restriction would already work wonders; if people would have to personally contact and convince people to be part of the secret society (a very "easy" step) this would already prevent most creeps from entering the scene.
another most important thing is that in these times of "social network" circulation, we need to learn the benefits of secrecy again; and if we use secrecy, in the way we do art and spread art, this could already be one of the biggest steps in the right direction.
the question on how to do these things remains open; but we will ponder on them.