i recently saw a guy who is making lollipops that have a spoon at the end for scooping coke.
feels very american to capitalize upon not only whatever skewed perception of raves you have, but also on the worsening war on drugs
the brand is also called BUSS which is funny as fuck
raves in my head were always about counterculture, where communities that were in the margins of society had a place to gather and have fun. raves were supposed to be done in abandoned buildings, and you had to find flyers to get in. many musical genres evolved from the scene, from what i know, and it has had a big impact on alternative culture altogether.
or at least that is what a google search teaches me about the origins of raving, i dont know. and to be honest, i don't even give that much of a fuck about raves. i don't like techno at all. anyways
the raves i see on the internet now are in the middle of dubai in broad daylight (not "all-nighter and now the sun is up" kind of daylight, "party starts at 3 noon :)" kind of daylight). self-proclaimed ravers dress up in colorful costumes as if they are going to slutty jamales and whip around glowsticks and plastic round concoctions with strange looking colors. i know for a fact this was a sport (???) invented by high people for high people. there is no way one would be so interested in a light display unless they were heavily dosed with something or under 10 years old. i try to imagine myself in the line for a rave for which i have to pay 25e to get in, and in the line ahead of me i am pretty sure i see a girl i went to high school with who got good grades but was mean to everyone.
i would here like to mention the 'took a little bit of acid little bit of shrooms' girl versus julia kremajulia, and the way that somehow, julia is the better version. i would also like to add the phrase 'labubu rave'
the second half of the subject that i have to acknowledge is the weird spot that coke is in in today's society. at the same time mainstream and fringe activity. growing up i always had this idea of coke as an unreachable devil drug, that would instantly kill you unless you were a very bad evil guy in a movie, or a very cool greek guy that parties a lot and has a soul patch. don't even ask how i found these pics.
in the big 25 people you went to school who post their avocado toasts daily do coke. people you meet when you go to smoke outside of the bar do coke. the sweet old guy who has ran a shop at your neighborhood for the past 40 years does A LOT of coke. and you can't even be particularly surprised, because at this point no one knows what someone who does coke even looks like.
that being said i have to also mention the multiple multiple comments under the original reel (yes i started from somewhere) that read verbatim "let's not normalize doing coke!!!!" with the obligatory self-censoring that social media has conditioned our brain to subject our comments to. so it would have been more like "c0k3!!!", i guess. and i, for one, am all for normalizing coke, but in the sense that we should make people who do coke more normal instead of there just being a seemingly RNG based possibility of everyone in the world to be a cokehead.
in the end, i remain baffled with how an am*rican managed to not only manufacture the need for new kinds of specialized lollipops, but also coke. simultaneously upping the demand for two unrelated (seemingly) products at the same time. and the worst part? it is, more than anything, cringe. it is capitalistic in an embarrassing way, stupid to admit that 'oh yea i found these lollipops through reels'. it is driving the cool meter of lollipops, drugs, coke, raves, everything, down.
the last mention intermission (inter-mention???) is all about returning to our roots. the world would be a better place if everyone who did coke was obvious about it, unhinged, eccentric and with the interior design skills of a true 70s dude living in california.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk. -Cheems
