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A comment on Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list. Parent comment

Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by snakeyjake on Friday March 15, 2024 @10:56AM (#39716471)
>Berlin’s scene is actually not so underground and not so cool anymore as a result of tourism and immigration.

In my experience, people who like things because they are hidden and exclusive tend to be shitty, shallow, superficial people. Many, many, varied decades of life lived all over the world, and I've never witnessed a counterexample so I hesitate to make it an absolute.

Same goes for people who think they like things more than others because they liked them first.

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Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by lukan on Friday March 15, 2024 @11:52AM (#39717139)
"In my experience, people who like things because they are hidden"

Sounds a bit like a strawmen. No one here said, they like something, because it is hidden.

But hidden places are quite free and can cultivate a very different culture, than one that plays by all the legal rules. And where money took over everything.

The best places I have been, were not listed in lonely planet. And I could not book them online. I had to find them.

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Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by ferongr on Friday March 15, 2024 @10:59AM (#39716506)
On the other hand, normies do ruin everything.
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Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by snakeyjake on Friday March 15, 2024 @12:23PM (#39717483)
In my experience, 100% of all people who use the word "normie" unironically are shitty, shallow, superficial people.
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Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by mtizim on Friday March 15, 2024 @12:46PM (#39717749)
If you stop squinting, you'll see that neither the average exclusive activity enthusiast, nor a person using "normie" unironically are shallow nor superficial. Maybe your experience can be explained by how you see these people, not by how these people actually are.
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Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by Tainnor on Friday March 15, 2024 @03:44PM (#39719871)
Living in Berlin and being into techno, clubbing and drugs is the most "normie" thing ever. Try being a rock or jazz fan - or even Schlager.
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Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by immibis on Friday March 15, 2024 @02:20PM (#39718993)
How do you feel about Twitter vs Fediverse? People don't like Fediverse "because it's hidden", but they like it because of the qualities it has, many of which are influenced by it being hidden. If it was bigger and still had those qualities, that would be fine too.
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