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“As [Leah] Bush and her Goth studies colleagues explain it, so-called elder Goths — who came of age with the music decades ago — possess a kind of road map through life that doesn’t exist for fans of more youth-obsessed musical genres.

For starters, there is the subculture’s deep reverence for the antique. “In the music, the focus isn’t about youth,” Bush tells me. “It’s about more universal themes. Lyrically, it casts a wider net than most pop music. For some reason a Cure lyric keeps popping into my head, the opener to the Cure’s ‘Pornography’ album: ‘It doesn’t matter if we all die.’ ”

“Goths value experience and history. ... And so that makes them more reflective about the aging process,” explains Lauren Goodlad, an English professor at Rutgers University and co-editor of the book Goth: Undead Subculture. Creepy Victorian dolls, haunted chalices, the collected works of Baltimore’s own Edgar Allan Poe: Gothic icons take well to the patina of age.

Bush’s research subjects confirm this. There’s the veteran Goth-ster who’s also an Anglican priest — and sees little contradiction between the two callings. “Jesus,” he argues, “was the most countercultural figure who ever lived.” There’s the married woman who launches a second act peddling the sinister accoutrements of Goth fashion: black leather jackets for men, dark velvet robes for women — and vice versa (Goth bars are second only to queer clubs in their acceptance of androgyny and gender play).

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“Happy Goth” may seem like an oxymoron — but that’s the point. Bush argues that Goths’ success in aging has a lot to do with their ability to juggle opposing, seemingly paradoxical energies. Take Goths’ emotional intensity: While off-putting to some, Goths’ willingness to harness dark feelings such as despair, gloom and hopelessness, rather than repress them, can prove healthier in the long run, Bush says. Equally vital is Goths’ ability to find humor, irony and beauty in supposedly “ugly” sources, such as flowers that grow by a cemetery or the absurd frailties of the aging body. In a culture, for instance, that already treats older women as frightful, why not own that, and become the most fabulous grand dame of darkness the world has ever seen?”

David Walter, “Do ‘elder Goths’ Hold the Secret to Aging Successfully?”

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A Baltimore anthropologist explores the subculture as “an alternative to being aged by culture.”

I am Goth-Adjacent.

I’ve never fully committed to the subculture, but I admire it, and I enjoy many aspects of it.

This is an interesting look at aging, and in a way, an interesting view on the journey to death. The Goth subculture often incorporates the morbid, macabre, and death as a part of it, so it is no surprise that they may find it easier, rather than harder, to age “successfully”.

The traditions that come from their dying may also be a good influence in the process of death itself in western culture, and coming to terms with it.

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it was weird. lots of people had told you that he couldent feel, and you knew he was a robot so it made sense. but no one could deny the different way he acted around you... so non robot like. there was something in his smile that showed actual emotion and he only ever showed it with you.

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Tbh robots quoting poetry in the remains of a dead city is my aesthetic.

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