I fully realize that there are very different kinds of people, with different kinds of motivations.
One quality is that people have phases in life, and they "move on" so to say.
I know a lot of people who were "punks" or "metalheads" and then grew up, so to say. They quit, totally. Just adjusted into what is generally expected from people in the society.
I have written about it, quite alot, some of it found from SI website too. Addressing question if what we are involved in is what in past was seen as "youth culture".
It is very very interesting perspective to realize how new idea is to be somehow committed to (sub)culture that is not all about minimum level of survival. That we have merely couple decades of examples of this. Formerly, it was some sort of rebellious transition moment, before there was something else and idea of grown up man committing some something besides feeding family just wasn't really option.
I was born to moment when to rebel was no longer like "summer of 68" or "summer of 77", but turned out into something else. It was no longer that brief moment, where summer or two you got adolescent idealism, what gets suppressed and you get back to line, so to say. Now what we have is life long commitments into something what in past was just anomaly before you got back in line.
I know a lot of people who are merely in search of something. They test things. A lot of trends. A lot of phases. Making couple noise releases is like fucking couple ladies. You know there are bunch of different kinds of ladies you want to try out and not settle on HNW.. so to say.
I am not here just to "try out things". Noise was never phase, not something that was "done", something I would get tired. I can understand there are people who just test things and realize there are more suitable things for them elsewhere move there. I was never like that, never quit anything, never quit liking something I liked, never felt disappointment nor regret of things I've been doing.
Right now, listening SLOGUN, just after listening DISSECTING TABLE, and drinking little whiskey with it. After day of various types of activities, I am sure there are a lot of things I should do, focus and do more, but "quitting" something ain't happening. I rather feel that what I consider to be "industrial noise", both as a sound, plus as worldview, is just so much more that just about anything there is.
I never quit listening other types of music, but indeed, I listen LESS of something. All music genres, I don't need to be listening daily, weekly, or even monthly. I like it, but I don't necessarily need to listen all types of music all the time. Noise, in other hand, since I discovered it, I was always into it. Maximum amount of not listening noise, is being in conditions where I do not have access to stereos or noise releases. That means, just days, maximum of couple weeks when simply being in conditions of not being possible to listen.
That said, even if I'd spend hours in day doing so, I get to do plenty of things BESIDES listening records, cds, and tapes.
I can't see myself "quitting noise", but if someone else does, and find something better, fine! To me, noise feels compatible to almost anything, so I am really puzzled to hear people moving away from noise for sake of "family" or "work" or whatever. As if you'd need to really make choise between those things?
As for being part of "scene" or being "visible", I dont think that matters so much.
