Teen Gothic

That’s the thrust of his new book, “Goth: A History”: Goth isn’t a way of dressing or a genre of music, but a lens through which to see the world. Goth is for everyone, Tolhurst writes, and it’s not a “phase” one has to outgrow.

“My life in Goth served as a kind of communal reverse meditation,” Tolhurst writes. “By exploring the darkness of books, films, music, and paintings together, we escaped for a brief moment to better understand the place we all found ourselves in time and space. We kept floating but now (were) a little more liberated.”

I’ve quite literally said this very thing in my own way, and been shut down for it by the gatekeepers of this reddit. But, as an 80’s kid, this was my experience and not unlike founding Cure member Tolhurst, I still think goth is a big enough umbrella to shelter all darkly inclined people, imo. What are your thoughts, and what are based on?