sXe The eighties much like the sixties and seventies posed many varied youth subcultures as a result of many transitions and changes in society. The youth were looked upon as misunderstood and with their “you will never understand” attitude they began to rely more on each other and their cultures. sXe (straight edge) came about in the early eighties when the punk scene was a great topic of controversy. As a subculture they held great …showed first 75 words of 1595 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1595 total…struggle” Lawrence Grossberg, Its a Sin: Essays on Posmodernism, Politics and Culture 1988, p175. It breaks down to mixing of various styles and ideas that have already been used in an attempt to achieve something different. I can’t say for sure that I believe individualism is dead, as this subject matter concludes, but as Fredric Jameson says we don’t just quote from the past we incorporate the past and in turn reuse the past.