Updated 2 years ago
The Scarred Veteran – The trance and psychedelic scene in general has always been a haven for those seeking to escape from reality or their bodies (see also: The Trancegender) but America in particular has a small but growing contingent of military veterans who see trance as a salve for their neurological wounds via PTSD. Faced with a stark choice any rational person would follow – do I wait for the feds to finally give me legal E, or do I find it myself? – Scarred Veterans can be either depressively ultradocile, reliving some feverish Saigon dream by taking advantage of the complete lack of order, discipline and hierarchy and disappearing in a haze of chillums, heroin, alcohol and/or ketamine,
OR…
going full Al Jourgensen and going completely manic batshit crazy, taking the lead in event organizing as if this was a some desperately FUBAR’d military operation in Kabul and brandishing assault rifles in their DJ set/livestreams. I am so glad our little scene can do its part in patching the holes left by a defunded VA. #MAGA
The Trancegender – locked in a body they did not choose, part of their self-imposed pre-op therapy involves diving into out of body experiences and psychotropic fantasy. Cross-dressing Antipodean Spacetriber Ollie Wisdom was the pioneer, and as the gender spectrum has hit the mainstream, it’s just not that edgey anymore to don a tie dye kilt or wear makeup.
https://tranceam.org/trance/trancespotting/
