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Just nitpicking here, but it's not really a weaker claim. Either it's the future of dance music, or it's not. The future of dance music is the same for everyon

Just nitpicking here, but it's not really a weaker claim. Either it's the future of dance music, or it's not. The future of dance music is the same for everyone. Or maybe they mean, what nerds think the future of dance music is.

tokenizer 13y ago
I'd go even farther than you are. By claiming "if you're a nerd", they're creating a class distinction where one group can and does ascertain truth, while the "others" cannot and will not. So not only is it the future of dance music, but you'll only know if your privilege and knowledge can allow you to. A modern day hermetics of sorts. But you know, thats just, my opinion man...
- tesseractive 13y ago
  One possible interpretation is that the scene is completely awesome as long as you're capable of coding and thus being one of the real participants, but that it's less interesting for pure spectators. Thus, for music coders -- "nerds" -- it is the future, but for non-nerds, there are more appealing alternatives.
dragonwriter 13y ago
> Just nitpicking here, but it's not really a weaker claim. Yes, it is. > Either it's the future of dance music, or it's not. This statement excludes many possibilities. > The future of dance music is the same for everyone. This is not necessarily true. Different subcultures can, and often do, have different dance music. Its quite possible for the "future of dance music" to be different for different subcultures. EDIT: Though, there are multiple different plausible interpretations of "This is the future of dance music (if you're a nerd)", and I've been focussing on the interpretation that could be rephrased as "This is the future of dance music for nerds". Other possibilities include "This is what nerds see as the future of dance music" and the distinct-but-closely-related "If you believe that this is the future of dance music, you must be a nerd". In those other cases, its not a weaker claim but a completely different claim than the plan "This is the future of dance music" claim.
coldtea 13y ago
>Just nitpicking here, but it's not really a weaker claim. Either it's the future of dance music, or it's not. The future of dance music is the same for everyone. Nope. Dance music has what we call "genres" (and target groups). Nothing will be the future of ALL dance music, except if all people decide to adopt one dance genre.
anigbrowl 13y ago
The future of dance music is to get even more fragmented. There have been many scenes in the past and there will be more in future that never get near radio or festival stages.

tokenizer 13y ago

I'd go even farther than you are. By claiming "if you're a nerd", they're creating a class distinction where one group can and does ascertain truth, while the "others" cannot and will not. So not only is it the future of dance music, but you'll only know if your privilege and knowledge can allow you to. A modern day hermetics of sorts. But you know, thats just, my opinion man...

tesseractive 13y ago
One possible interpretation is that the scene is completely awesome as long as you're capable of coding and thus being one of the real participants, but that it's less interesting for pure spectators. Thus, for music coders -- "nerds" -- it is the future, but for non-nerds, there are more appealing alternatives.

dragonwriter 13y ago

> Just nitpicking here, but it's not really a weaker claim. Yes, it is. > Either it's the future of dance music, or it's not. This statement excludes many possibilities. > The future of dance music is the same for everyone. This is not necessarily true. Different subcultures can, and often do, have different dance music. Its quite possible for the "future of dance music" to be different for different subcultures. EDIT: Though, there are multiple different plausible interpretations of "This is the future of dance music (if you're a nerd)", and I've been focussing on the interpretation that could be rephrased as "This is the future of dance music for nerds". Other possibilities include "This is what nerds see as the future of dance music" and the distinct-but-closely-related "If you believe that this is the future of dance music, you must be a nerd". In those other cases, its not a weaker claim but a completely different claim than the plan "This is the future of dance music" claim.

coldtea 13y ago

>Just nitpicking here, but it's not really a weaker claim. Either it's the future of dance music, or it's not. The future of dance music is the same for everyone. Nope. Dance music has what we call "genres" (and target groups). Nothing will be the future of ALL dance music, except if all people decide to adopt one dance genre.

anigbrowl 13y ago

The future of dance music is to get even more fragmented. There have been many scenes in the past and there will be more in future that never get near radio or festival stages.