A POST-CRINGE THEORY OF PSYCHEDELIC SPIRITUALITY IN THE RAVE SCENE

My first essay for Harvard tackles why rave culture is becoming so cringe

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I’ve been using the word “cringe” a lot to describe parties in the rave and psychedelic scenes. The term seems particularly useful to describe much of …