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The skateboarding culture of today is so far removed from its subversive/punk rock roots, there is no point in even discussing it. Most of todays skaters seem to be one keg stand away from being the fratboy jocks who used to chase me and my "skater fag" friends arund 20+ years ago. Either that or they would have been playing in a hair metal band. Have you seen that show on eMpTyV about the whiny rich kid skater? Yeah, me neither. But apparently it's like Tony Hawk heads to The Hills.
It used to bother me a little that this culture which seemed to be so much about integrity had become everything it used to be against, but I am over it now. Or maybe I am wrong in being nostalgic about the good old days. Maybe all my skate punk heroes from yester-year just seemed to have integrity because there was no one handing them bags of cash.
