“Everyone works together, it’s a self-policing environment, and everyone looks out for each other’s safety,” Saye said. Over an email interview, he shared his thoughts on the positivity that is exemplified in mosh pits, where those involved look out for the community. In this twisted, defying-logic way, people care for each other.Īaron Saye is the curator and lease owner of the Seventh Circle Music Collective, a DIY venue in Denver and the premier local venue for punk shows. If someone loses as shoe, it is the responsibility of the mob to locate it and hold it in the air for them to find. If someone falls down, everyone stops to help them up. Despite the fact that the point of jumping into the pit is to push, slam and bump into people, it is agreed that no one will go out of his way to hurt another. Underlying principles that have been forgotten in this age of hipster irony, apathy, and directionlessness.Īmidst the chaos of the pit, unwritten etiquette is created and agreed upon. Mosh pits should be seen as something that all of society can learn something from, as slam dancing incorporates many underlying principles that make up our society. Equal in ways that are impossible outside of the dark, beat pounding, environment of a punk rock music venue. While slam dancing, everyone is suddenly perfectly equal. Denton/CU Independent File)Īll of this is manifested in the mosh pit – the way people move to the sound of punk rock. Jacob Spetzler discusses how society can get back to its roots through mosh pit culture.

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