Today's post is on something I do not and probably will not ever understand: mosh pits. I went to the Avenged Sevenfold concert a while back and saw enough of them to quench my appetite to ever consider joining one. Now, as one of my friends explained it to me, there are actually several different kinds of mosh pits but the ones I witnessed at this concert were mainly just a whole bunch of shoving each other around as much as possible, with the occasional left hook thrown in for good measure. I just can't understand in what state of mind one would think to their self, "I should definitely run in the circle of people and try and hurt someone else, even though I have the potential to get very hurt myself." For over an hour I watched a group of people bashing into eachother, running around, and overall just beating the living snot out of each other. Which I guess, if you're into that kind of scene might be kind of fun. (If you're crazy.)
The weird part came whenever someone got knocked down. Now, as I understood it, the point was to shove someone as hard as humanly possible; and yet, if someone got knocked down from the aforementioned huge shove, everyone would immediately go help that person get back up. I suppose that's a nice, considerate, humane thing to do, but come on, you're beating the tar our of each other and then you're surprised when someone might actually get hurt? Something doesn't add up here. I saw a guy come out of the mosh pit with his forehead cut open and bloody but does that discourage anyone in the slightest? Nope. Huh, I guess it just promotes the survival of the fittest in both intelligence (for those who avoid mosh pits) and strength (for those who survive them).
The weird part came whenever someone got knocked down. Now, as I understood it, the point was to shove someone as hard as humanly possible; and yet, if someone got knocked down from the aforementioned huge shove, everyone would immediately go help that person get back up. I suppose that's a nice, considerate, humane thing to do, but come on, you're beating the tar our of each other and then you're surprised when someone might actually get hurt? Something doesn't add up here. I saw a guy come out of the mosh pit with his forehead cut open and bloody but does that discourage anyone in the slightest? Nope. Huh, I guess it just promotes the survival of the fittest in both intelligence (for those who avoid mosh pits) and strength (for those who survive them).
