The Mission

It is obvious through history and throughout our personal experiences, that anything extreme or different draws a lot of attention. Much of this attention is focused around the idea that people don’t understand what’s going on or simply dislike it. Parents of tckers interviewed on the Paris news stated that they didn’t mind their teenagers partaking in the movement and that they were good kids (some even staying out of trouble since joining the tecktonik movement). A unifying theme in the newscast, however, was of people’s lack of understanding. No one interviewed, especially the adults, seemed to know why tecktonik had come around or why it is such a fast growing subculture.
I am beginning to find more and more negative comments on youtube about tecktonik. What I failed to recognize in the first place is that it isn’t just Americans who dislike tecktonik and think it’s “gay” or Parisians who support it (“Vive le tecktonik!”); people of all backgrounds like and dislike tecktonik. For as many nasty comments about the videos, there are supportive comments refuting previous statements; I have identified nearly 10 different languages in the comments of these videos arguing back and forth with one another.
Perhaps it isn’t just Americans who need to be more open to new concepts, perhaps it’s human beings in general. Perhaps tecktonik just happened to find the least judgmental and open minded individuals in Paris and brought them together under one name, tecktonik (named for the different styles of dance and music coming together like the collision between the tectonic plates). Perhaps the spread of the movement is to similarly open minded people in other cities of Europe. After all, you can’t be convinced to like tecktonik; you either do or you don’t (this however does not mean that you can’t respect it as a dance form).

"The Mission" by DJ Tomcraft