I'm curious, where do we fit in the grand scheme of things? For example, the rock phenomenon is theorized to have become a thing because it was a time of prosperity where everyone wanted to let loose, reject traditional mores and party till they drop because the war was won. Free love!

Hip-hop they say became popular because it resonated among the struggles of today's youth with poverty and an ever more apparent downward spiral. The music stylizes contempt and the desire to prove ones capability to survive in a fucked up world. The Punk scene is similar.

Electronic dance/techno/trance has become mainstream but has not hit critical mass. Why do we love our music? What is the political environment that created our subculture? Why do we exist?

What kind of environment must it be to enable us to replace hip-hop as the #1 preferred genre?

Likely, our individual experiences is understanding the experiences of others. Otherwise, we would not understand ourselves, and we would not be able to progress, not survive, in the world.

I don't understand, you're saying empathy created the trance scene?

I think our individual experiences created trance music, and music in general. I don't think politics are involved.

Listening to other people's music is like going into someone else's experiences.

More like empathy as in listening to other people's music and liking it, and those with more empathy will like trance music.

I disagree that politics aren't involved. Neither genres nor tastes poof into existence. There's a reason for everything.