Apparently (or even evidently) some people whose opinions I really appreciate think that techno music is some kind of spectacle. You must understand the term spectacle in this context as Guy Debord defined it in his Society of the Spectacle. I believe they think techno doesn't let you find yourself but draws you back from doing so and makes you forget the world's serious issues by paralyzing you and making you feel constantly happy or off your head (I guess the drugs normally associated with electronic music add to this conviction). I don't want to generally negate this perspective, there's certainly some truth in the cliché. But it's just one aspect of many and techno can be SO different from that as well. I think that in the past, techno might have missed out on being the lead of  a serious political movement but the culture has always been a subversive one. Techno is maybe the type of music most disembodied and therefore a great weapon against sexism, lookism, capitalism - at least when you think of it theoretically. It is very democratic in its structures as well. And have you ever seen so many people creating small (illegal) dance venues in public spaces like it happened the previous German summers (I must admit, I don't exactly know how it has been in the 90ies for instance, there has happened a lot as well I guess, but it occurs to me as if there's really a thing going on at the moment)? If this is a form of spectacle, it reveals the strategy to fight the spectacle at the same time.