Punks are easily the most "we take ourselves way to seriously" elitist music/social scene in existince. I mean punks hate each other. They talk about all this equality between bands and their fans but its complete bs. They'll cut each other down or turn their backs on one another as soon as one of them fails to live up to their oh so high punk mantra.
The various social reasons that helped birth the music arent even experienced by 99% of "punks" in America anyways. Their almost all middle/upper classs suburbia kids. Their a total joke. If I had lived in england durring the 70's and:
A. wasnt part of the upper crust of society.
B. didnt have any future amidst a crippled economy other than maybe working in some crappy factory job just like my parents.
C. belonged to a delapidated empire that once ruled the world militarily and economically but was a shadow of its former self.
...I might have got into punk or might have become a part of the punk subculture....but I didnt.
I grew up happily in middle class suburbia and I refuse to dress like a vagrant, smell like crap, berate people who are'nt into my scene, berate other punks who "are'nt as punk as I am", act like I come from a hard lower class background, and genrerally act like a stuck up *A*hole all just because I have no personality of my own so I have to wear the banner of whatever social scene I frantically latch on to.
Thats why I'm so tired of hearing "punks" argue about bands, each other, blah blah blah. This isnt against anyone here on AO, this thread just kind of brought this stuff to mind. I go to art school so I hear this crap everyday.
I just dont think I can take seeing one more scrawny "punk", chains n all, give me that friggin' snear of superiority as he gets out of his brand new Jetta his parents bought him at the local Starbucks.
The various social reasons that helped birth the music arent even experienced by 99% of "punks" in America anyways. Their almost all middle/upper classs suburbia kids. Their a total joke. If I had lived in england durring the 70's and:
A. wasnt part of the upper crust of society.
B. didnt have any future amidst a crippled economy other than maybe working in some crappy factory job just like my parents.
C. belonged to a delapidated empire that once ruled the world militarily and economically but was a shadow of its former self.
...I might have got into punk or might have become a part of the punk subculture....but I didnt.
I grew up happily in middle class suburbia and I refuse to dress like a vagrant, smell like crap, berate people who are'nt into my scene, berate other punks who "are'nt as punk as I am", act like I come from a hard lower class background, and genrerally act like a stuck up *A*hole all just because I have no personality of my own so I have to wear the banner of whatever social scene I frantically latch on to.
Thats why I'm so tired of hearing "punks" argue about bands, each other, blah blah blah. This isnt against anyone here on AO, this thread just kind of brought this stuff to mind. I go to art school so I hear this crap everyday.
I just dont think I can take seeing one more scrawny "punk", chains n all, give me that friggin' snear of superiority as he gets out of his brand new Jetta his parents bought him at the local Starbucks.
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