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Originally Posted by bladerunner
I hate to say it but everyone I've ever met (and believe me I know a lot of people who were big into the punk scene through my past life as a bmx'er in the 90's  ) who gets into this 'true punk' idea goes too far into exactly what punk shouldn't be - elitist and excluding. We even had a name for them at gigs we went to - the 'Punk Rock Elite' and they were always the same personality types. |
Well I'm sorry to break it to you, but I'm PRE and I'll stay that way.
Punk is not just music, it's a certain way of percieving life that the Sex Pistols never promoted. Being just anti-establishement is easy. You just have to say that the people who are holding the reins at the moment are bad and yelling "NO Future!".
Punk is caring about human rights.
Punk is caring about the environement.
Punk is caring about animals (and not eating them or using them as commodities).
Punk is seeing past appearences and seeing people for who they truely are.
Punk is fighting racism, bigotry, homophobia, sexism.
Punk is the D.I.Y approach.
Punk are initiatives like "Food Not Bombs" (go check it out, really heart-warming stuff).
Do you still think the Sex Pistols were punks ?