hidingbush said:

Can it be said that punks are angry but redirect the anger toward peaceful goals? Is punk a philosophy?

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BeefExtreme said:

Ive always found myself in the company of punks.  I dont really listen to punk music regularly.  god i mostly listen ambient stuff.  piano artists lately.  african jazz.  sub saharan rock.  ethiopian jazz is fucking killer.  lots of brazillian samba stuff.  lately been into some 1950's mexican rumba.  whatever gets my goat, ya know? I dont really have a ton of visible tattoos. 

i settled as being identified as a punk when i was in middle school or highschool.  i skateboarded and listened to neutral milk hotel.  it was just the people that took me in.  Later the same people became radicalized.  educated.  the girl with a pink mowhawk back then now just finished her doctoral dissertation for political science last month.  I sent her a really dorky congratulations card.  the guys that drank 40's and skated the gap at red lobster all night with me are now barred lawyers and work for non profits in immigration litigation. 

the truest punk i know is behind the scenes running a multi-million dollar grassroots non-profit that is presently putting  local fascist politicians out of a job, and shes quiet about it.  no social media.  no tattoos.  nothing that would identify her as a "punk" or an "anarchist" but she taught me everything i know about real anarchy, and how it is for lovers, no fear-brained little dog people..

not sure what she listens to.. dont think she listens to music tbh.  i think she basiclly just works her tits off and then likes to spend her time in a river raft going dowm the grand canyon and climbing walls of ice and shit.  she wears cowboy boots.

punk is what you are when you realize that animism makes sense and anarchy is what you believe in when you realize all the systems that came after animism were logically predestined to fail.  like the egyptians, the moores, the romans, the greeks. the assyrians! the babelonians! 

Never jived with "hippies" much.  most of them are really just progressives that have more platitudes and bumper stickers than books on shelves.  my punk friends book collections typically weigh more than the cars they may or may not own. 

🎼its in a book.  just take a look.  its reading rainboooooooow 🎶

ya i dont hate gc and he couldnt upset me if he tried.  i just kinda want him to read books and stfu.

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