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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Re: Teenage Punks, Senile Adults
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Date: Sat, 4-May-85 11:48:04 EDT
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> 
>  This is all quite true.  It seems as though most people I know
>  that use coke are rich yuppies or insecure adults.  The 'punks'
>  I know may be a little insulted by the world but most of them are
>  not into the drug counter-culture.  I have to thank the 'punks'
>  (odd word choice) for removing societies judgemental eyes away 
>  from the 'long-hairs' ('hippies' or whatever).  Now the punks are
>  the 'druged-out juevinial (sp?) delinquints (sp?, I'm doing
>  well)'.  
> 			     

	I have to laugh ! I was sitting on the bus yesterday with a friend
who is a peace activist, among other things, and part of that generation
that in the sixties ironed their hair and perturbed their elders so 
greatly. We saw a young woman on the street with a curiously shaved hair
style and a punk outfit, and she was commenting on how strange it was.
I thought this was really funny, as I pointed out that in her youth she
was trying to achieve the same effect, basically. the effect being, sticking
a thunb in the older generation's eye, of course. Most of the punks I
know dress the way they do because they completely eschew their parent's
materialist values, and alot of them think that the world will probably end
tomorrow (in a radioactive flash) so they are pretty nihilistic too. Some
of them are violent, but almost all of them are down on drugs because that's
what the materialist, dulled-out adult world is into.
-- 
  

jcpatilla

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