The Glade 4.0

I'm not sure what process one goes through when they decide to write a totally unsolicited monograph on a subject no one really wants to broach in academics, but I think I've reached that point. So, I'm putting this post here in advent I need to verbally eviscerate one of a select few posters for their errant predilections as aesthetes instead of scholars.

That said ...

Punk is dead.

Please stop over-using the term punk. In fact, please stop using the term punk. When I hear reference on NBC to "Steampunk" on the NBC Morning Show; you have gone too far. You have, in point of fact, given to the mainstream media a very curious and intellectually radical socio-cultural phenomenon of the last quarter of the 20th Century. We have been post-punk since 1985.

If need be, I am prepared to publish an entire book on this subject.

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Please do.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

I'd read at least the first chapter. It might get repetitive after that.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Can I still listen to the Misfits for horror punk?

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

I'd read it.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

I think you should find more significant matters to address.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Hmmm... Doompunk.

An interesting idea.

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Holy shitsnacks!

I think '86 is pushing it too early. But, yes. It's certainly been dead for a while, and now is invoked by things far too optimistic, cheery, and, dare I say it, mainstream to qualify in a desperate attempt to seem edgy and cool.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

We've had our differences, but I consider you a man capable of great wisdom and intellect. Why you desire to use that intellect to shake your fist at an apathetic world and tell them they are doing it wrong eludes me though.

Not saying you're always wrong. I guess I just don't think the same why you do. It's probably why we've been at odds so much over the years.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Cyberpunk is ok post-80s in my opinion...

I don't get at all why some people younger than me keep calling Green Day punk.

Green Day...Sex Pistols...Green Day?

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I don't get why some people called Limp Bizkit heavy metal.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

why would I buy the book? I get to come here and listen to Khross rant about it here for free ;->

Obviously the book isn't targeted at us. It's meant for other, less fortunate people who don't have the opportunity to listen to his rants.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

I hate seeing kids wearing a nice new Misfits or Dead Kennedy's shirt.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

It's alright; you wouldn't grok it anyway.

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Yes, your 60's terminology will undoubtedly flummox me.

I thought punk was created by Johnny Rotten to make money off easily influenced young people that wanted to make their parents angry? I never liked punk anyway.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Punk is/was stupid. Glad it's "dead".

It's not dead, it's evolved - like everything else. It's influenced and been influenced by other forms of music over time and has changed, been split into different directions, and/or been assimilated into other forms.

There is no purity in art.

*chuckles* Actually, simply doubt you would do the required legwork to read a monograph such as those I produce. It's not something that would provide you any immediate material or career-path benefit; consequently, the rational conclusion is you would neither understand nor benefit from anything I actually publish.

I have no illusions that my writing is for a very small niche market that does pretty much the same things that I do.

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I am listening to the best punk band ever right now.








T'Pau

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

What about hardcore? Didn't that word become meaningless in regards to describing pre-packaged subcultures with the advent of happy hardcore?

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

Double penetration?

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Because they are dumb.


Please see bolded comment above

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut