| Crass – Punk Is Dead Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I agree that punk pretty much means nothing now. It was supposed to be about self sufficiency. It never was just about the music, it really was a whole way of thinking about things. Building a strong community and making music for fun rather than profit, and staying away from big labels. It is inherently anti authoritarian and always tries to distance itself from the mainstream. It was never a haircut or a leather jacket adorned with badges. What punk (really) is and isn't is fairly simple but it is safe to say that since Crass' time, most of it really is dead. The music sounds the same but its just middle class kids trying to be edgy so they can feel part of some club. In a couple of years they'll go and get a desk job and forget about all of it. It never means anything to these kids. You start talking about politics, or the music industry, or about squatting or food not bombs or racism or feminism or workers rights or what ever, and you just get a canned response. To actual punks, this is what they live and breathe. To kids just looking for something to do it is just another image to take on so they can feel they are a part of something when they really aren't, because actually doing things takes effort. Dressing up and spiking up your hair is easy and calling yourself a punk is easy. And for the dumb kids that do make it onto MTV these days (looking at you, Green Day), they quickly forget all that anti-corporatism once they're feeding off the music industry. Now it's just safely-edgy songs about the Iraq war and some vague crap about how unfair everything is. Yeah, wear your fucking peace ring or what ever. I'm sure it's doing a lot of good. Useless bastards, every last one. |
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| Crass – If There Was No Government Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Yeah, I agree. What's being said here is "Well what if blah blah blah?" "Do it yourself if you want it so much. Sort it out and stop waiting for someone else to do it for you." Anarchism is something that must develop over time, you can't just force it one society by removing the government overnight. Of course it would be chaos, everybody's used to being ruled since day one. Authority acts as a crutch for us at the moment. That's why you DON'T do that. You start off small and work up. Besides, forcing anarchy on people is hypocrisy. |
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