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A punk might have an anarchistic attitude but we don't associate the punk with the academic philosopher who defines and analyses his terms. The academic philosopher is expected to examine arguments dispassionately. Punks don't do dispassionate and, in their punkish manifestations, they don't question themselves. The punk knows his own raw experience and expresses his feelings in his dress, his music, his words. This makes him more interesting to the media than the intellectual who analyses, dithers and doubts.. |
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Designers and advertisers may appear to endorse the punks anarchistic views. But their brand of anarchism is libertarian and opportunistic. Street punks do not regard themselves as having opportunities, hence the appeal of the slogan 'No future' . This is fatalism - they do not perceive the possibility of choice and changing things themselves. Punks are Schmuddelkinder, Lumpen, Chaoten, the despair of Marxist ideologists. Punk appears a negative, destructive movement. Yet it attracts not only those who feel doomed to despair, it also fascinates the bohemian elite for whom it provides resources for display and self promotion. But if fashion designers and media people exploit punk, they also keep its spirit alive so that socially excluded punks have a sense of their own exclusiveness because they are the 'real' punks. |
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