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Omar Haneef '96 ([email protected]) wrote:
> If punk is an anti-estabilishment attitude, and cyber- is a prefix that
> denotes the embracing of technology then cyberpunk should be an
> anti-estabilishment embracing of technology. However, I am not sure where
> the technology fits in with preventing punks from "rotting in their juices."
> i.e. if cyberpunk is like a technopunk with the fat trimmed then what part
> of the cyberpunk attitude helps the cyberpunk be more than "just" a punk?
There are definitely "anti-establishment" elements to traditional punks
but don't be fooled by what the "establishment" has told you about them.
Punks build community the same way anyone else does and most of the punk
groups I've had the pleasure to hang out with (usually centered around a
local band and not some national or international toy punk band) have had
very useful and productive relationship with the community at large.
The former leader of pgh's premiere punk outfit (Thin White Line) while I was
in school also managed the restaurant where we all ate lunch and where a
certain girl named Debi (Jer should know who I mean) was working as a
waitress and learning guitar chords. Last I heard she was still playing
and so was Thin White Line. Carsickness (another pgh band) existed for 15
years under different line-ups and finally ended up a Celtic Rock band
without changing the basic line-up one bit. They moved where they needed
to and did pretty well in the process. And there is no that these guys
were punks. Punk is not Sid and Nancy although Sid and Nancy were punks.
Throw away all of these media driven preconceptions you have about these
issues and get down where its happening. What angers people is that you
come at this issue, one that is by its very nature so personal and
individual, standing on one foot and demanding (yes, I believe that your
requests have had the character of demands) to be told te secrets of the
universe. A number of us have tried to explain it to you and someday
you'll understand that the way its been done has really been an attempt
not to ruin your own discovery of it for you. You've been treated gently
and with compassion (and with not a few insults, par for the course) and
have been given all of the clues. I don't think anyone would have wasted
their time if they didn't care (or if they did care for that matter).
My final suggestion here is to stop trying so hard, go out and find
yourself a girl who will always get you into trouble and who will always
pay your tickets and bail you out of jail (if needs be find a couple of
them), push the envelope of what is possible and survivable but never go
beyond what you can do at the moment (I know there's an inherent
discrepancy there.),and just do it.
Noone *CAN* explain cp to you.
You can only do that for your self and you'll know it when you get there.
.mpa
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