LoveEspresso@retrofed.com to Ask Solarpunk@slrpnk.netEnglish · 18 hours agoWhat does the word punk mean ?message-squaremessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
arrow-up19arrow-down1message-squareWhat does the word punk mean ?LoveEspresso@retrofed.com to Ask Solarpunk@slrpnk.netEnglish · 18 hours agomessage-square33linkfedilink
minus-squareMrSelfDestruct@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·13 hours agoPunks hated hippies. To punks, hippies were privileged kids that could always go home and get bailed out. Punks were treated like scum and fought for what they believed in.
minus-squarefaythofdragons@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 hours agoNot uniformly though, my partner’s mother was a hippie who got into the commune life after she aged out of foster care.
minus-squareLoveEspresso@retrofed.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoThat’s new, because where l am, l understand neither punks nor hippies. I simply know that for hippies, sex and drugs were the order of life.
minus-squareMrSelfDestruct@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 hours agoPunk life was more self destructive and art aligned. Politics, drugs, sex, art, poverty, and alienation made punk, at least in the early stages.
minus-squareLoveEspresso@retrofed.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoIf l say, “Poverty is the byproduct of capitalism,” does that make any sense to you ??
minus-squareLoveEspresso@retrofed.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 hours agoThese are features of the Western World, which l would never understand.
Punks hated hippies. To punks, hippies were privileged kids that could always go home and get bailed out. Punks were treated like scum and fought for what they believed in.
Not uniformly though, my partner’s mother was a hippie who got into the commune life after she aged out of foster care.
That’s new, because where l am, l understand neither punks nor hippies. I simply know that for hippies, sex and drugs were the order of life.
Punk life was more self destructive and art aligned. Politics, drugs, sex, art, poverty, and alienation made punk, at least in the early stages.
If l say, “Poverty is the byproduct of capitalism,” does that make any sense to you ??
These are features of the Western World, which l would never understand.