When I was seventeen, without any proper schooling, I was affected by the misery and wretchedness of life, as was the Buddha when in his youth he caught sight of sickness, old age, pain and death ... the result for me was that this world could not be the work of an all-bountiful, infinitely good being, but rather of a demon who had summoned into existence creatures in order to gloat over the sight of their anguish and agony.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Punk at this time — before the Clash essentially — was not fixed in a standard left-wing stance but was, rather, a defiant and stylish boho response to the modern world of inertia and consumption. As Jon Savage points out, ‘Punk was informed by utopian anarchism in its most recent form, the Situationists.’ This not-uncommon notion is affirmed in this book by psychogeographer Tom Vague in his piece ‘King Mob Echo,’ which points out the intense associations between punk and the Situs.
Prompted by Situationism, punks were not interested in restructuring economic systems, but in how fast modern society could be destroyed. Cool, or what! They were entirely reasonable in their demands for the impossible. They were not in the least afraid of the ruins. They wanted to sabotage the Spectacle… before it had sunk in that, as postmodern theorists had pointed out, the very idea of such subversion was a childish chimera.
Punk Is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night by Richard Cabut
Prompted by Situationism, punks were not interested in restructuring economic systems, but in how fast modern society could be destroyed. Cool, or what! They were entirely reasonable in their demands for the impossible. They were not in the least afraid of the ruins. They wanted to sabotage the Spectacle… before it had sunk in that, as postmodern theorists had pointed out, the very idea of such subversion was a childish chimera.
Punk Is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night by Richard Cabut
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