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[The following is taken from a leaflet that was passed around Lawrence,
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Kansas sometime around 1986 or 1987]
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FUCK PUNK
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[by Tad Kepley]
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Dear friends....
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Punk Sucks. As every day goes by, it becomes more pathetic, choking itself
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on its' own puke, and I'm through with it.
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For several years, I've been involved in the "scene", and I'm tired. I give
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too much and get nothing in return. Oh, yeah, I've seen you all. Snotty
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rich kids hollering Anarchy, hyper-intelligent are farts quoting Sartre,
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"lower class" anally retentive nazis, just plain idiots, hipsters like
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me.....
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I've always claimed myself as a part of the "scene"...I'm sick of people
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who claim that they aren't part of the scene, yet still bleed off it to
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bandage their insecurity. That is Punk. People who are hip, yet not quite
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hip enough no not be hip...got that? If you don't, I'm sure there would be
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a million self-contradicting upper-middle-class hippies' kids to tell you
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what is up.
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Why should class even come into this? Because I'm nauseated by rich kids
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trying to act poor....it is almost as bad as poor kids trying to act
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rich...social class is a big part of the scene. The kids who don't have
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jobs, yet somehow seem to make it to every show and have huge record
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collections, and the whole while whining about social injustice and nuclear
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holocaust. They are secure, they can afford to worry about these things,
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not to mention their shitty little problems and their shitty little
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cliques, and shitty little mind games.
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Recently, some idiot told me how he wished "these people" would "stop
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acting like they're part of a subculture, punk's not important, it is too
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elitist. The hippies and beats were more...etc...etc...punk isn't a
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subculture, why don't these people realize they are just the same?" Why?
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Because there are people in the scene.
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Like any "movement" punk has its' rhetoric, some self-challenging, most
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not. And most "movements" weren't even that until someone was moved to make
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a movement. You can "believe" anything you want...you are only limited by
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your imagination. "The truth shall make you free," say squeamishly correct
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literary groupies, "and the more truthful you are, the freer you shall be."
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Bullshit. We are all liars, and we are all social critics, and you can
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only do your best, there is no such thing as perfection.
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I'm tired of people creating secure realities and then pretending they
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aren't a part of them, or becoming so much a part of them that they lose
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sight of what their "original goals" were. Wait a minute...what if the
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original goal was to lose track of goals?
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Punk is hierarchical and inherently fascistic. People don't form bands in
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the scene to "express themselves", politically or otherwise. They do it for
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that nice warm feeling you get when someone kisses your ass. It's who you
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know that matters, and the scene kings who proclaim it the loudest and most
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vociferously are that doctrines most addicted practitioners. Ass kissing is
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a drug. How are you going to change the world so you don't have to kiss ass
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by spending all your time doing nothing butt?
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Hey you punk "anarchists"...I call your bluff. Your anarchy isn't anarchy.
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It is deadpanarchy. A deadpan reactionism. Yes, I too can say "fuck you" in
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ten different languages, and I didn't pick it up from the little prince.
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Some of you did, and will spout "Kropotkin this, Bakunin that." So what.
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Pretty unanarchical of you to make fun of the people who come to the shows.
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I don't need this shit. I have enough problems without letting all this
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drag me down...this could go on forever...but it doesn't need to.
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The "scene" meant alot to me...and did a great deal for me. And I paid for
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my pleasure with jail terms, thousands of hours and dollars...and it isn't
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fun, and I'm no freer.
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Most of you who will be getting this are my friends. I haven't seem many of
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you in a long time, and many of you I've never seen. I'll still go to
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shows, and I'll still listen to the music, but punk and I are divorced.
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This doesn't need to go on. You all know the "truth" anyway...time for me
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to do the "hip" thing and move on.
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Divisively yours,
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Tad
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