Initially, in England, the word "punk" was used to refer to women of easy virtue. In one of Shakespeare’s plays, this word is found in that sense. Later they called prisoners of the "lowest rank", and since the 70s of the XX century, musical groups appeared in the United States that designated their work, and their lifestyle, like punk - "dirt, garbage." If you want to become a real punk, remember a few important truths and follow them.
Instruction manual
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Learn the history of punk movement. Now a huge number of books on this topic have been published, many documentaries have been shot. If you just comb the mohawk, put on a leather jacket and ripped jeans, but you don’t know anything about the spirit and ideas that gave rise to such a style of dress at one time, such a masquerade is worthless.
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Do not obey public rules and regulations. Demonstrate alternative behavior, an alternative way of thinking and action in your lifestyle. In other words, be “different” in everything.
This can primarily be expressed in appearance.
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It’s not necessary to look like fans of heavy music. Music is just one of the attributes that characterize punk as "a person of dissent." You can shock in different ways: dressing in ripped dirty jeans and a shirt of flashy flowers, breaking windows and drinking alcohol at playgrounds, or you can protest differently, for example, refuse to wear fur and leather products to preserve endangered animals. And this will also be a protest against generally accepted norms and values. The main thing is to understand that punk is controlled not by fashion, but by an idea.
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Change your lifestyle. If in the 20th century the punk movement moved with enormous strides towards permissiveness, now the picture is changing. The 20th century rock manifesto proclaimed: "Sex, drugs, and rock and roll!" And all the youth of that time at once began to master all these forbidden and such attractive attributes of a free life. What is to be done to a modern young man who lives at a time when everything forbidden has ceased to be forbidden, but on the contrary is massively cultivated, advertised, almost imposed? Really embark on an even greater spree? Further, it seems, there is nowhere. Therefore, modern punks oppose themselves to the consumer society with the so-called "active non-participation" in the universal race for pleasure, permissiveness, licentiousness. Therefore, in the last decade, movements for a healthy lifestyle, the idea of eco-settlements, a raw food diet and vegetarianism, a complete rejection of alcohol, drugs and even smoking have become very popular. Thus, the youth of the XXI century shows their disagreement.
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Live for today. Punk is the one who doesn't care about tomorrow. He lives this moment and catches a buzz from him. To completely immerse yourself in your favorite business, not to let anyone control yourself, to put freedom of choice above all - these are the basic principles of any punk, and they do not depend on the era in which a person is born. Everyone can declare their disagreement with some side of human life, but only real punk can live in accordance with this idea of disagreement.
Helpful advice
Take your time to join all sorts of youth associations proclaiming the ideas of the punk movement - freedom and disobedience. First, figure out what exactly this or that group does. Many unite simply on the basis of the usual disengagement from social duties, veneration of bad habits or unmotivated vandalism.
