Punk Rock

It occurs to me that there is an upside to the return of the Soviet Union and the general slaughter involved. We'll have nuclear war threats and MAD again. And that means that we can have Punk Rock mean something again. The music of my youth was punk rock, new wave, and eventually techno, which I would describe as the eventual variation of classical, which tends to really confuse people. Consider: techno is repetitive, like classical. It uses variations on a theme, like classical. It has many parts, like classical, and tends to be long concerts like classical. The best techno has a woman singing, though she tends to be skinny from the drugs, rather than fat from the food. Different outcomes but similar idea. And to be fair, opera fans took drugs too, often belladonna.

Putin is an evil KGB colonel, and their job was torturing people to make them "confess". During the Olympics, the KGB was off killing anybody within a thousand miles who might strap on a bomb vest to attack the games. And the world applauded because nobody important died at the Olympics. Great. I wonder if some of those killed were just political enemies? That's how things usually work. Makes a great subject for punk rock, which is about shining a light on hypocrisy, in reveling in the incompetence and blundering evil of those in charge, in the mayhem and murder of a military slaughtering the foreigners, and the utter helplessness of being a target for nuclear weapons. Since that is coming back, should Punk Rock come back too?

Punk Rock got very popular during the economic collapse of the early 80's. Both in the USA and Britain. It tied us together in our shared apprehensions of nuclear hellfire. If you didn't fear the bomb, you weren't there, man.