I think it may be possible for people whose lives did not straddle pre- and post-punk to gain an understand what made punk what it was. It was not merely energy, nor rebellion, nor an accessible DIY style. It is not reducible to comprehensible terms. Many, many isolated people desperately needed punk and suffered from that need without knowing why, then, out of the blue they had punk. Without awareness of this experience, punk is just a stylistic option.

Anyone who doesn’t get it but wants to ought to see End of the Century – The Story of the Ramones.

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Business needs a punk revolution.