What Makes a “New Punk”?

I’m not in the business of telling you who to be. If you want to spend your life smoking weed and being too sophisticated to be interested in anything, that’s not my concern. You get what you ask for in life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing. Pretty simple equation.

My only interest is in the ones who want more. They want meaning. They want solutions to the incredible mysteries of life.

Everything I have to offer is for the small troupe of young’uns who are curious.

You’ll learn a lot about what happens in New Punk City. Discipline, danger, and desperate deeds. Motorcycles, fast cars, boats, planes, plots, and places to live in and under you’ve never dreamed of. But you don’t have to be here to be a New Punk.

All you have to do:

— Don’t ever be bored. Boredom is not sophistication; it’s proof of no imagination.

— Don’t be a conformist. Which is tricky. Every F-bomb you utter because you can’t think of a truly descriptive adjective makes you a conformist. Same with your giant little boy shorts, backward baseball caps, tattoos, stupid haircuts, not knowing anything, never caring who might be listening to your loutishness. None of this makes you an individual. It only makes you an asshole. New Punks are not assholes.

— Don’t live in a silo. Which is the hardest thing. Everything now is about making you exist solely in a silo. You know one thing well, but you can’t talk about that thing to anyone who knows other things. What is the one thing? Who cares? Pussy, video games, weed, hockey, social justice? Doesn’t matter. That whole list is its own silo. The silo of me pretending to be somebody cool. Other silos. Lawyering, doctoring, businessing, computering, cell phoning, everything that looks out more than in. Your color, your sexual obsessions, your political obsessions, your digital networking, your preeminent intellectual icon (Ayn Rand, Ron Paul, BLM, Antifa ,  they’re all silos). And they WILL kill you.

Things a New Punk needs to know: Everything. Physics, cosmology, math, literature, history, architecture, art, music (not just Top 40 or blues or rock or jazz or opera or classical or clarinets or Stratocasters but everything), And all the sciences that haven’t been subverted by politics, including but not limited to chemistry, biology, zoology, crypto-zoology, archeology, anthropology, astronomy, astrology, RE-LI-GI-ONS, psychology, media (and all their tricks), and most important of all, Working. You know (or you don’t), driving a truck, refitting your house, fixing the plumbing, mowing the lawn, growing the garden, decorating the interrrieeeurr of your house, and knowing when to leave off the learning and go to GD War.

Where we are now.

What follows is a long list of sources you’re all probably too bored and sophisticated to care about. Fine. Life is like that. Some of us are curious. And some of us are so stupid there’s no chance of fixing it.

I have 50 links worth of science and speculation and why everything is still up in the air. Just waiting a few days. Quantum 19 is the world’s biggest and most demanding bitch. She knows you don’t want to know. Anything.

Stand by for oceans of science tutorials. There will also be lots of stuff about actually living in New Punk City. Seriously. Blogger doesn’t let you order things. Why I’ve waited so long to yell at you. I’ve got 50 mind-blowing posts to show you. But you’re too busy obsessing about New York State politics. Have I shown you my Other list? Thought not.