Plan It X "Making Punk a Threat Again!"

Day 1 of the "making punk a threat again" workshop at Plan it X Fest 2006

Category:

Education

Tags:

• punk
• plan
• it
• max
• levine
• ensemble

[AaBouncingBee]

The only way you're ever going to stop elitism in punk is when you quit labeling a philosophy of life as a fashion. These kids are just as ignorant and hypocritical as the people they judge.

[EnzoDragon]

I didn't see ONE punk in this entire video. Get the fuck out of here.

[corbinpeters15]

I like culture and society and stuff.

[Enemynarwhal]

I feel like I'm watching Portlandia.

[bankyandbrodie]

@keepthesockson i wasn't at this Plan-It-X fest, but i went to the one this past summer. i don't know if you are familiar with the fest, it's very small, but it is a punk festival. that is why the discussion was geared towards the scene itself, it is a 2-3 day event where punk ids from all over the country are in bloomington, indiana. i took this discussion to be the punk scene looking at itself critically. it was not a crimethinc convergence -although that literature was certainly available

[keepthesockson]

cont. If Propagandhi inspired you to go build schools in Africa then that's great but it doesn't have to be the case for everyone else who decides to try change something. You can't keep worrying about what isn't and is punk. Like that one girl who said redistributing wealth is just "perpetuating the system" . Well, what the fuck else do you wanna do then? Don't just shoot down ideas because there is a "system" involved. But overall good on them for trying to figure some shit out. 9:21

[keepthesockson]

Although there are some pretty pathetic arguments made here the people in the comments section telling these hippies that they will never change anything is 10x more pathetic. At least these kids are trying to do something, what the fuck have you done?  You just like thinking you are smarter than everyone else. The only advice I'd give to these kids is to stop worrying so much about using "punk" as the only medium for change.

[keepthesockson]

Hey guy at 5:15 you can make your point without saying fuck every other word. Oh wait that's not fucking punk

[GingerbreadCoffinx]

For me punk was never about changing the world. I just like going to gigs to hear some great music. They're over complicating it. It isn't an attitude. It isn't about having the biggest hawk or ten million silver studds on your jacket. It isn't about being an anarchist. It isn't a lifestyle. Go to gigs. Support your favorite bands. Maybe even try to start something yourself. If you can't support those who can. Most importantly, to quote Battalion of Saints, "Be yourself who cares what they say."

[CrawdaddyJoe]

Why does it have to be about punk? Why not transcend punk, stop trying to reach out to people as punks, stop trying to think of it as punk's threat to the establishment, and just shed the subculture and the identity? How about making working-class solidarity unionism, proletarian democracy, anti-kyriarchal mass movements, and revolutionary dual power a threat again? I've had my fill of drunken party-hardy punks. I'd rather dissociate from the term and the culture.

[ThisIsStupid1024]

Punx is hippies.