𝐩fᵣAs a 40-year-Old punk myself, this article by @Daojoan at @theindex really resonated with me. I was always the kind of Optimist in the crowd surrounded by the status signaling pessimists.
The "death declarations as territory marking" feels so true as I remember my younger years in the late 90's and early 2000's punk scene. I was kind of devastated to 'find out' that punk was dead, just as I was starting to find my place in it. Turns out its not dead, and never was, just littered with old pessimistic farts who refuse to die themselves.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/everything-is-dead-and-we-killed-it/
Everything is Dead and We Killed It.
SaaS is dead. Punk is dead again, for approximately the four hundredth time since Sid Vicious actually died in 1979. Rock is dead. The novel is dead. Cinema is dead. Blogging is dead. Privacy is dead. Expertise is dead. Irony is dead. We have collectively decided that the most interesting