The Wonderful Witty of Was

A lot of things make me angry. The general dumbing down of people in Britain for example.

We are genuinely getting more and more stupid. Why do you think that is?

Well, a lot of people seem to blame the hippies. All that free love and free thinking - what good could ever come out of that eh?

Fuck off. I blame the punks. The 70s "i don't care" attitude. The hippies genuinely DID care. Look at all the sit-ins, protests and mayhem rife throughout that peace and love generation. Wierd when you look back...

The love generation...when what you had around you was a big fucking war that never made sense, if you were black you were third rate. Women could only just fuck without being made to feel guilty over it - and Mods and Rockers regularly knifed, kicked and punched the fuck out of each other.

Peace and love man - peace and love!

Back to the punks...

I fucking hated that youth movement - gobbing, being "desolate and wasted". Bullshit. Kids rebelling against the establishment yeah? Yet, the biggest band to come out of that, the Pistols, signed for major record companies - took a shit load of money, yet sung about "no future"...well, signing for a million quid is a pretty comfy future if you ask me.

Surely as soon as you took the shilling, you were a sell out? You became "the establishment"? And just cos you can say "dirty fucker" live on tv - well, that's hardly new. It was in fact, done in the 60s before. Nothing knew (sic) about that.

So, the punks, that ethos of not caring, of destroying the establishment. Of rebelling and not doing as you're told by "the man". What happened to those people? For me, there's nothing sadder than a middle aged goth or punk.

Punks grew up, got jobs, got pregnant and got mortgages. Became like everyone else for the main. Just another phase of excitement - all that spunk and anger turned to piss and vinegar. As they had kids; giving them a "couldn't care less" attitude. Those kids grew up with not much to look up to, they saw their parent(s) spout rhetoric about anti this, anti that. Where did it get them?

I think it helped create the chav. A different uniform, a different music, but still the "fuck you guv" attitude. Taking what they want, without giving much back. Selfish, egocentric - even if they couldnt spell the word. Shit music, shit people, shit lives.

Be careful what part of youth culture you choose to join people, you could end up ruining your kids. To be a true rebel - you'd surely not join any movement at all?