Punk's not dead? It [Poor language removed]' is.

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John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, from sex pistols fame is, as most of you know currently flogging country life butter.

Iggy Pop is shilling [Poor language removed] car insurance. (I'd sooner he came on to sell smack at least it would represent less hypocrisy)

good job half of the punk scene burnt up and died prematurely or they'd be sucking corporate cock and trying to brainwash into buying yet more of their [Poor language removed] we dont need.

there goes the promise of yet another generation.

still mine is worse. No-one [Poor language removed] shot bush or blair - that was our job.
 

I'm sure i read something not so long back from Lydon explaining why he is doing this advert but cant remember where i read it or what he said exactly.

But i think it was basically "punk" was just a slogan to sell itself to kids so was just as guilty as being corperate sell outs as anybody or anything else, and that even those who honestly believed in the ethos behind it eventually just changed their opinion and views of the world as they got older cause thats how people are.

Which is pretty much right really.
 
John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, from sex pistols fame is, as most of you know currently flogging country life butter.

Iggy Pop is shilling [Poor language removed] car insurance. (I'd sooner he came on to sell smack at least it would represent less hypocrisy)

good job half of the punk scene burnt up and died prematurely or they'd be sucking corporate cock and trying to brainwash into buying yet more of their [Poor language removed] we dont need.

there goes the promise of yet another generation.

still mine is worse. No-one [Poor language removed] shot bush or blair - that was our job.

John Lydon, the self-proclaimed anarchist that has a vast housing portfolio and sells Country Life butter. Figure that one out, 'cause I'm stumped.
 
I'm sure i read something not so long back from Lydon explaining why he is doing this advert but cant remember where i read it or what he said exactly.

But i think it was basically "punk" was just a slogan to sell itself to kids so was just as guilty as being corperate sell outs as anybody or anything else, and that even those who honestly believed in the ethos behind it eventually just changed their opinion and views of the world as they got older cause thats how people are.

Which is pretty much right really.

that's the way he is "justifying it' now. At the time it was meant to be different. As for those changing their view of the world as they got older - [Poor language removed] em.

Reminds me of a poem:

I read a book about John Dos Passos and according to
the book once radical-communist
John ended up in the Hollywood Hills living off investments
and reading the
Wall Street Journal

this seems to happen all too often.

what hardly ever happens is
a man going from being a young conservative to becoming an
old wild-ass radical.

however:
young conservatives always seem to become old
conservatives.
it's a kind of lifelong mental vapor-lock.

but when a young radical ends up an
old radical
the critics
and the conservatives
treat him as if he escaped from a mental
institution.

such is our politics and you can have it
all.

keep it.

sail it up your
ass.

Charles Bukowski
 
To be fair, you tend to change as you get older. I started via socialism to communism to anarchism, and finally settled as a liberal. :lol:
 

nowt wrong with liberalism - at least you didnt end up a tory.

Thank godness for that. One thing, though, is that I have accepted that even those on the right can make salient points. In my younger days, I tended to tow the line of whatever doctrine I followed.

Mind you, I'm still a punk at heart, albeit a 41 year old one! :D
 
There's still time. I'm working on him :P

Would be nice if the liberals of today were proper liberals though. Sadly many seem to be far too left wing for my liking. I don't think any party nowadays are proper small government liberals.

That's a good point, Bruce. Liberalism is a broad church and encompasses many different types of thought. What unites a true liberal, rather than a pseudo-liberal, is a focus on individual rather than community rights.

Of course, a tricky liberal can always approach the subject of individual rights via the idea that those rights are best realised in a climate in which community is cherished. It gets complicated after that. But see Rawls if you're into that sort of sneaky liberalism. :D
 
Thank godness for that. One thing, though, is that I have accepted that even those on the right can make salient points. In my younger days, I tended to tow the line of whatever doctrine I followed.

Mind you, I'm still a punk at heart, albeit a 41 year old one! :D

Count me in, or out .... err

*loosens tie and calls boss a tw*t.
 

And gobs on boss :D

Then goes home from work in nice car to listen to Clash albums, pogo out of the question due to weak knees, volume reasonable so as not to disturb neigbours, plans going out for a nice meal with friends at the weekend.

*breaks down and weeps for lost youth.
 
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