Summary: Punk and hardcore incubated into a powerful hybrid strain that flourished in several major cities but grew best in California where hope pretense beauty dystopia potential and disillusionment fused into an explosive genre of alienation unrestrained critique and open dissent that diverged from the happy pacifist movements that preceded it These genres became known for a Do It Yourself DIY approach that arose from the complete disbelief in existing structures and a broad skepticism of humanity Instead self reliance and hyper activism were seen as the way forward When everything around you fails and most people are content to live in a sterile insular artificial world anyone who wants more from life must create it themselves This same lack of systemic faith is voiced today in other forms such as home and private schooling that considers the public version a hopeless dead end organic food as a return to health and alternative to low quality mass chemical farming or the common desire for personal wealth so people can buy their way out of doomed systems of collective failure What you missed from 80s punk hardcore and related inspired disruptions August 10 2008 Punk and hardcore incubated into a powerful hybrid strain that flourished in several major cities but grew best in California where hope pretense beauty dystopia potential and disillusionment fused into an explosive genre of alienation unrestrained critique and open dissent that diverged from the happy pacifist movements that preceded it These genres became known for a Do It Yourself DIY approach that arose from the complete disbelief in existing structures and a broad skepticism of humanity Instead self reliance and hyper activism were seen as the way forward When everything around you fails and most people are content to live in a sterile insular artificial world anyone who wants more from life must create it themselves This same lack of systemic faith is voiced today in other forms such as home and private schooling that considers the public version a hopeless dead end organic food as a return to health and alternative to low quality mass chemical farming or the common desire for personal wealth so people can buy their way out of doomed systems of collective failure What you missed from 80s punk hardcore and related inspired disruptions August 10 2008
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