Mourn!

Mourn, ye mortals. Punk is dead. It's gone... it lives no more. Nor can I live without it.
- My MSN screen name

Righto. So. I'm in a discussion forum (actually not really, just the wiki on Elftown.com at a page called No Parking). Now, I'm a huge Green Day fan in addition to being a very open-minded person; I can understand if people don't agree with my views, if people don't like Green Day. But I cannot understand one who calls themself a punk who disagrees with the punkesque dogma. In essence, the way I've come to understand it through the classic gods of punk music like the Sex Pistols and the Dead Kennedys, punk means thinking for yourself. Direct quote (the song is Nazi Punks Fuck Off by DK). So you can't call Green Day's "American Idiot" album less punk than any of their other albums. In fact, more opinions, more calls to action, more desire to change the world, and more difference from current pop culture is captured in "Idiot". The fact that they did a rock opera in this time of emotionless, unfulfilling pop music is by itself a statement of their punkosity.

How can they laugh at my opinion and call themselves punk rockers? They defy the cause, the meaning, the founding dogma that the scene would have been founded on if indeed anyone had ever bothered to found it.

And yes, "punkosity" and "punkesque" are words.

>.> <.<

Right, fine. So I lied.