Saturday, January 21, 2006
Research: Punk
Punk music: The Sound of the Suburbs – angry music coming up from the streets. Or was it?
Papers just released by the government reveal that the so-called punk music wasn’t as rebellious as it seems, and was, in fact, part of a long-term government strategy to alienate young people, preparing them for long, pointless, lives doing menial jobs.
This highly successful plot owes a great deal to the talents of The Honourable Joseph Strummer and the Third Earl Jonathon Rrotten-Smyth, who were amply rewarded with small islands in the Caribbean, with their good friend Sir Sidney Ruff-Vicious who faked his own death in the publicity stunt to end them all.
In the words of Rrotten-Smyth: "Ever get the feeling you've been had?"
Papers just released by the government reveal that the so-called punk music wasn’t as rebellious as it seems, and was, in fact, part of a long-term government strategy to alienate young people, preparing them for long, pointless, lives doing menial jobs.
This highly successful plot owes a great deal to the talents of The Honourable Joseph Strummer and the Third Earl Jonathon Rrotten-Smyth, who were amply rewarded with small islands in the Caribbean, with their good friend Sir Sidney Ruff-Vicious who faked his own death in the publicity stunt to end them all.
In the words of Rrotten-Smyth: "Ever get the feeling you've been had?"
# posted by Alistair Coleman @ 12:13 am 
