Initially in England the word “punk” was used to describe women of easy virtue. In one of Shakespeare's plays, this word is found in precisely this sense. Later, they were called prisoners of the "lowest rank", and since the 70s of the XX century, musical groups appeared in the United States, which designated their work, and their way of life, like punk - "dirt, garbage". If you want to become a real punk, remember a few important truths and follow them.
Instructions
Step 1
Learn the history of the punk movement. Now a huge number of books have been published on this topic, many documentaries have been shot. If you just comb a mohawk, put on a leather jacket and ripped jeans, but you will not know anything about the spirit and ideas that gave rise to this style of clothing in due time, such a masquerade is worthless.
Step 2
Do not obey social rules and regulations. In your lifestyle, demonstrate alternative behavior, alternative ways of thinking and acting. In other words, be “different” in everything.
This can primarily be expressed in appearance.
Step 3
It is not necessary to look like heavy music fans. Music is just one of the attributes that characterize punk as a “person of dissent”. You can shock in different ways: dressing up in torn dirty jeans and a T-shirt of flashy colors, smashing shop windows and drinking alcohol in playgrounds, or you can protest in a different way, for example, refuse to wear fur and leather products in order to preserve endangered species of animals. And this will also be a protest against generally accepted norms and values. The main thing is to understand that punk is not driven by fashion, but by an idea.
Step 4
Change your lifestyle. If in the XX century the punk movement was moving with huge strides towards permissiveness, now the picture is changing. The manifesto of the 20th century rock movement proclaimed: "Sex, drugs and rock and roll!" And all the youth of that time at once began to master all these forbidden and such attractive attributes of a free life. What, then, should a modern young man who lives in a time when everything forbidden has ceased to be forbidden, but on the contrary - is massively cultivated, advertised, almost imposed? Really embark on an even greater spree? There seems to be nowhere further. Therefore, modern punks oppose themselves to the consumer society with the so-called "active non-participation" in the general race for pleasure, permissiveness, and licentiousness. Therefore, in the last decade, movements for a healthy lifestyle, the idea of ecovillages, a raw food diet and vegetarianism, a complete rejection of alcohol, drugs and even smoking have become very popular. This is how the youth of the 21st century show their disagreement.
Step 5
Live for today. Punk is someone who doesn't care about tomorrow. He lives in this moment and gets high from it. Completely immerse yourself in what you love, not letting anyone control you, prioritizing freedom of choice - these are the basic principles of any punk, and they do not depend on the era in which a person is born. Anyone can declare their disagreement with some aspect of human life, but only real punk can live in accordance with this idea of disagreement.
