tohm's history of punk music

When I got my mohawk, people started commenting that I looked 'really punk' In hindsight I should have expected this as a uniform.
Except in hindsight I am far-sighted, I look further back in the mohawks history to mohicans, actual warriors. The mohawk is also very practical for a receding hairline as one's forehead hair tapers into a point over their late 20s.
Anyway, I resent being associated with punk, that my dress sense might evoke punk sensibilities and imply some membership is purely coincidental. The only crowd in my book less impressive than the punk crowd is the stoner crowd.
People associate punk with uncompromising rebelliousness, raw musical energy, lifting the middle finger to society in general.
Maybe that's true or it isn't it seems a pretty fair impression of what 'People' think punk is.
To me though, when you cut through all the bullshit, punk is about lifting the middle finger to actual musicians.
To me the defining aspect of punks popularity is that it really is a genre where becoming a member of it is as simple as buying the necessary instrument.
Refinements have occured over time, punks hard fast drumming has evolved into one of the harder forms. A punk practicioner of the modern era may even have to know upwards of three chords on their guitars. Occasioanally a punk bassist might have to use two fingers to play.
But in my mind, punk as its practiced today involves some rich kid deciding they want to e a rockstar like the people on TV. They then proceed to their local music store and buy a guitar.
Now in the 60's this may have occured when you watched people like Jimmy Page or Eric Clapton soloing in ear splitting concerts. Their wildly long hair, convoluted clothing and ear splitting mind bending solos setting your tastebuds on fire.
Imagine your dissapointment when it turns out to be pretty hard to extract such sounds from your newly purchased guitar.
Fear not! Punk is here. You can just pick up your instrument and thump out some repetative chord progression, and then whine about how dissapointed you are with society in general.
The Sex Pistols may have been legitimately socially dissaffected youth. But punk is populated by people who's musical development was arrested. And some how punk serves to allow these people a financially viable profession.
In that way, punk to me is the ULTIMATE form of consumerism, maybe Guitar Hero III is the penultimate, but seriously punk allows anyone to simply purchase the rock star lifestyle, and the commodification of said lifestyle means that the people who really do struggle to be the best at what they do, that lock themselves in attack space for a year trying to make their guitar sound like 'electric jelly bread' are forgotten for cheap disposable image.
Imagine the same being in effect for an event like the 100m sprint. Where youth were pandered to in the belief that golden track shoes would some how make you really really fast and not a certain genetic disposition, full time training and maybe designer steroids.
Then I imagine we'd be watching a bunch of white kids with spikey gelled up hair lumbering down the track with cigarrettes in their mouth completing times like 38.6 seconds and the gold going to the one who looked the most coolest or some shit.

I have a rule for sympathy, I can be sympathetic with a person who lacks ability right up to the point that they get paid, and take the fucking money.

As for those sonic engineer/wizards that have become increasingly irrelevant in todays industry, the true future of rock. I have a plan.