Stevo: The circle goes like this: our redneck skirmishes are cheap perversions of conventional warfare. War implies extreme government because wars are fought to enforce rules or ideals, even freedom. But other people ideals forced on someone else, even if it is something like freedom, is still a rule; not anarchy. This contradiction was becoming clear to me in the fall of ‘85. Even as early as my first party, “Why did I love to fight?” I framed it, but still, I don’t understand it. It goes against my beliefs as a true anarchist. But there it was. Competition, fighting, capitalism, government, THE SYSTEM. That’s what we did. It’s what we always did. Rednecks kicked the shit out of punks, punks kicked the shit out of mods, mods kicked the shit out of skinheads, skinheads took out the heavy metal guys, and the heavy metal guys beat the living shit out of new wavers and the new wavers did nothing. What was the point? Final summation? None.

This was dumb. Watching it makes my face hurt. Why are there so many needles and beatings? The ideas weren’t anything new, and the irony was stupid. I fell asleep, too.

I watched this with Christine, Amanda, and Whitney.

This was awful. Disjointed and the timeline was off. The kid was supposed to have already graduated college in 1984 but his dad said that he was in college “ending the war” with would have been impossible. The kid would have been born in roughly 1966 and since the dad was a lawyer, I some how doubt he had a kid in high school. It was also very predictable. I knew he was going to leave the punk lifestyle from the moment he opened his mouth. I also wish it had more to do with being punk in a Morman culture. It really could have been set any where in the midwest. And frankly, I was impressed with the number of punks, mods and other fringe groups in Salt Lake City. I live in a much less religious large city and we have nothing like that.