ultimate example of the rebellious attitudes that are so vital to it). The ideology of punk, underneath the layers of angst, grunge, and vulgarity is truly beautiful. In its deepest heart, Punk is about hope, human beings coming together to create a community, to cause a change, to be a part of something bigger, to do better than those who came before, and to fight or convert any who dare to stand in the way.
Vonnegut would likely find the misanthropy of early Punk music to be off-putting, as can be seen by comparing his ideas about love to the anger and hate that was common in Punk lyrics at the time. However, the love-centric revolutionary dream of Folk-Punk would likely be some-thing that Vonnegut would agree with.
Dreams of freedom, anarchism, individualism, and utopia are what started Punk. Each new iteration of Punk, be it Folk-Punk, Crust Punk, or Power Violence, will continue to rebel against the negative precepts of that which came before. Punk will never stop evolving, it will never stop changing.
Kurt Vonnegut would likely appreciate the dreams of a community that form that the core of Punk ethos. Though he would likely be disturbed by the anger and violence of Punk, Vonnegut would agree with the radical and left-leaning politics. Folk-Punk contains all of the things that Vonnegut would agree with a punk about (revolution, humanist philosophy, radical politics, etc.), and none of the things that he would find distasteful (hate, violence, etc.). In fact, Vonne-gut’s writing is directly quoted by Andrew Jackson Jihad in the song “Personal Space Invader” when they sing