Episode #30: The "Punk" Ethos & Why Need An Underground Punk Movement More Than Ever

In this episode I'm exploring the idea or the ethos of "punk," delving into the spirit of the word itself, what it means for us, and where we go to find it. I imagine the idea of punk as being an underground movement, primarily. This corresponds with mythic ideas of depth and the underworld. Punk as an idea and as a movement presents an adverse response to the values and ideas of our upperworld lives, where we live and work. Whatever directions our upperworlds are moving, along with whatever ambitions we ourselves have planted there, the punk impulse wants to move into the opposite direction. In the middle of one of the most tumultuous and chaotic moments in the history of our species, the idea of punk may provide as with an answer to the darknesses of the upperworld other than fear or despair. It shows us, rather, its own form of darkness down in the depths, where we remember our roots, and perhaps where we must look to in order to reclaim our own humanity in a world where hatred, division, and the will to power over all others feels like it is winning the day.