The True Meaning of Punk

Punk is a sort of music isn't it? It's a fashion style, with safety pins, and black, and psycho colours, right?
Punk used to be a statement of individuality. It used to mean something, rather than just being seen as a genre, or a popular sense of fashion, or even just being seen as 'cool'.
Punk was created so that people who were true individualists had a way of saying "this is me, im here, im different, and i dont give a damn what you think". i myself strive to have the same mindset, but the problem is that punk was too cool. Other people caught on to being 'individual', and copied what individual people were wearing, and listening to, therefore eliminating what the true purpose of individuality is- to be yourself, not the typical idea of cool.
So really, punk was destroyed as soon as the idea of being individual spread to the cool, awesome popular people.
Nowadays, punk is thought of as a genre of music, or a band, or a style, but all of these things are just a shadow of the past, a shadow of all that punk stands for.
It's like some people were trying to show off their true selves, and be different from the rest of the world, were copied in taste and style, and all thats left are their little clones.
this is actually quite sad. Hail the original punks who fought to be themselves and ended up being copied by thousands of people, who screwed up the true meaning of individuality.

peace and punk

xoxo