A person can subsist in two ways. One, hand themselves over to society — mores, economics, politics, sports; all are important components of social lifestyle. Even academia is an indulgence, it adds to and peels apart the societal onion. Or, you can reject society and subvert it, the punk's lifestyle. Anarchical, a punk lives on the fringe and thrives off of societal loopholes, dumpster dives and makes do with meager funds. Considering the music connotations of punk, recall the stick and bindle lifestyle that destroyed McCandless and immortalized Poppa Neutrino, it provides a more accessible picture. This is our lifelong dilemma, animalist v. humanist and usually the decision resolves posthumously.
Post-college, the decision to embrace or spurn society manifests. For some, the answer is simple, immediate work or additional schooling has placed them right into society; square pegs accepting their complementing hole. The circular pegs take more time to decide. Do they let society file away at them, cutting chords after chord until the automaton remains? Or do they reject the board altogether, and ward off the chisel of society?
Fellow Derelicts, this is a question that will tug at our conscience: do we embrace our society? The Isociety, the sleek, chic, trendy and cynical? The do-everything society that achieves nothing? Or, can you reject it and live in what many refer to as poverty, while some nonchalantly label it "life." Money has a mysterious pull, the green light we all gesture wildly toward in the distance, that we dance this wild rumpus for.
It's a decision we all have to make, and it begins right now as the glamor fades and removes the film from our eyes. Becoming an individual means joining a community.
Is society so bad?
-Mozart
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