The filmmaker, James Toback seems to think this behaviour is somehow revolutionary. Today, it's all just so much ironic posturing. As described in Please Kill Me , the punk movement itself is a paradox, a non-movement that was political only by virtue of its apolitics. Back in the mid-'70s, punk culture consciously and deliberately manipulated loaded political symbols to express its nonconformist and anarchistic impulses. Today it's all Hilfiger and shit.
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