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As children grow up, and start to perceive how things are in
the world, they may go through a time of questioning everything.
Why do I have to listen to Mom and Dad? Why do I have to go to
school? Why can’t I smoke or drink when I am 10 even though
my uncle does it? As we get older, we might realize that our
parents or teachers were right on many of those things we argued
with, that they were for our own good, yet we may also find even
more things that are wrong in how the world operates.
Why is democracy equated with freedom when it is a majority rule,
and the minority does not get what they want? What if the
majority is wrong, and the minority is right? Why do we allow
governments to start wars for their expansionism and profit,
killing innocents, when there is no need to? Why do we allow the
destruction of our environment, for the profit of the few? After
the counterculture scene of the 60’s, these and many other
questions are some of the things that the punk music scene, in
the 70’s, loudly and aggressively questioned.
But like the hippies, the punks lived within the system itself,
if even on the fringe. No matter how hard a group tries to be
separate from the system, which they may feel corrupt, unless
they are living in the caves, mountains, or desert, and growing
their own food, it is very hard to not be a part of the machine
in some regard, that runs that which is called civilization, and
the industrial revolution.
In this issue we take a brief glimpse at some of the artists that
held true to the punk aesthetic, that is, those who were a voice
for freedom, liberty, and rebellion. Hollywood and the movie
industry itself began as a rebellious art form. At its first
inception, it was viewed by society as lowbrow art, less astute
than high minded painting or literature, and by many, it was even
viewed as trash and sleaze. To some perhaps laughably, much of it
today is of course just that. Yet as a whole, it is so much more.
At its greatest, film lifts the spirit up, to new heights of
being. The artists explored in this issue, be they poets,
musicians, filmmakers, or journalists, do the same for many. They
put themselves out there, on the line, with bravado, challenging,
provoking, and pushing the edges of the norm.
Whether you agree with their messages or not, they and artists
like them, have strengthened the foundation of our freedoms,
shaken the foundations of complacency, and awoken many to the
tough reality that things are not as good as they can or should
be. They remind us that we must rise up and fight for what we
believe in. We must never accept the status quo, and we must make
our own reality, not suffer some one else’s. Here’s
to creating your own reality. Here’s to freedom!
- Bruce Edwin, Editor
© The Hollywood Sentinel