I honestly find these stories 1) not very satisfying 2) hopelessly saccharine and 3) naïve. It’s why I can’t watch Star Trek anymore. Even if you’re an optimist

I honestly find these stories 1) not very satisfying 2) hopelessly saccharine and 3) naïve. It’s why I can’t watch Star Trek anymore. Even if you’re an optimist, you recognize it’s going to get worse — a lot worse — before it gets better. I find the modern punk scene is only becoming more and more political — and because we lack a functioning democracy, violent. I would expect to see more ecoterrorism (there’s been a bunch in the PNW recently that you never hear about because the media doesn’t want to report on anti-capitalist activity lest anyone get any ideas that there might be a movement) and violence protests as the “punks” (often called “anarchists” in the media) arm themselves to match the right-wing loonies. The guys Kyle Rittenhouse shot? Likely all anarchists / punks. The next Grosskreuz will pull the trigger, guaranteed. I’m an aging punk myself and I’ve never seen a firearms culture in punk spaces until the last few years. These days every Gen Z punk I know has an AR-15 and a pistol. Gun culture is suddenly cool among the urban / suburban set in a way that it hasn’t been with millennials. In the face of all this, I think the author mistakes what she needs in her personal life with what praxis looks like from the perspective of a working class punk.