The fight. What does it mean, and where does it come from? An essay. Homo sapiens. A man. He is alone in the universe. A punker. Still a man. He is alone in the universe. But he connects. How? They hit each other. Ooh! No clearer way to evaluate whether or not you're alive. Now, complications. A reason to fight: Somebody different. Difference creates dispute. Dispute is a reason to fight. Now, to fight is a reason to feel pain. Life is pain. So to fight, with reason... is to be alive with reason. Final analysis. To fight: A reason to live. Problems and contradictions: I am an anarchist. I believe that there should be no rules, only chaos. Fighting appears to be chaos, and when we slam in a pit at a show, it is. But when we fight for a reason, like rednecks, there is a system. We fight for what we stand for... chaos. But fighting is a structure. Fighting is to establish power, power is government... and government is not anarchy. Government is war, and war is fighting. The circle goes like this: Our redneck skirmishes... are cheaper versions of conventional warfare. War implies extreme government... because wars are fought to enforce rules or ideals, even freedom. But other people's ideals forced on someone else... even if it is something like freedom, is still a rule. Not anarchy. This contradiction was becoming clear to me in the fall of 85' . Even as early as my first party, why did I love to fight? <
