02-14-2011, 04:33 AM
A great friend of mine from several years ago was a skinhead. To me they are more about ultra progressive thought, enjoying the 'irony" of life and art, having fun with crazy raw fashion and goofing off. Not a violent bone in his body. Except when he was having sex, then I heard he did get pretty wild. But we're not talking about beating up punks in the alley. I had the ability to enter this crowd because even though I seem fairly normal on the outside, I tend to say really crazy silly things randomly, which that culture loves. And I had a good grasp on art, including outsider/modern/abstract/graffiti. Provocative is good, violence is bad. People who don't think and embrace the herd mentality are frowned on. Some extremely intelligent and creative people. So I respect this group of people because they have some great ideals.