... by their own standard, on the fringes of society. Young people who were frustrated and bored, dissatisfied with they perceived as an idealist hippie culture, the corruption and prejudiced authority of police, the government, the church, the education system, the social welfare system, and pretty much every ... live on, and potential employers were extremely prejudiced against nonconformity to a conservative standard. Punk rock was not so much a sub-culture as it was a counter-culture. It inadvertently and deliberately sought to undermine and disrupt the foundation of the conservative syst...

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