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When My Sixth Grade Teacher Opened The Class With Subtle Praise For The Guardsmen Shooting Four People To Death At Kent State, I'd Given Up Arguing With Her By That Point. But I Was Very Riled Up Inside And Vowed That I Would Never Forget That.

I Got Out Of That Immediately Was That Now, All Of A Sudden, Rock Music Had Become A Spectator Sport, That Corporate Labels And Their Bands Were The New Establishment, And Punk Was There To Fight Them The Way The Activist Hippies Must Have Fought What The Establishment Must Have Been Ten Years Before. And It Was Interesting To See The Reactions In Different Parts Of The Country.

My Parents Didn't Hide Reality. I Watched Cartoons And The News With Equal Fascination.

Growing Up In A Family That Listened To Almost Nothing But Classical Music Had Its Effects, As Well. "california Über Alles," The First Dead Kennedys Single, Was Inspired Musically More By Japanese Kabuki Than Anything Else.

It Depends On The Situation. I Mean, On One Hand There's The Argument That People Should Be Left Alone On The Other Hand, There's The Argument To Wade In A Stop Slaughters In Places Like Bosnia And Kosovo And What We Probably Should Have Done In Rwanda.