• naught101@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    I think you are right about steampunk, but cyberpunk does have an element of an anti-authoritarian counter culture (hackers going up against tech oligarchs). And solar punk evolved from there and is more explicitly political, although more utopian and I agree there is a bit of distance in the meaning.

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      17 days ago

      Yeah I was thinking about that, but it is not consistent across all punks so it can’t be the meaning of punk right?

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        17 days ago

        That’s… Not how words work. Like, a silverfish is not a type of fish, bench dog is not a type of dog, etc.

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          17 days ago

          Silverfish is called so because it looks like a silvery fish. Bench dog in woodworking is something that holds things.

          But what is my point they are not fish and a dog(animal) so the words don’t always hold exact meaning.

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            17 days ago

            I have no idea how to make this comment of yours coherent with the one of yours 2 above it…