No future: A photo essay on the Philippine punk movement

• Main Author: Moody, Annalisa
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1987
• Subjects: Punk movement; Punk rock music > Philippines; Rock groups; Photographic interpretation; Communication
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_honors/101
• Institution: De La Salle University

This project presents the existence of the Philippine Punk Movement, a small but growing group of adolescent boys who have been indoctrinated by an ideology which advocates an alternative, nonconformist and nihilistic lifestyle. This ideology centers on the adolescent's fear of the future: the threat of nuclear war and consequently, the total annihilation of the human race. More threatening to the adolescent is the uncertainty of his future. Rejected by his family and unable to acquire good education and employment, the worsening state of the Philippine economy has convinced him that he is facing a life on the dole. With no future to look forward to, the present is therefore insignificant. To these dispossessed and disillusioned youths, the only way to confront this absurd world that has been unfair to them is to rebel against the establishment by adapting a lifestyle wherein clothes, music, attitudes, activities and behavior form the expression of the punk's inner hostilities and frustrations.