OOOOOHHHH!!! Now I get it!! See kids? This is why you should read the entire thread first. My mistake.
I can understand that to a degree. Although Punk was never about the "Lifestyle". It's more or less what every individual makes it to themself. The Sex Pistols screamed for anarchy, Bad Brains want's equality, and the Beasty Boys just want to party... well and recently save the seals. It's all about what it means to you. You said it yourself "it's a lifestyle". Well a lifestyle is more then just music my friend. Just look at how many different genre's of "Punk" there are out there. I think you're just a hardcore punk with something to prove, and no way to do it. Just appreciate the music, and quit harshing on people when you're not in a mosh pit.
Most emo's and 'punk-emos' nowadays are fucking posers who have no respect for punk and emo's history. Punk and emo have theirown tapestry of cultural and musical history that is shit upon by trendy middleschoolers and disney and MTV and magazines, and.....well.....just about goddamned everything!
The Sex Pistols changed a generation! The Ramones kept the love on flowing through America while the Sex Pistols were in the UK. But now punk ceases to exist. The spirit is alive, but as far as the public is concerned, it is dead, or poser.
Sunny Day Real Estate was an AWESOME emo band in the 80's. But now, we get mcr, blink182, falloutboy, and many, many other mistakes of music.
FUCK emo. It SHOULDN'T be about being sad. Fuck being sad. Why cry about the bleak future and horrid deaths ahead of us when we can soak up the now? Have fun and love while you can, before war kills the shit out of everything we hold dear....