Punk is a Wound Collector
>They never forget and they never truly forgive — often they quiet down only to revive the same subjects another day. There is no closure.
>They are hypersensitive to slights even when they are accidental or unintended.
>They seek slights where others have been victimized in order to piggyback on to those slights.
>They mistake good intentions for bad or for evil and there is no leniency for honest mistakes. This is particularly true of those who are clinically paranoid.
>Wound collectors tend to focus on one person, a group (e.g., Hitler and Jews), or an institution. Or they may focus on society in general (e.g., the Unabomber and his hatred of technology).
>For the wound collector, there is no fixing of things, only the collection of slights.
>There is no forgiveness on their part, no balanced look at life; they are always looking backward instead of forward.
>For the wound collector, time does not heal all wounds. In fact, time allows them to collect even more wounds.
>Wound collectors tend to have a very pessimistic view of life and people.
>At times, when there aren’t sufficient wounds for them to collect, some have been known to purposefully go out looking to be wounded by artificially creating situations so that they are slighted.
>Wound collectors tend to perceive the world as either you are with them or you are against them and any attempt to ameliorate or explain slights only enrages them further.
>Months or years after an event (a social slight) they will resurface that event, sometimes out of the blue, to justify their anger or rage. There is no closure for them.
