people do not seem much interested in revolt or rebellion anymore. or in any attempt to overthrow and establish a better society (maybe things will change in the next years, but the point i am trying to make with this text will still be true). i think to a huge part, the internet is to blame for this. if people, of any age, are interested in rebellion, or societal change, or anarchy, they will undoubtedly look this up on the internet. and they will read about it. and they will see, or rather, they will read on the internet, that most revolutions of the past turned sour - the overthrow of the tsar that led to the iron rule of stalin, and the others. they will also read that in modern times, no longer-working societal anarchy existed - either it failed, or it was crushed. they will get to know that even teenagers that ran away from home or turned punk, in the end became boring 30 year olds like all the rest - if they didn't found a much more sour ending. so why follow rebellion? why follow anarchy?
it is understandable, from this point of view, that the youth, the workers, the oppressed, don't rebel and call for an overthrow anymore. it all seems so pointless. but this is a lie. it is a lie of the internet. it is not the truth. it as an illusion. it is an illusion that pins people down, that makes them conform to society, to be afraid of stepping out of the line and trying something new. it is not real. it is fake. how could this be fake, you might ask. does the internet not simply state the facts? yes, it states some facts - but it conceals a lot. it conceals very important things. which is this, that is concealed by the internet? it is, that you might read about rebellion and anarchy of the past, and of the present. and it is that these things might look sour, hopeless, or disappointing. but this is just the anarchy and rebellion you read about. it is not *your* rebellion. it is not *your* anarchy. you are alive. what the internet gives you is just dead information. *you* can change things. *you* can try things. the internet can't. the anarchy of the past, that failed and is written down now, can't. because it is not alive in the sense that you are alive. this is the lie of the internet. the illusion of the internet. you are on the internet, but you are not the internet. there is a gap, there is not a true connection, coherence. and this gap is invisible to the interned-eyed. but within this gap, everything is possible. it is the thing you cannot find on the internet, and probably will never find on the internet. sure, the anarchy and rebellion, the anarchies and rebellions you read about might have all failed, or found a bad end. but *your* anarchy does not have to fail. forgot what you read. it is dead. it is text. it is of no meaning. *your* rebellion does not have to fail. your anarchy and rebellion is still possible, it is alive, it is living, inside yourself and everywhere. and this way, you can end up with something good.
Saturday, September 2, 2017
Hardcore Techno, What Was After That, And How Nihilism Got Old
the underground and experimental hardcore techno movement of the 90s was in many senses, to me, the logical end of the era of the modern, of the 20th century so to speak. we had seen uprisings in the 60s, in which many of the so called western "values", ideas, concepts, authorities and oppressive structures and their philosophy were attacked and criticized. the punk era took the nihilism even farther than that. with hardcore techno, the nihilism became total. experimental hardcore techno rejected everything. soundwise, it more or less made no amends to any genres that were around at the time; neither to pop, dance, or alternative rock, or the "intelligent electronica" genres that were around, and in a sense not even to its own techno and hardcore roots, as the funk and groove of techno and house were completely eradicated with the brickstone killer kicks.
i was around at that scene, so i know a lot of people in it where pissed at any scene, at any existing form of music, at all of society and western civilization, all the politics left and right. it was not uncommon to listen only to various forms of hardcore and to lock oneself in on friday nights when everyone else went out to the "club".
the lyrics, label pictures, quotes used in hardcore tracks and their records point to this nihilism. the frenetic use of any sample material available regarding global nuclear warfare; "the missiles take to the skies by the thousand" via brandon spivey "devastation on an unimaginable scale will occur" via surgeon 16 records. "Imagine surveying earth after nuclear destruction and enjoying what you see" via the mover's interview in alien underground.
it was like saying. hell, you people build these missiles. you kept us in fear of war for decades. just go ahead. launch the missiles. let nuclear warheads reign from the sky. it will not be a loss anyway. who cares about humanity.
okay, i could go on with further examples. but i will stop here. so we were sitting here, being over with and disattached to anything and everything. now a new generation of idiots arrived, and immediately tried to make us feel old. especially in the breakcore scene. they were basically saying: "okay, everything sucks. but, resistance, rebellion, anarchy is a concept too. an ideology, if you will. so if you cling to it, you are still attached to something that is outdated. we are one stop further in nihilism. we won't even resist or scream anymore."
that's how they wished to appear, unconsciously or consciously. their standpoint was easy to refute and overcome, though, as they embraced mass culture, pop music, society's authorities, things that were used to be rejected. so they were the opposite of being nihilistic, after all. the 60s rebellion might have been old by 2000; but pop culture was even older and more outdated. so the new breakcore crowd actually put themselves into a conservatism of a long gone past. yet the problem was, their point was not so easy to refute after all. if you ought to reject *everything*. shouldn't you reject radical politics and anarchism too?
there are two things to say about this. first, the whole "art for art's sake" stance has one major problem. you can say art should be free of all categories, and just be made for the sake of art itself, to spread and create art. but, this leaves one category intact. which is that "art" itself is a category. if you really want to remove all categories, you have to take art itself out of the equation too.
as long as you still say you create or enjoy art, you are still trapped in walking in categories.
this might seem very abstract - and it is, but it is entirely possible to remove the category of art itself. for example, in music, you could stop buying records altogether and just listen to car's driving on the streets or birds singing in the forest - "sounds" that are usually not classified as being "music". there is more to say about this, but this is not the room for that.
the second thing is, that, while in theory, all categories and concepts indeed should be removed, this doesn't hold so true in reality, or rather, it is not correct at all, at least not fully correct.
you ought to use categories, concepts, theories, symbols, thought sets. base art on them, entangle your art in them, use them as a focus point for your art. and also elsewhere. if you reject all ideology, you should be aware that anarchism can easily become an - oppressive - ideology too, if taken in the wrong direction. yet anarchism is necessary, in order to create a free society.
this sounds paradox, and it is paradox, one of the biggest paradox. but it is also right.
maybe the only thing one could say is: follow concepts, use concepts, ideas, theories; but be also on the guard about them, prepare yourself to reject them, deconstruct, and use this ability often.
this can lead to an interesting outcome.
i was around at that scene, so i know a lot of people in it where pissed at any scene, at any existing form of music, at all of society and western civilization, all the politics left and right. it was not uncommon to listen only to various forms of hardcore and to lock oneself in on friday nights when everyone else went out to the "club".
the lyrics, label pictures, quotes used in hardcore tracks and their records point to this nihilism. the frenetic use of any sample material available regarding global nuclear warfare; "the missiles take to the skies by the thousand" via brandon spivey "devastation on an unimaginable scale will occur" via surgeon 16 records. "Imagine surveying earth after nuclear destruction and enjoying what you see" via the mover's interview in alien underground.
it was like saying. hell, you people build these missiles. you kept us in fear of war for decades. just go ahead. launch the missiles. let nuclear warheads reign from the sky. it will not be a loss anyway. who cares about humanity.
okay, i could go on with further examples. but i will stop here. so we were sitting here, being over with and disattached to anything and everything. now a new generation of idiots arrived, and immediately tried to make us feel old. especially in the breakcore scene. they were basically saying: "okay, everything sucks. but, resistance, rebellion, anarchy is a concept too. an ideology, if you will. so if you cling to it, you are still attached to something that is outdated. we are one stop further in nihilism. we won't even resist or scream anymore."
that's how they wished to appear, unconsciously or consciously. their standpoint was easy to refute and overcome, though, as they embraced mass culture, pop music, society's authorities, things that were used to be rejected. so they were the opposite of being nihilistic, after all. the 60s rebellion might have been old by 2000; but pop culture was even older and more outdated. so the new breakcore crowd actually put themselves into a conservatism of a long gone past. yet the problem was, their point was not so easy to refute after all. if you ought to reject *everything*. shouldn't you reject radical politics and anarchism too?
there are two things to say about this. first, the whole "art for art's sake" stance has one major problem. you can say art should be free of all categories, and just be made for the sake of art itself, to spread and create art. but, this leaves one category intact. which is that "art" itself is a category. if you really want to remove all categories, you have to take art itself out of the equation too.
as long as you still say you create or enjoy art, you are still trapped in walking in categories.
this might seem very abstract - and it is, but it is entirely possible to remove the category of art itself. for example, in music, you could stop buying records altogether and just listen to car's driving on the streets or birds singing in the forest - "sounds" that are usually not classified as being "music". there is more to say about this, but this is not the room for that.
the second thing is, that, while in theory, all categories and concepts indeed should be removed, this doesn't hold so true in reality, or rather, it is not correct at all, at least not fully correct.
you ought to use categories, concepts, theories, symbols, thought sets. base art on them, entangle your art in them, use them as a focus point for your art. and also elsewhere. if you reject all ideology, you should be aware that anarchism can easily become an - oppressive - ideology too, if taken in the wrong direction. yet anarchism is necessary, in order to create a free society.
this sounds paradox, and it is paradox, one of the biggest paradox. but it is also right.
maybe the only thing one could say is: follow concepts, use concepts, ideas, theories; but be also on the guard about them, prepare yourself to reject them, deconstruct, and use this ability often.
this can lead to an interesting outcome.
Revolution Is In The Air
revolution is in the air... again... finally.
there were some dark years, after the damned early 2000 years, when political, societal, cultural uprising, revolution, change seemed to be defeated, seemed to be futile. people where not only not interested in revolution anymore; you were laughed at if you still talked and fought for it; not even seen as their "enemy", but rather as a child who doesn't understand the basic fact that the status quo and the system will always be in this way, seemingly live on forever.
as i addressed in other texts, formerly "revolutionary" artists - or rather artists who had abused revolutionary rhetoric for their own ends, quickly jettisoned their revolutionary ideas and found their peace with pop culture, conservatism, the political system and market society. this was enhanced by the idea that now in a society driven mostly by computer technology, revolutionary struggle would just be an idea of the past.
okay so these were the dark years. nearly 10 dark, bleak years where it seemed humanity - at least in the western world - had finally lost it and we were stuck with a society that either bored us to death or directly killed us forever.
but in the last years, starting somewhen around 2007 for me, and especially after 2010, i noticed that things were about to change again. it was immediately clear to me that revolution was finally back. anarchism was back. social struggle was back. after 2013 it totally came out in the open for me. obviously this tendency had ran for a longer time already, and probably never had totally gone away, but i hadn't noticed it before. suddenly, it became visible that there was an interest in political ideas. in social struggle. people read about anarchism again and about anarchist authors. the interest in these things seems to strengthen everymonth, basically. it is something that is talked about again, that people are willing to dedicate themselves to again. of course, not yet, the large masses. but a large number of people, at least.
these are great and wonderful news. revolution is in the air again. you might see it too again, soon. or if it doesnt become visible - at least it's there, it's happening, and it's growing.
great times lie ahead. adventures, exciting, wonderful times.
there were some dark years, after the damned early 2000 years, when political, societal, cultural uprising, revolution, change seemed to be defeated, seemed to be futile. people where not only not interested in revolution anymore; you were laughed at if you still talked and fought for it; not even seen as their "enemy", but rather as a child who doesn't understand the basic fact that the status quo and the system will always be in this way, seemingly live on forever.
as i addressed in other texts, formerly "revolutionary" artists - or rather artists who had abused revolutionary rhetoric for their own ends, quickly jettisoned their revolutionary ideas and found their peace with pop culture, conservatism, the political system and market society. this was enhanced by the idea that now in a society driven mostly by computer technology, revolutionary struggle would just be an idea of the past.
okay so these were the dark years. nearly 10 dark, bleak years where it seemed humanity - at least in the western world - had finally lost it and we were stuck with a society that either bored us to death or directly killed us forever.
but in the last years, starting somewhen around 2007 for me, and especially after 2010, i noticed that things were about to change again. it was immediately clear to me that revolution was finally back. anarchism was back. social struggle was back. after 2013 it totally came out in the open for me. obviously this tendency had ran for a longer time already, and probably never had totally gone away, but i hadn't noticed it before. suddenly, it became visible that there was an interest in political ideas. in social struggle. people read about anarchism again and about anarchist authors. the interest in these things seems to strengthen everymonth, basically. it is something that is talked about again, that people are willing to dedicate themselves to again. of course, not yet, the large masses. but a large number of people, at least.
these are great and wonderful news. revolution is in the air again. you might see it too again, soon. or if it doesnt become visible - at least it's there, it's happening, and it's growing.
great times lie ahead. adventures, exciting, wonderful times.
Revolution Of The Mind
i talk about revolution, uprising, and support a free society and communal forms of economy. in my opinion, this is correct. but there is also another a thing. yes, the state, the nation, the capital, should be fought. but, also, in fact, there is no state. no nation. no capital. these are just ideas, merely existing in the imagination of people. you might say, well, of course there are states, usa, germany, france, there are governments, laws. yes, these things, more or less, exist. but these are not what people think when they say "state". they don't fit to the ideas they represent.
just open your favorite newspaper, or in our digital age, your favorite newspage. read the stories. for example: the law is part of the government, of the state. but if you read the newsstories, you will find that not only the gangsters and outsiders break the law regularly, but also common people, also the upper class - and also the politicians themselves. the law, as the idea it is put forward, doesn't exist. has never existed. sure, there is police, and there are laws that are written on paper, but these are far away from the ideal of law that is put forward. you could say this about almost any other aspect of government. the government is supposed to support the social good; does it do this on a larger scale? the government has an army to defend the nation; is it used this way (and not to attack other nations for reasons such as power and greed)? so, yes, there is a thing called "the state". but, it is far different from the idea of the state that people have in their head.
there is no government and no state in the real, 'philosophical', coherent idea of these words. similar there are no markets, no nations, no economics.
capitalist and government institutions are upheld because a lot of people profiteer from these. but these people, businessman and politicians, do not even believe in these things themselves or follow "the rules". they are often the most corrupt of all.
but also in a negative sense states do not exist. there is no body of people that would coherently defend the ruling class against revolt. not in a decisive, true way at least. i'm sure if revolution happens most of the politicians, policemen, supporters would scatter in panic, and try to flee or run over to the other side.
because the state is just an idea.
it runs deeper than that; it takes longer to explain; as usual. but be sure, the state and hierarchy is just a thought in your head.
poor revolutionaries of the past, waiting, cumulating their power for a final attack on the hierarchy that never comes, while all they had had to do was to get the idea of "state" and "hierarchy" out of their head, to be able to be free, to attain real freedom.
if we want revolution, the important and main task is to free the minds of people, so that they are able to get these ideas that repress them out of their head; to abandon the ideas of a government, a state, of capitalism.
this by no means does make obsolete the need for tangible activism too. riots, revolts, uprisings are necessary too, as are local and international organization. but these have to be entwined in the task to give people the chance to free their minds too.
in the end, both things strengthen each other.
these are great and wonderful news. revolution is in the air again. you might see it too again, soon. or if it doesnt become visible - at least it's there, it's happening, and it's growing.
great times lie ahead. adventures, exciting, wonderful times.
just open your favorite newspaper, or in our digital age, your favorite newspage. read the stories. for example: the law is part of the government, of the state. but if you read the newsstories, you will find that not only the gangsters and outsiders break the law regularly, but also common people, also the upper class - and also the politicians themselves. the law, as the idea it is put forward, doesn't exist. has never existed. sure, there is police, and there are laws that are written on paper, but these are far away from the ideal of law that is put forward. you could say this about almost any other aspect of government. the government is supposed to support the social good; does it do this on a larger scale? the government has an army to defend the nation; is it used this way (and not to attack other nations for reasons such as power and greed)? so, yes, there is a thing called "the state". but, it is far different from the idea of the state that people have in their head.
there is no government and no state in the real, 'philosophical', coherent idea of these words. similar there are no markets, no nations, no economics.
capitalist and government institutions are upheld because a lot of people profiteer from these. but these people, businessman and politicians, do not even believe in these things themselves or follow "the rules". they are often the most corrupt of all.
but also in a negative sense states do not exist. there is no body of people that would coherently defend the ruling class against revolt. not in a decisive, true way at least. i'm sure if revolution happens most of the politicians, policemen, supporters would scatter in panic, and try to flee or run over to the other side.
because the state is just an idea.
it runs deeper than that; it takes longer to explain; as usual. but be sure, the state and hierarchy is just a thought in your head.
poor revolutionaries of the past, waiting, cumulating their power for a final attack on the hierarchy that never comes, while all they had had to do was to get the idea of "state" and "hierarchy" out of their head, to be able to be free, to attain real freedom.
if we want revolution, the important and main task is to free the minds of people, so that they are able to get these ideas that repress them out of their head; to abandon the ideas of a government, a state, of capitalism.
this by no means does make obsolete the need for tangible activism too. riots, revolts, uprisings are necessary too, as are local and international organization. but these have to be entwined in the task to give people the chance to free their minds too.
in the end, both things strengthen each other.
these are great and wonderful news. revolution is in the air again. you might see it too again, soon. or if it doesnt become visible - at least it's there, it's happening, and it's growing.
great times lie ahead. adventures, exciting, wonderful times.
Sonic Threads
it is interesting to note there is seemingly a sonic thread, in terms of content, message, philosophy in the music of the last decades; and this thread even continues along the seemingly rifts in music; the breaks between declining and new genres, and creates a bit of a whole connection.
60s rock, hippie, countercultural revolt grew stale in the 70s; i think this also shows in their music, and i think "the wall" by pink floyd is a good example of this. it paints a complete bleak, depressing hopeless picture. take a look of the lyrics of its song, "Another Brick In The Wall Part 3"
I don't need no arms around me
And I dont need no drugs to calm me.
I have seen the writing on the wall.
Don't think I need anything at all.
No! Don't think I'll need anything at all.
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.
All in all you were all just bricks in the wall.
the ending point. all is hopeless. how to go on from this? this was the ending of the first rock period that originated in the 60s. yet, something new was beginning. the punk explosion. and, lyricwise, and in their philosophy, they actually went on from this. okay, so everything is shit. everything is hopeless. but hey, let's have fun with that. we got decay? give us more decay. gives us anarchy, nihilism. "there is no future on in england's dreaming". so get on the floor and get wild to the guitars.
so, even though punk wanted to be a total break from 60s and 70s rock, which they saw as "hippie" music, in content, they went on from it (and transcended it). this was likely not a conscious decision - but it is interesting, to find indications for this thing.
a second example is the acid house and techno explosion, which came at a point when "indie" and genres as shoegaze dominated the subcultures.
punk had given way to postpunk, new wave and indie bands. while they had their cheerful moments too, they were also in most cases considerably bleak in their lyrical and sonic content.
yet, at the end (but also from the beginning), in their content, they reached a strange form of transcendence. okay, everything is bleak, everything is hopeless. but if you realise this, if you give in, if you see that all is in vain, you reach some point of exalted feeling of freedom. give up the world and the world won't faze you anymore. yes, it all was in vain, but it doesn't matter. it doesn't reach you.
this not only was the end of postpunk, or a certain grey worldview; it was also the farthest deconstruction of the modern worldview in general, with its ideas, morals and values, that had lost its meaning for its youth and discontent.
now, the interesting thing, is that techno and rave exactly pick up at that point, in their mindset and spectrum of ideas. postpunk led to the point that all in the world was meaningless. so rave tried to create something that was outside the common things and of meaning again. techno in its ideology, at the beginning at least, was very unworldly. go into ecstasy, into trance, "higher states of consciousness", into introspection and bliss. also, the issues of everyday experience were negated to an extreme point: we don't care about the political systems anymore, about cold wars, nuclear arms, all the bleak and disappointing issues in this world: let's dance, have fun, enjoy your life, relax and be happy.
so, techno originated from the meaningless, and set out to create meaning again. inevitably, the ecstasy and exaltation of rave grew stale about a decade later too, again. but it is interesting to see this ongoing sonic thread; and it is to wonder, what will be the next development, the next movement?
60s rock, hippie, countercultural revolt grew stale in the 70s; i think this also shows in their music, and i think "the wall" by pink floyd is a good example of this. it paints a complete bleak, depressing hopeless picture. take a look of the lyrics of its song, "Another Brick In The Wall Part 3"
I don't need no arms around me
And I dont need no drugs to calm me.
I have seen the writing on the wall.
Don't think I need anything at all.
No! Don't think I'll need anything at all.
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.
All in all you were all just bricks in the wall.
the ending point. all is hopeless. how to go on from this? this was the ending of the first rock period that originated in the 60s. yet, something new was beginning. the punk explosion. and, lyricwise, and in their philosophy, they actually went on from this. okay, so everything is shit. everything is hopeless. but hey, let's have fun with that. we got decay? give us more decay. gives us anarchy, nihilism. "there is no future on in england's dreaming". so get on the floor and get wild to the guitars.
so, even though punk wanted to be a total break from 60s and 70s rock, which they saw as "hippie" music, in content, they went on from it (and transcended it). this was likely not a conscious decision - but it is interesting, to find indications for this thing.
a second example is the acid house and techno explosion, which came at a point when "indie" and genres as shoegaze dominated the subcultures.
punk had given way to postpunk, new wave and indie bands. while they had their cheerful moments too, they were also in most cases considerably bleak in their lyrical and sonic content.
yet, at the end (but also from the beginning), in their content, they reached a strange form of transcendence. okay, everything is bleak, everything is hopeless. but if you realise this, if you give in, if you see that all is in vain, you reach some point of exalted feeling of freedom. give up the world and the world won't faze you anymore. yes, it all was in vain, but it doesn't matter. it doesn't reach you.
this not only was the end of postpunk, or a certain grey worldview; it was also the farthest deconstruction of the modern worldview in general, with its ideas, morals and values, that had lost its meaning for its youth and discontent.
now, the interesting thing, is that techno and rave exactly pick up at that point, in their mindset and spectrum of ideas. postpunk led to the point that all in the world was meaningless. so rave tried to create something that was outside the common things and of meaning again. techno in its ideology, at the beginning at least, was very unworldly. go into ecstasy, into trance, "higher states of consciousness", into introspection and bliss. also, the issues of everyday experience were negated to an extreme point: we don't care about the political systems anymore, about cold wars, nuclear arms, all the bleak and disappointing issues in this world: let's dance, have fun, enjoy your life, relax and be happy.
so, techno originated from the meaningless, and set out to create meaning again. inevitably, the ecstasy and exaltation of rave grew stale about a decade later too, again. but it is interesting to see this ongoing sonic thread; and it is to wonder, what will be the next development, the next movement?
The Key
i know the answer and i know it not. i know nothing and i know everything.
the key, the answer you are seeking, is - yourself.
that is the most important thing. the major thing. the mover of all things.
how do i mean this? for example, you, as everyone is facing a multitude of problems in life. you will never solve them - until you make peace with yourself. accept yourself, and further yourself. love yourself.
you will fail the most profane tasks in life if you are in a fight with yourself (in fact, many people who are in disarray with their selves - for example while being heartbroken - will even fail to go out regularly and socialize, or eat enough). when you are whole, when you are in touch with yourself, you can excel at the most complicate and intricate tasks.
or, the struggle of common life doesn't interest you as much, at least not on the everyday level. and you seek wisdom,
the answers, a purpose, a goal in life. again, you can only find this - and you will find this - if you get in touch with yourself.
the self is the key to anything.
of course, so far almost any social, religious, political structure - the church, the state, capitalism tells you to *get rid* of yourself. in fact this is the very basis of all social structures that existed so far. it lies at the beginning of religion; in any major religion its priests or monks will tell you that the way is to abandon yourself, to grow over yourself, to learn to get rid of it. then you will find peace and enlightenment.
but this is wrong. it is exactly the other way round. if you move closer to yourself, then you can move ahead.
so further yourself. support yourself. explore yourself. get to know yourself. get in contact with your self.
love your self.
the key, the answer you are seeking, is - yourself.
that is the most important thing. the major thing. the mover of all things.
how do i mean this? for example, you, as everyone is facing a multitude of problems in life. you will never solve them - until you make peace with yourself. accept yourself, and further yourself. love yourself.
you will fail the most profane tasks in life if you are in a fight with yourself (in fact, many people who are in disarray with their selves - for example while being heartbroken - will even fail to go out regularly and socialize, or eat enough). when you are whole, when you are in touch with yourself, you can excel at the most complicate and intricate tasks.
or, the struggle of common life doesn't interest you as much, at least not on the everyday level. and you seek wisdom,
the answers, a purpose, a goal in life. again, you can only find this - and you will find this - if you get in touch with yourself.
the self is the key to anything.
of course, so far almost any social, religious, political structure - the church, the state, capitalism tells you to *get rid* of yourself. in fact this is the very basis of all social structures that existed so far. it lies at the beginning of religion; in any major religion its priests or monks will tell you that the way is to abandon yourself, to grow over yourself, to learn to get rid of it. then you will find peace and enlightenment.
but this is wrong. it is exactly the other way round. if you move closer to yourself, then you can move ahead.
so further yourself. support yourself. explore yourself. get to know yourself. get in contact with your self.
love your self.
Anarchy and Extacy
the system, society, capitalist civilization, dulls our minds; our senses; our bodies. the everyday oppression by police, surveillance, capitalist factories, are a thousand times surmounted by the oppression of our minds and thoughts. society leaves us with only a small pile of dust of joys and enthusiasm still available for us; boring reality tv shows; shopping for overpriced shoes; all the small and large, but false, attraction of all kinds of luxury items.
there is so much more in life. there should be so much more. all these adventures that could happen. all these journeys one could begin. all these joys, excitement, satisfaction that is out there, that waits to be discovered.
the sweet, sweet tears of ecstasy.
there is so much joy and pure bliss one can experience in this life. i feel there is no limit on happiness. you can always surpass it. yet capitalism bores us with the "everyday life" we are locked in. yes, the institutions of the state have to be questioned. those of the capital. those of other forms of oppression. but we mustn't forget the other struggle too, the struggle for adventure, for the fantastic. we need to pave a way for ecstasy. for a true anarchy, an anarchy of the wondrous, of the brilliant.
there is so much more in life. there should be so much more. all these adventures that could happen. all these journeys one could begin. all these joys, excitement, satisfaction that is out there, that waits to be discovered.
the sweet, sweet tears of ecstasy.
there is so much joy and pure bliss one can experience in this life. i feel there is no limit on happiness. you can always surpass it. yet capitalism bores us with the "everyday life" we are locked in. yes, the institutions of the state have to be questioned. those of the capital. those of other forms of oppression. but we mustn't forget the other struggle too, the struggle for adventure, for the fantastic. we need to pave a way for ecstasy. for a true anarchy, an anarchy of the wondrous, of the brilliant.
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