What follows are not my words, but I
completely feel and support them. Please, read this and, if you
too feel these words in your inner-being, pass them on, join the
effot.
Ravers' Manifesto
Our emotional state of choice is ecstasy.
Our nourishment of choice is Love.
Our addiction of choice is technology.
Our religion of choice is music.
Our currency of choice is knowledge.
Our politics of choice is none.
Our society of choice is utopian though we know it will never be.
You may hate us.
You may dismiss us.
You may misunderstand us.
You may be unaware of our existence.
We can only hope you do not care to judge us, because we would
never judge you.
We are not criminals.
We are not disillusioned.
We are not drug addicts.
We are not naive children.
We are one massive, global, tribal village that transcends
man-made law, physical geography, and time itself.
We are The Massive.
One Massive.
We were first drawn by the sound. From far away, the thunderous,
muffled, echoing beat was comparable to a mother's heart soothing
a child in her womb of concrete, steel, and electrical wiring.
We were drawn back into this womb, and there, in the heat,
dampness, and darkness of it, we came to accept that we are all
the same.
We came to accept that we are all equal.
Not only to the darkness, and to ourselves, but to the very music
slamming into us and passing through our souls: we are all equal.
And somewhere around 35Hz we could feel the hand of God at our
backs, pushing us forward, pushing us to push ourselves to
strengthen our minds, our bodies, and our spirits.
Pushing us to turn to the person beside us to join hands and
uplift them by sharing the uncontrollable joy we felt from
creating this magical bubble that can, for one evening, protect
us from the horrors, atrocities, and pollution of the outside
world.
It is in that very instant, with these very realizations that
each of was truly born.
We continue to pack our bodies into
clubs, or warehouses, or buildings you've abandoned and left for
naught, and we bring life to them for one night.
Strong,
throbbing, vibrant life in it's purest, most intense, most
hedonistic form.
In these makeshift spaces, we seek to shed ourselves of the
burden of uncertainty for a future you have been unable to
stabilize and secure for us.
We seek to relinquish our inhibitions, and free ourselves from
the shackles and restraints you've put on us for your own peace
of mind.
We seek to re-write the programming that you have tried to
indoctrinate us with since the moment we were born.
Programming that tells us to hate, that tells us to judge, that
tells us to stuff ourselves into the nearest and most convenient
pigeon hole possible.
Programming that even tells us to climb ladders for you, jump
through hoops, and run through mazes and on hamster wheels.
Programming that tells us to eat from the shiny silver spoon you
are trying to feed us with, instead of nourish ourselves with our
own capable hands.
Programming that tells us to close our minds, instead of open
them.
Until the sun rises to burn our eyes by revealing the dystopian
reality of the world you've created for us, we dance fiercely
with our brothers and sisters in celebration of our life, of our
culture, and of the values we believe in: Peace, Love, Freedom,
Tolerance, Unity, Harmony, Expression, Responsibility and
Respect.
Our enemy of choice is ignorance.
Our weapon of choice is information.
Our crime of choice is breaking and challenging whatever laws you
feel you need to put in place to stop us from celebrating our
existence.
But know that while you may shut down any given party, on any
given night, in any given city, in any given country or continent
on this beautiful planet, you can never shut down the entire
party.
You don't have access to that switch, no matter what you may
think.
The music will never stop.
The heartbeat will never fade.
The party will never end.
I am a raver, and this is my manifesto.
(We've
been losing unity in the scene, and it seems so many people don't
even know what they're there for. I wrote this knowing that if we
can get this out to enough people and on enough sites, we can
educate some people, and help bring back the unity we need to
keep this scene at the amazing level it's at today.)
Spread this around.
by
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(This can also be found in my on-line diary by clicking here)