Imagine your nearest airport being bombed. Imagine bridges and roads around you being destroyed. Imagine power plants, electricity, hospitals, government buildings being destroyed and sewers that stop functioning. Imagine no water coming from the tap. Imagine no food or medicine or outside humanitarian help being allowed into your country. Imagine a rain of bombs falling over houses, churches and stores so that ten, twenty, fifty civilians are killed every day.
Imagine an army kidnapping half of your government and taking them out of the country. Imagine the same army every night firing sound bombs above your roof so your windows are blown open, nobody can sleep and your kids getting stomach pains from pure stress. Imagine having to pass through military checkpoints every day to get to your job. Imagine being refused to travel outside your country. Imagine a concrete wall, eight meters high, being built around and inside your city. Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and being told that you have five minutes to leave your house because it's going to be demolished by the army's bulldozers. Imagine international sanctions because you voted for the "wrong" political party.
This is what everyday life looks like in Lebanon and Palestine right now. This is just some of the ways that the Palestinian and Lebanese people are being collectively punished by the military supreme Israel. The latest weeks we have heard Israeli officials claim that what they are going to do is to "bomb Lebanon 20 years back" and to "make sure that no one in Gaza can sleep". And this goes on right now, right before our eyes.
What would happen if let's say Iran or Sweden or Russia invaded or occupied your country? What would the UN, USA or EU say and do? What is it that makes Arab lives – Palestinian and Lebanese – less valuable in the eyes of the world than your life and our lives? Why aren't we doing anything? The Israeli occupation of Palestine and the attacks on civilians in Lebanon are serious and obvious crimes against international law and human rights.
Our thoughts are with our brothers and sisters in Palestine and Lebanon.
Peace in the Middle East! Justice for Palestine and Lebanon!
The (international) Noise Conspiracy
-The Black Mask Sub-committee of Violence and passion.
www.palestinemonitor.org
www.electronicintifada.net/lebanon
www.electronicintifada.net
www.palsolidarity.org
www.dci-pal.org
www.stopthewall.org
www.humanitarianinfo.org
www.hrw.org
www.zmag.org
Saturday, 9 October 2010
.12. Ready steady go! - The celebration of passion and resistance
Assuming control over creativity and productivity:
Words and images, which surround us constantly - more now than ever - are the language of power. We are totally inundated with commercials and propaganda, everywhere. It's not manipulation, nor a conspiracy. It's the expression of a paradigm which has cast its web over the globe - formulating divisions of labour, using and shaping 'culture', ensuring its evolution, and thus contradicting itself through exploitation and alienation. The paradigm is ours, as is the language, and the imagery which represents it. Alienation is for everyone now, because it is now more than it ever was. It is total. Some won't recognise it, and others revel in it, but all of us feel it. It's easy to be attuned to it in the working class or as a student - it feels like total futility. One is more attuned to alienation when one can't afford to fool and distract themselves with bourgeois luxury, or in the converse, when, through education, one is purchasing boredom and functionalist thoughts in hopes of empowering their life. Will it? Only in so much as you can transcend it - only in its negation. The purpose of being a student now is to redefine that role. In a sense, to use creative and productive energy in opposition to the social forces that seek to harness it for a benefit alienated from yourself. The same applies to broader society. There is a practical manner in which we can combat total alienation - using its means against itself. That is using the means of creativity and productivity against the social paradigm that guides them. As for creative power, we can start with language and images. Every word, image, phrase or scene has a contrasting counterpart which can alter its meaning entirely and critique it. Dada knew it and accordingly was a fantastic reflection and critique of society. Drink from the toilet. Warhol knew it when he painted Monroe's lips a hundred times. The Situationalists articulated it and lived it (and not only in Paris 1968). The word 'propaganda' condescends the concept we're referring to, although to a degree that's what it is. To use this word in its condescending sense is to fail to recognise that everything is or can be propaganda. A more appropriate concept is that of 'satire'. We can stifle the alienation of our creative power through critique, humiliation, insult and self-criticism. Its object should be larger than its subject however: to redefine and reorganise the social control over creative and productive forces in opposition to alienation. After the critique of creative power we are left with the practical side of our social life production. The DIY festival is a powerful example of the assumption of productive organisation on the part of the political community. Insurrection is its broader social counterpart. The former redefines productive energy in its own terms, taking massive organisation into its own hands (even if its goal is only a forum for boring music), while the latter is popular resistance and refusal of the control over creative and productive power. What's next? Is the DIY festival followed by the creation of our own airlines, and is insurrection followed by revolution? If alienation stifles and co-opts creative and productive energy for its own benefit, then satire, self-reliance and resistance redefine them in rejection of alienation.
Much more can be said on these matter. Go ahead.
-The Black Mask Sub-committee of Violence and passion.
Words and images, which surround us constantly - more now than ever - are the language of power. We are totally inundated with commercials and propaganda, everywhere. It's not manipulation, nor a conspiracy. It's the expression of a paradigm which has cast its web over the globe - formulating divisions of labour, using and shaping 'culture', ensuring its evolution, and thus contradicting itself through exploitation and alienation. The paradigm is ours, as is the language, and the imagery which represents it. Alienation is for everyone now, because it is now more than it ever was. It is total. Some won't recognise it, and others revel in it, but all of us feel it. It's easy to be attuned to it in the working class or as a student - it feels like total futility. One is more attuned to alienation when one can't afford to fool and distract themselves with bourgeois luxury, or in the converse, when, through education, one is purchasing boredom and functionalist thoughts in hopes of empowering their life. Will it? Only in so much as you can transcend it - only in its negation. The purpose of being a student now is to redefine that role. In a sense, to use creative and productive energy in opposition to the social forces that seek to harness it for a benefit alienated from yourself. The same applies to broader society. There is a practical manner in which we can combat total alienation - using its means against itself. That is using the means of creativity and productivity against the social paradigm that guides them. As for creative power, we can start with language and images. Every word, image, phrase or scene has a contrasting counterpart which can alter its meaning entirely and critique it. Dada knew it and accordingly was a fantastic reflection and critique of society. Drink from the toilet. Warhol knew it when he painted Monroe's lips a hundred times. The Situationalists articulated it and lived it (and not only in Paris 1968). The word 'propaganda' condescends the concept we're referring to, although to a degree that's what it is. To use this word in its condescending sense is to fail to recognise that everything is or can be propaganda. A more appropriate concept is that of 'satire'. We can stifle the alienation of our creative power through critique, humiliation, insult and self-criticism. Its object should be larger than its subject however: to redefine and reorganise the social control over creative and productive forces in opposition to alienation. After the critique of creative power we are left with the practical side of our social life production. The DIY festival is a powerful example of the assumption of productive organisation on the part of the political community. Insurrection is its broader social counterpart. The former redefines productive energy in its own terms, taking massive organisation into its own hands (even if its goal is only a forum for boring music), while the latter is popular resistance and refusal of the control over creative and productive power. What's next? Is the DIY festival followed by the creation of our own airlines, and is insurrection followed by revolution? If alienation stifles and co-opts creative and productive energy for its own benefit, then satire, self-reliance and resistance redefine them in rejection of alienation.
Much more can be said on these matter. Go ahead.
-The Black Mask Sub-committee of Violence and passion.
.11. Enslavement blues - We are all cultural prostitutes
The perception of time:
The timeline, hours chopped into minutes into seconds into the measurements on living. Life is lived on the basis of time consumed. The standardisation of time in the 19th century was well in tune with the industrialisation's maximum usage of labour power, the need to increase profit. We learn to accept the fact that days are nothing but blocks of time to be consumed. The schematics of living is nurtured from the institutionalised learning facilities also known as schools, also known as breeding grounds for future slaves.
The perception of the room:
The working place, the living place, the consumption place, the enjoyment place; all life reduced to cubicles determining the role you have to play in order to live. Our economical/cultural settings of building spae has not only been reduced to the mere storage of commodities (home) but also to the production of life (theme parks and movie theatres), the accumulation of capital (work) and the consumption of the same capital (malls and chainstores and so on). Living has been reduced to the economy of space.
The perception of self:
Having life reduced to the time/space setting of consumer capitalism means that you are, no matter how hard you try, a part of the commodity abundance that circulates around us and as long as we are living in a system where this is the "law", this relationship will never change. We are paying to live in a system that is based on the usage of humans, we get used to the realisation that the objects that we produce take on more meaning than the producers, we get used to feeling alienated and used. We get survival sickness.
-The Black Mask Sub-committee of Violence and passion.
The timeline, hours chopped into minutes into seconds into the measurements on living. Life is lived on the basis of time consumed. The standardisation of time in the 19th century was well in tune with the industrialisation's maximum usage of labour power, the need to increase profit. We learn to accept the fact that days are nothing but blocks of time to be consumed. The schematics of living is nurtured from the institutionalised learning facilities also known as schools, also known as breeding grounds for future slaves.
The perception of the room:
The working place, the living place, the consumption place, the enjoyment place; all life reduced to cubicles determining the role you have to play in order to live. Our economical/cultural settings of building spae has not only been reduced to the mere storage of commodities (home) but also to the production of life (theme parks and movie theatres), the accumulation of capital (work) and the consumption of the same capital (malls and chainstores and so on). Living has been reduced to the economy of space.
The perception of self:
Having life reduced to the time/space setting of consumer capitalism means that you are, no matter how hard you try, a part of the commodity abundance that circulates around us and as long as we are living in a system where this is the "law", this relationship will never change. We are paying to live in a system that is based on the usage of humans, we get used to the realisation that the objects that we produce take on more meaning than the producers, we get used to feeling alienated and used. We get survival sickness.
-The Black Mask Sub-committee of Violence and passion.
.10. Will it ever be quiet? - The joyous sounds of progress or ...
Do you remember when it was quiet down here? Do you remember when it was quiet anywhere??? Before the industrialisation, before the factories, before the planes and before the trains and cars and busses. Before The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and punkrock, before MTV, before commercials, before headaches and tinnitus, before inner city fumes and pollution, before the sounds of computers and cash registers.
Noise - silence, relationship in a sinking ship, drags us under and turns us deaf from the roaring of the marketplace. But in secret and in effect there might be a few daring forces using the apparatus available to produce counter sounds, to make so much noise that one day there will be at least a moment of relief. Guided by the mechanism produced during thousands of years and oppression, constructed by the suffering of a million men and women, we must overthrow the relationship between the abuse of noise and the creation of noise and thank the industrialisation for making us amplify our manifestos and enables us to sing and scream and dance.
-The Black Mask Sub-committee of Violence and passion.
Noise - silence, relationship in a sinking ship, drags us under and turns us deaf from the roaring of the marketplace. But in secret and in effect there might be a few daring forces using the apparatus available to produce counter sounds, to make so much noise that one day there will be at least a moment of relief. Guided by the mechanism produced during thousands of years and oppression, constructed by the suffering of a million men and women, we must overthrow the relationship between the abuse of noise and the creation of noise and thank the industrialisation for making us amplify our manifestos and enables us to sing and scream and dance.
-The Black Mask Sub-committee of Violence and passion.
.9. Do I have to spell it out - Smash the neo-liberal agenda
organist//n.the player of an organ.
organize//v. tr.(also-ise) 1 a give an orderly structure to, systemize. b bring the affairs of (another person or oneself) into order; make arrangements for (a person). 2 a arrange for or initiate (a scheme etc.). b provide; take responsibility for (organize a wildcatstrike). 3 (often. absol.) a enroll (new members) in a trade union, political group etc. b form (a trade union or other political group). 4 a enable (a group or oneself) to offer resistance against the oppressive discourse of capitalist leadership (the man). b provide a theoretical foundation to understand the fascism-generating structures of the widely differentiated labourmarket (scapegoating so called immigrants would not be as much an issue of ethnicity, but one of class). 5 a promote a less instrumental use of traditional learning facilities (schools, libraries etc.). b encourage learning beyond mere survival. 6 smash the neo-liberal dream. 7 a support the overtaking of the workplace, thus enabling people to build their own communities and fly their own airplanes (see the AAA for space exploration). b give confidence (to a person or group of persons) to realise that heroism can and will be achieved by all. 8 a confirm the suspicion that people are more than a professional title. b encourage the change of (old, boring, forced etc.) identities (see #6). 9 a give meaning to the old abbreviations (CNT, SAC, IWW etc.).b when the time is right, remove the meaning from above mentioned abbreviations (showing that further divisions are most unwanted). 10 a take it into one's own hands. b do i have to spell it out?
orgy//n.(pl.-ies) 1 a wild drunken festivity at which indiscriminate sexual activity takes place. 2 excessive indulgence in an activity. 3 (usu. inpl.)Gk. & Rom. Hist. secret rites used in the worship of esp. Bacchus, celebrated with dancing, drunkenness, singing etc.
-The Black Mask Sub-committee of Violence and passion.
organize//v. tr.(also-ise) 1 a give an orderly structure to, systemize. b bring the affairs of (another person or oneself) into order; make arrangements for (a person). 2 a arrange for or initiate (a scheme etc.). b provide; take responsibility for (organize a wildcatstrike). 3 (often. absol.) a enroll (new members) in a trade union, political group etc. b form (a trade union or other political group). 4 a enable (a group or oneself) to offer resistance against the oppressive discourse of capitalist leadership (the man). b provide a theoretical foundation to understand the fascism-generating structures of the widely differentiated labourmarket (scapegoating so called immigrants would not be as much an issue of ethnicity, but one of class). 5 a promote a less instrumental use of traditional learning facilities (schools, libraries etc.). b encourage learning beyond mere survival. 6 smash the neo-liberal dream. 7 a support the overtaking of the workplace, thus enabling people to build their own communities and fly their own airplanes (see the AAA for space exploration). b give confidence (to a person or group of persons) to realise that heroism can and will be achieved by all. 8 a confirm the suspicion that people are more than a professional title. b encourage the change of (old, boring, forced etc.) identities (see #6). 9 a give meaning to the old abbreviations (CNT, SAC, IWW etc.).b when the time is right, remove the meaning from above mentioned abbreviations (showing that further divisions are most unwanted). 10 a take it into one's own hands. b do i have to spell it out?
orgy//n.(pl.-ies) 1 a wild drunken festivity at which indiscriminate sexual activity takes place. 2 excessive indulgence in an activity. 3 (usu. inpl.)Gk. & Rom. Hist. secret rites used in the worship of esp. Bacchus, celebrated with dancing, drunkenness, singing etc.
-The Black Mask Sub-committee of Violence and passion.
.8. Only lovers left alive - True romance
excerpts from a diary found in the year 2009
...for the first time in my life I can taste the true excitement. With sweat running down my back and a smile on my face, it is difficult to even type this out. It isn't an accident or even strange that it is happening, it had been in the works for ages, but it finally seemed like now is the time. For too long we accepted high rising concrete buildings and pollution and inner city traffic, experts, doctors, bosses and politicians fucking us up. Somehow along the way we got used to never feeling fulfilled or happy, we got used to taking drugs to cure our depression and to cure our alienation. We got used to working 8 hours a day producing commodities, and becoming commodities and buying commodities. We got used to spending our lives in a sedated state, of never living, just surviving. But today all that is changing, the little secret that we all shared was being revealed to the world. Now i am almost running, my legs can't stop and i am too exhilarated to slow down. On the corner beneath the streetlight I meet up with a comrade, she is smiling, not hiding the passion that she feels. We hug and exchange a few short phrases. She met some other people on the way over that confirmed that it is finally happening. There are no cops on the streets just people, young and beautiful and alive walking in groups or alone, down to the square. There are no leaders, no unions, or parties behind it. Most people don't really know what is going on but they could feel the air was different, breathable, alive. You see, the universal idea of resistance and rebellion that had been lurking under modern ways of production had suddenly sprung to life, no one even needed to say it out loud. Suddenly people stopped working, they stopped listening to the bosses and the self acclaimed leaders, people started to deconstruct the oppression that had been over them for years, for their entire lives. It is a beautiful occurence, the city is filled with colours and flags and people saying hello to each other and kissing passionately with strangers. Music is coming from buildings all over and people are dancing on every rooftop, in every alleyway. The old conservative forces will try to prevent it for a short whilebut their attempts will be futile, most of their attacks will end in humiliation. There will be a couple of days of fighting but everyday more and more people will throw off their uniforms and join in with the ranks of celebratiing, passionate, revolutionaries that are taking over the city. Things are being built at a faster rate than the old culture is being dismantled, and after a few days the city will totally change character, the only cars you will ever see used only for driving food or other necessities. About two weeks after the first signs of insurrection something will happen, the old and ugly will gather in a park down by the harbour where they will kill themselves with Easyways sleeping pills. They do it because it is clear to them that we will never let the world go back to what it was and that will be too much for some to deal with. Now it belongs to us, the passionate, the young, the loving. Now it is up to us. Now there are only lovers left alive. As i rush to the square with my friends and many others that I will from now on call comrade or lover or sister, I cry openly. This is nothing short of everything that we could have ever dreamed of. This is the beginning and now it is up to us. Now begins the creation of our history, this is our time, away from the production line, this is a time like never before; this is revolution...
-The Black Mask Sub-committee of Violence and passion
...for the first time in my life I can taste the true excitement. With sweat running down my back and a smile on my face, it is difficult to even type this out. It isn't an accident or even strange that it is happening, it had been in the works for ages, but it finally seemed like now is the time. For too long we accepted high rising concrete buildings and pollution and inner city traffic, experts, doctors, bosses and politicians fucking us up. Somehow along the way we got used to never feeling fulfilled or happy, we got used to taking drugs to cure our depression and to cure our alienation. We got used to working 8 hours a day producing commodities, and becoming commodities and buying commodities. We got used to spending our lives in a sedated state, of never living, just surviving. But today all that is changing, the little secret that we all shared was being revealed to the world. Now i am almost running, my legs can't stop and i am too exhilarated to slow down. On the corner beneath the streetlight I meet up with a comrade, she is smiling, not hiding the passion that she feels. We hug and exchange a few short phrases. She met some other people on the way over that confirmed that it is finally happening. There are no cops on the streets just people, young and beautiful and alive walking in groups or alone, down to the square. There are no leaders, no unions, or parties behind it. Most people don't really know what is going on but they could feel the air was different, breathable, alive. You see, the universal idea of resistance and rebellion that had been lurking under modern ways of production had suddenly sprung to life, no one even needed to say it out loud. Suddenly people stopped working, they stopped listening to the bosses and the self acclaimed leaders, people started to deconstruct the oppression that had been over them for years, for their entire lives. It is a beautiful occurence, the city is filled with colours and flags and people saying hello to each other and kissing passionately with strangers. Music is coming from buildings all over and people are dancing on every rooftop, in every alleyway. The old conservative forces will try to prevent it for a short whilebut their attempts will be futile, most of their attacks will end in humiliation. There will be a couple of days of fighting but everyday more and more people will throw off their uniforms and join in with the ranks of celebratiing, passionate, revolutionaries that are taking over the city. Things are being built at a faster rate than the old culture is being dismantled, and after a few days the city will totally change character, the only cars you will ever see used only for driving food or other necessities. About two weeks after the first signs of insurrection something will happen, the old and ugly will gather in a park down by the harbour where they will kill themselves with Easyways sleeping pills. They do it because it is clear to them that we will never let the world go back to what it was and that will be too much for some to deal with. Now it belongs to us, the passionate, the young, the loving. Now it is up to us. Now there are only lovers left alive. As i rush to the square with my friends and many others that I will from now on call comrade or lover or sister, I cry openly. This is nothing short of everything that we could have ever dreamed of. This is the beginning and now it is up to us. Now begins the creation of our history, this is our time, away from the production line, this is a time like never before; this is revolution...
-The Black Mask Sub-committee of Violence and passion
.7. Intermission - A time to contemplate
Summation of the Black Mask sub-committee of Creative Noise and Activity's Finding with regards to the Imposition of Limiting Hierarchies, Norms, Standards, and Structures upon the Cultural Expression of groups and individuals through the reduction of the Creative Process to an Economic Formula and the Marginalisation of individuals wishing to pursue their creative potential regardless of the economic, political, or social implications of doing so:
The Album that you are now holding in your hands right now [taken from the liner notes of The (International Noise Conspiracy) Survival Sickness] has nothing to do with creativity. "Creativity" as we would like to define it is a process, an engagement, the meeting place of the mind and spirit. Most importantly, it is something experienced. What you have right now is a dull reflection of that process, nothing more than the waste products of someone else's experience. While hopefully you will enjoy listening to the music, find some of the ideas interesting and stimulating, and appreciate our product, don't allow yourself to to believe that you can be involved in the proess when you press PLAY or see the band live. The Creative Process is present tense, this album is past tense, and the stage is a funeral parlor where things long deceased are displayed for public approval.
For too long people have bought into the discourse surrounding creativity. In a world where economic influences and 'moral' imperatives prevail, creativity has been objectfied so that it can be rationalised and consumerised. The focus is on the things produced and the social and economic value of them. Products have to be consumed, profits have to be made, and the social structure shouldn't be disturbed. Vast art, music, and publishing industries, in cahoots with their bedfellows in marketing, advertising and mass media define and direct creativity, all the determining its 'value'. Radios, TVs, Top 40 countdowns, Critics, Bestseller Lists, and magazines at the grocery store check out counters tell us what to listen to, what to read, whta movies to see, where to eat, who is funny, and what colours will be 'IN' for the next fashion season. We sit idly by as most modes for 'creative expression' are funneled through corporate boardrooms.
Not only is the creative process bastardised into a sculpted edifice of consumerism, with pre-ordained direction handed down from the front offices in the guise of a cultural elite, but the standards imposed serve to undermine creativity in its purest form at all levels. This can be seen in the construction of distinctions, roles, structures, and hierarchies that serve to confine the potential of the creative process while limiting possible interaction with it. The creative 'haves' and 'have nots' become necessary components within this system, with a privileged few allowed to be involved. But even those acknowledged as as creative are nothing more than cultural whores, selling their wares IF they play by the rules. And for everyone else "REALITY" is the weapon that is used to beat down all interest in being creative. People are constantly urged by all around them to be productive, to 'make a living', and relegate the creative aspects of their lives, their dreams, to pastime activities done in their spare time. There's no money in that and artists, poets, musicians, and writers are all fools with no grounding in the real world. We are either not good enough or it is not practical enough. The question that should be asked is why anyone would want grounding in a 'real world' that is obsessed with competition and profit, limited in vision, destructive in it's nature, and where everyone's standard fare is alienation and suppression of potential?
One of the aims of this product is to urge people to engage in their own creative processes and NEVER be satisfied recapitulating reproductions of someone else's. Unfettered creativity is one of the most powerful manifestations of subversion possible, for it offers us all a taste of freedom.
-The Black Mask Sub-committee of Violence and passion
The Album that you are now holding in your hands right now [taken from the liner notes of The (International Noise Conspiracy) Survival Sickness] has nothing to do with creativity. "Creativity" as we would like to define it is a process, an engagement, the meeting place of the mind and spirit. Most importantly, it is something experienced. What you have right now is a dull reflection of that process, nothing more than the waste products of someone else's experience. While hopefully you will enjoy listening to the music, find some of the ideas interesting and stimulating, and appreciate our product, don't allow yourself to to believe that you can be involved in the proess when you press PLAY or see the band live. The Creative Process is present tense, this album is past tense, and the stage is a funeral parlor where things long deceased are displayed for public approval.
For too long people have bought into the discourse surrounding creativity. In a world where economic influences and 'moral' imperatives prevail, creativity has been objectfied so that it can be rationalised and consumerised. The focus is on the things produced and the social and economic value of them. Products have to be consumed, profits have to be made, and the social structure shouldn't be disturbed. Vast art, music, and publishing industries, in cahoots with their bedfellows in marketing, advertising and mass media define and direct creativity, all the determining its 'value'. Radios, TVs, Top 40 countdowns, Critics, Bestseller Lists, and magazines at the grocery store check out counters tell us what to listen to, what to read, whta movies to see, where to eat, who is funny, and what colours will be 'IN' for the next fashion season. We sit idly by as most modes for 'creative expression' are funneled through corporate boardrooms.
Not only is the creative process bastardised into a sculpted edifice of consumerism, with pre-ordained direction handed down from the front offices in the guise of a cultural elite, but the standards imposed serve to undermine creativity in its purest form at all levels. This can be seen in the construction of distinctions, roles, structures, and hierarchies that serve to confine the potential of the creative process while limiting possible interaction with it. The creative 'haves' and 'have nots' become necessary components within this system, with a privileged few allowed to be involved. But even those acknowledged as as creative are nothing more than cultural whores, selling their wares IF they play by the rules. And for everyone else "REALITY" is the weapon that is used to beat down all interest in being creative. People are constantly urged by all around them to be productive, to 'make a living', and relegate the creative aspects of their lives, their dreams, to pastime activities done in their spare time. There's no money in that and artists, poets, musicians, and writers are all fools with no grounding in the real world. We are either not good enough or it is not practical enough. The question that should be asked is why anyone would want grounding in a 'real world' that is obsessed with competition and profit, limited in vision, destructive in it's nature, and where everyone's standard fare is alienation and suppression of potential?
One of the aims of this product is to urge people to engage in their own creative processes and NEVER be satisfied recapitulating reproductions of someone else's. Unfettered creativity is one of the most powerful manifestations of subversion possible, for it offers us all a taste of freedom.
-The Black Mask Sub-committee of Violence and passion
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