A 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 transcendens
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 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 35 Hz 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 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 us
was truly born.
We continue to pack our bodies into clubs, or warehouses, or buildings
you´ve abandonded 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 inhibitations, and free ourselves from
the shackles and restraints you´ve put on us for you own peace of mind.
We seek to re-write the programming that you have tried to
indoctrinate us with since 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 hol 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 opening them.
Until the sun rises to burn our eyes by revealing the distopian
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 extstence.
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.
