Sunday 24 February 2008

Celebrating Life- A Basic Human Right



Entertainment and Leisure are a funny thing. In spite of the fact that our rulers tell us how free we are, they really love to tell us what are acceptable ways to have fun. In business and industry, any freedom is allowed. Make yourself rich off the backs of Chinese slave labour till your hearts content, but your recreational time should be spent either down the gym or in front of the TV.

God forbid that you should indulge in any kind of life affirming social activity where boundaries between people are broken down.

It's just another part of the mind control system. People getting drunk and collapsing in the street in piles of vomit is OK. That's a GOOD drug. It's a good drug, because drunken people aren't really coherant. True, drunken people do bond, but the sense disappears from the conversation after a few drinks.

The great myth of modern times is the way the dance scene is presented. Ecstasy is equated with heroin, presented as a social evil.

Proof of the pudding is in the facts. Heroin deaths never make the news, they happen every day. Alcohol deaths never make the news, they happen every day.

How long is it going to take politicians to stand up and admit that no one has ever died from taking pure Ecstasy?
The handful of deaths from this chemical, which are so few and far between, are in the main caused by 'dirty' pills, by drinking too much water, in the mistaken belief that drinking as much water as you can is necessary, or in a few cases from an allergic reaction, which is as statistically likely as someone dieing of a peanut allergy.

Basically, legalise it, NO ONE DIES.

It's not Ecstasy that is the target, just as Cannabis wasn't the target in the sixties. These things are outlawed to try break up the culture that goes with these things. Beatniks do it, you don't like Beatniks, so pretend that Cannabis is as bad as Opium.

It's the same with Ecstasy. The fact is, it was used for many long years as an AID to psychotherapy and marriage guidance counselling, for the simple reason, it opens people up.

What they really hate about dance culture, is a group of people who have found a way to enjoy themselves, without having earned it. Pleasure just shouldn't be that easy.
Slave for capitalism, get a new kitchen on installments, pay by Mastercard.

THAT'S how you should be happy.

What's worse, people come back from clubbing and spend hours talking, in states of heightened consciousness. And what sorts of things do you think they talk about?
Bad for a society built on divide and rule principles.

This next track, is my mobile phone ringtone.



I wish people would open their eyes. Dance culture is a triumph of human ingenuity, a triumph of the advances we as a species have made.

We are able to create pleasure in amazing new ways, ways in fact, free from harm.

Anyone who has actually been to a dance club knows what I mean. These aren't temples of debauchery, they are places where people go to celebrate life, and yes, it is almost a religous experience, it is transcendant, it is uplifting, it is liberating.

It is people freed from the false personas they live as, free from the chains of the nine to five.
It is people, just for a short period giving their love for the world, for life, for experience, for eachother, with a freedom not normally seen.

Of course that scares the powers that be.

But in future generations, we will look at this as one of the great social triumphs of our age. Synthetic pleasure, is not a bad thing, it is not unnatural, it works with us to press our buttons, to enrich our life experience.
Chocolate eclairs do not grow on trees either, we made them.

Dance Music is a technological triumph. The history of Music has been a history of greater understanding of which rhythms, which harmonies greater energise us, allow our minds to transcend our physical existence, stimulate thought and passion.
Mozart and Beethoven were great trailblazers, but theirs is still a primitive technology.

Modern technology allows us to produce symphonies which Mozart would have believed were made in Heaven.

This last track, I believe, WAS made in Heaven.



I firmly believe that very little good has come out of our time.

But this? This is something great, this will outlive the downfall of this system, and it will be embraced by future generations.

I hope, a hundred years from now, there is no Friday night TV, no Friday night fighting.
Let future generations celebrate the end of another working week in rooms full of love and euphoria.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

"
How long is it going to take politicians to stand up and admit that no one has ever died from taking pure Ecstasy?
The handful of deaths from this chemical, which are so few and far between, are in the main caused by 'dirty' pills, by drinking too much water, in the mistaken belief that drinking as much water as you can is necessary, or in a few cases from an allergic reaction, which is as statistically likely as someone dieing of a peanut allergy.

Basically, legalise it, NO ONE DIES."

You have missed the point entirely. The problem with XTC is ecstasy, or artificially induced euphoria.

It isn't about health or death or safety.

It s about achieving any amount of euphoria which is not derived from religious belief or hard work.

Anything else is: Blasphemy, heresy, and cheating, which takes more from God than he gave you, and intemperance.

Until and unless we derail the moral high-ground argument that intoxication is a sin and a privilege, and not a right.

As intoxication is not a right, neither can choice of intoxicant be of free choice.

Anonymous said...

Well each to his or her own way of enjoying leisure time however this would not be my cup of tea, even were I young enough to pursue it.

You know my feelings on mind-altering substances, none of which are totally safe or with predictable results and therefore are social evils. It's bad enough when one has to take drugs for medicinal purposes. Why take them unnecessarily and risk dangerous side effects? We'll just have to agree to disagree on this subject.

As to alcohol, it's not a good drug either if taken to the extent that it alters the mind and behaviour.

How can you tell when this trance style music comes to an end? It seems like an endless cycle of rhythm but maybe it would be good for running or at the gym.:)


I firmly believe that very little good has come out of our time.


Crushed look around you. Every day amazing advances are made in technology and medicine. Absolute triumphs for man.

Is Mr Johnson for or against? I can't be quite sure.

Anonymous said...

I don't think we can say it's harmless as we don't know the long-term consequences yet. A lot of the icons of my own generation are dying in their 50s and I wonder if this is drug-related.

Anonymous said...

ERJ- I'm with jmb, I'm not really sure what your position is, if your remarks are tongue in cheek, good comment, if not, well, I'll move on.

jmb- :) It's one I am aware I am in a minority on.
It's about pros and cons. Everything has pros and cons, with most things there is use and abuse. Prohibition ancourages ABuse.

In terms of actually dancing to this, the term I prefer, is psychosomatic.

I meant in social terms little good can said of our era. It's an era of people sitting in boxes looking at boxes.
The dance scene is a very positive place, in social terms.

Welshcakes- I think it's safe to say, it causes less harm than alcohol. And it's certainly more rewarding, if kept in moderation.

I'm not a fan of alcohol- though I drink more than is recommended, mainly because it's the accepted way to unwind. I like pubs as a social activity, but I often envy the good burghers of Amsterdam :)

Anonymous said...

"I firmly believe that very little good has come out of our time." Couldn't argue with that. The dumbness of trying to control drug use through making it illegal (prohibition has never worked) is spectacular and so is the hypocrisy of collecting taxes from cigarettes and alcohol. In fact these things are so obvious that I have come to think they are not trying to limit drug use thru the law they are only trying to criminalise a section of the population who are capable of thinking differently. If there was no Ecstacy would be there no dance music? Surely only someone nicely cooked could listen to it. Haha.

Anonymous said...

I've seen too many pictures of fried mouse neurons from ecstasy to try it-- the joys of too much knowledge, I guess.
However, the power of music I can agree with wholeheartedly. It amazes me how people can be so oblivious or closed off to it.