The new puritanism : part#1 : suppression of music and dancing :
how can a civilization at the end of the twentieth century enact legislation aimed at killing its peoples wishes to dance ? What kind of disgusting oppressive rulers would be offended by people dancing and being happy ? What difference really is there between this and the historical puritanism of centuries gone by, when dancing and revelry was forbidden by a corrupt church who were offended by people experiencing joy ? In the nineteen nineties the “criminal justice act” was introduced, a whopping dose of state fed poison aimed at laying to rest once and for all the prevalent youth-rave culture of the day. For the first time in the United Kingdoms history, laws took effect that meant people were to be arrested for no other reason than that they were intending to have a party. The obscene and negative significance of this cannot be overestimated. The rave scene had become strong by the early nineties a psychedelic bonding had come into existence, a new freedom, a new way, a positivity and happiness that didn’t even need alcohol that was deeply offensive to the powers that be. The whole rave scene, but particularly, the free-party scene brought a new vision that, left unchecked, would have been powerful enough to funnel out into the mainstream of society. The rave culture was also being suppressed about towns and cities in nightclubs. “sinister goons”, “bullies” – – call them what you will are quite normally bouncers. They often randomly manhandle people who are minding their own business and tell them forcefully to leave. Sometimes, they may suddenly attack such people from behind, putting them in an arm-lock, then roughly escorting them to the exit. When people are attacked like this, it is their natural inclination, perhaps uninhibited by alcohol, to become violent. In the times this writer has been in these establishments, he has witnessed this “security” behave like this many times both to himself and others. The combinationn of conciosness-reducing narcotic alcohol, and open, unprovoked provocation and deliberate causation ofviolencee by government sponsored thugs is a recipe for the opposite of relaxation. The opposite then, of leisure. At a psychedelicized free-party in a field, people will just relax and let go, cuddling and loving one another. In the situation described earlier, whether they are personally involved, or a bystander personally uninvolved, the general effect is to create an atmosphere where you cannot relax. People can't open up and just keep dancing, or cuddle, or be loved up. The less relaxation there is, the more violence there is, the more there appears to be a need for the “security” in this designed vicious circle. The more violence there is, the more crime there is also, thus keeping the police happy and apparently justifying their state. I'm not saying that all bouncers act in the fashion described earlier, but many of them do, and it is normal for them to. This writer even was employed for a very brief stint as security at a festival; here is an instruction from the pamphlet issued with the job: (STEWARDS SHOULD NEVER) show celebration or enjoyment of the event at which they are working. It is your official duty then to create as actual an aura of negativity around yourself as possible ? How are these words really to be interpreted ? What happened to smiling, friendly security ? They are ordered to be totally anti- the spirit of leisurely freedom of any true festival. We don’t need these people. They kill the vibe. Increasingly, the entire music scene is absolutely controlled and owned by the few elite players. “Hawkwind”, who sung of staying cool by being an urban guerilla, (“...gotta stay cool on the
front line...”; “...Mr. petrol bomb destructor man...”) now illustrate the advertising of “our Ford”. Are “Hawkwind” aural agent provocateurs ? “Donovan” is too scared to sing a line nowadays from one of his feel-good songs (check “Mellow yellow”) the charts are being totally dominated by substance-less “acceptable” garbage consistently being sold through huge public relations campaigns. Glastonbury festival, traditionally home of rebellion and alternatives, is nowadays the home of the worship of authority which isn’t even in the United Kingdom (check the “Obama” signs in the crowds). The video-screenss are used to brainwash the crowd (check “Beyonce”s clip sequence in her set, showing the history of African Americans struggle against racist injustice climaxing with a clip of Obama). Many songs were censored criticizing the “conflicts” in the middle east. This writer almost had the line “let the peace reign, fly like doves” surgically removed by the producer from his “Children in need” recording “Cant you see”. He saved it by pretending that it meant nothing. The only lyrics that are acceptable to authority nowadays, are either words which mean nothing or which glamorise negativity. This writers song made with the same producer as previously mentioned (All About Jack) was written as an example of a song written very purposefully to mean nothing at all. This was at the suggestion of the producer, the authority figure of the team. He was very intentional that it should mean nothing. This writer managed to get the song shown on television as backing to a snowboarding programme. As others involved in the production have noted, it just seemed to upset the authority establishment involved. Shouldn’t they have been pleased ? In my opinion the governing status quo is scared of music and hates it very much. It is only allowed in our “free” society when it supports capitalism and the establishment. Any form of free expression in any art or music is very threatening to their fascistic repressive order. Ladies and gentlemen, artists and performers, they only pretend to like us. It is vitally important to them that all musical artists sell out. If that’s not through selling their music to adverts that’s through accepting their awards. Their trick is to blind people to their own importance. Importance is a state of mind. If people remembered words do mean something, but that selling them to corporations means that they own that meaning, they wouldn’t do this would they ? If they took themselves a little more seriously, instead of focusing only on acquiring yet more wealth, when they may already be millionaires, wont they realise that their music has a certain energy and power, but that if that song is reduced to mere monetary material worth, its message can be bent and twisted to represent any product, any symbol of the capitalistic control-system-”free” market then all the poetic energy the ditty originally stirred is then lost, and we have lost music, that ancient shamanistic gift, as a voice of the people, of free expression, unable to be expressed elsewhere; as a way to convey any meaning whatsoever, as once it has been used as corny advertising jingle, it could never really mean anything again, we have sewn our cultures lips tightly shut. A playful, ancient, noble freedom music may contain for instance a protest against an injustice of the fat controllers, it may be the only way in our “democracy” that a protest may be voiced, and any power to affect change that that protest had is then negated as soon as some cheesy brand logo is stamped onto the corner of it. this may be then, the fat cat god of capitalism burning out every alternative ideology be it faith or science and replacing them with itself. There is a general demonisation of the art of lyricism. Through the systems capitalistic commercial conspiracy it is generally only possible now to get really good sales of any meaningful lyric containing music if it glamorises stupid and terrible behaviour. The words are also usually crafted to link horrendous behaviour (such as rape and murder) with drug taking. The effect of this on peoples perceptions in the minds of the many different people who hear the music (whether they intend to or not) is to link the “crime”, say, of smoking pot, very inaccurately, with the tendency to commit
generally abhorrent crime. It also generally demonizes songsters. Yet people who do murder people, including children, we are forced to mentally worship as heroes (soldiers).