Auszüge aus dem Booklet des Albums ‚Survival Sickness’ der selbsternannten subversiven Gruppe. Den Namen der Gruppe schreibe ich bewusst nicht hin, weil diese Jungs ja sicher nicht auf’s Geld verdienen aus sind und vielmehr höhere Ziele verfolgen. Das Booklet (und der verführerische Titel) ist auch das einzig Gute an der CD.... Texthervorhebungen stammen von mir. (ob)

In a time where decision is made by experts and bosses and leaders and rockstars and where we, from day one, was taught not to question, not to ask, end up knowing what we need to know and not what we ought to know. In the domain of leader menality we get taught that there is always someone who knows better, looks better and creates better than we do, making sure that we always be followers, that we will always be sheep. If we never ask why there will never be any sort of change at all… but the fact that we remain ignorant is also the same trajectory that allows production and consumption to be the almighty gods of modern culture…

The parameters of the modern ways of production force us to guide creativity into certain areas where it is safe and where the capital can co-opt it in a secure way… Music is nothing but an abstraction of an old and dull idea of bourgeois self-realization, the self made success of the creative artist, thus leaving the rest to choke in the dust, settled to consume “creativity” in a boring package. Artists become nostalgia items repeating the same boring phrases over and over again, and the consumer become consumer of boredom and alienation. The taste for change gets satisfied in a change of taste….We settle for second rate emotions and for the copy instead of the original outburst of life…. Marx said that when we are free  we will all be artists and that is the essence of the subversive sound, everything to everyone……so that we can all live and create in ways unheard of by the boring people.

Redecorate the street signs that all traffic will end up in the water.

Cross out words like truth, oppression and boredom in every dictionary.

Go to art museums and sneak your own your own work into displays.

Run for every public election in your town and stress the qualifications that you don’t have.

Get all of your friends to go into burger king, order water and take as many seats as possible for as long as possible.

Recommend that Henry Miller be required reading in all high schools.

Laugh a lot more.

If you have something stupid to say, make sure that it gets said loud.

Celebrate every holiday from all countries and cultures.

We spend our lives…thinking that the freedom to choose between items or rulers is a choice, spending our time reduced to nothing….they make us believe that this system is natural or the best for us all…that we have to live like this cause there are no alternatives, that we have to be satisfied with survival..that we cannot change the world we live in….we have all been reduced to numbers but if we work hard enough we can become objects….and while the rich are building summer houses they are also building ghettos for the rest of us.

Making sure that we enjoy our pre-packaged guided outbursts into Disneyland or world cup soccer.

We have to consume, we have to make the economy flow. So in order for us to do that there has to be, apart from the basic necessities, desires to be nourished, needs to be invented. But the latest inventions of the capital reign and companies latest advertisement campaigns creates a desire that capitalism might not be able to satisfy. The perpetual question is: will it expand or will it crack?

The face that you see staring at you from the mirror every morning is not really you. Everything about that person that you look at has been designed by someone, something, and responds  to things outside of your immediate control…The fact that we all have our OWN names, numbers, addresses and personalities is exactly what excludes us from being individuals…People become roles that they are then forced to play out by the circumstances that they are woven into and by their personal understanding of their self as being one with this image; an image which assumes the mantle of identity…The general state of confusion, frustration and alienation that most people live in is both the direct product of and the very cause of the contradictions between ‘the self’ as it is and ‘the self’ as we would like it to be.

What you have right now is a dull reflection of that process, nothing more than the waste products of someone else’s experience…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…

Radio, 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, what movies to see, where to eat, who is funny, and what colors will be ‘IN’ for the next fashion season…

But even those acknowledged 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 fool 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?

…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 8 hours a day producing commodities, and becoming commodities and buying commodities…

Do you remember when it was quiet down here? Do you remember when it was quiet anywhere??? Before the industrialization, before the factories, before the planes and 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…

…Life is lived on the basis of time consumed. The standardization of time in the 19^th century was well in tune with the industrialization’s maximum usage of labor power, the need to increase the 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 ground for future slaves…

Alienation is for everyone now, because it is now more than it ever was. It is total. Some won’t recognize 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 thought in hopes of empowering their life. Will it? Only so much as you can transcend it – only in its negation.

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