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
transcends 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 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
35Hz 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 to 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 initial realizations that each of us
was truly born.
We continue to pack our bodies into clubs, or
warehouses, or buildings you've abandoned 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
inhibitions, and free ourselves from the shackles
and restraints you've put on us for your own
peace of mind. We seek to re-write the
programming that you have tried to indoctrinate
us with since the moment 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 hole
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 open them.
Until the sun rises to burn our eyes by revealing
the distopian reality of a 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 existence. 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.
