steevio wrote:
its not really a cynical outlook, i'm sure theres some truth in it.
i've believed it most of my life, but if you look at how the laws were introduced in britain - new drug on the block - ban it quickly. it's almost like no intelligence was applied during the decisions.
its like the criminal justice act which banned 'music which is partly or wholey composed of a succession of repetitive beats' it was the first time an actual genre of music (our music !!) was descriminated against in the UK in recent centuries. how much intelligence was used in thinking that one up?
all it did was made people more determined to rave. the day the law came in, we did an illegal warehouse party in newcastle called Repetitive Beats, and it was one of the biggest attended parties ever in that city.
conspiracy theories intrigue me, and there has to be elements in government who think like that, but i dont think any of them really know what they're doing.
the drug laws in britain have done absolutely nothing to stamp out drug use, and the tabloid newspapers condemnation of drug use and their horror stories have only acted to intrigue and prompt the young to experiment.
we have gone off on a tangent mate.
For sure there are elements in government that think like that (who else is gonna use that much energy to get there? heheh), but in many ways they're acting out of love, so I have some sympathy. But they definitely don't know what they're doing regarding some of the more important things though.
it's depressing at times, but I think there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
I think one of the promising things is the way people have adapted after the first major revolution that Leary and friends helped to create. Those guys had good intentions, but getting everybody to drop out was never gonna work, but the way I see it now, is that some of the people who have those kind of counter cultural views are starting to 'drop in', which is a million times more subversive. There are many people I know who have those kind of views who, on the surface of things are highly successful members of someone elses idea of society, which is way more dangerous to those in power than people sat on the grass refusing to go to work.
Good call on the repetetive beats night though! Had a good old chuckle about that.
Tangent maybe, but in many ways this is at the core of what we're doing. Providing an open platform for people to do their thing, to help us do ours, without saying this is how it should be or this is how it shouldn't be, and by doing so, creating some dialogue that might help things to move forward, even if it's just from 1 person going home after having a great night with some likeminded people. And chemicals are some of the tools that are available, to both us music geeks and non music geeks, and whether they are are H20 or N20.
