Old horror and sci-fi movies. Poison dart frogs, tropical and saltwater fishkeeping. Modular synthesizers, multimedia production. Left-wing politics. Native American archaeology, beatniks, Qabalah and the occult, fetish culture. Wildlife conservation, Florida ecology, nature photography, low art, underground comics. Hiking, cycling, canoeing & scuba diving.
In dystopian society, the economic system centers on stability and is structured so that the government or the economic system is immune to change or disruption. Usually, the industries operate at maximum efficiency and capacity, and then the excess products or currency is absorbed in some way by the state. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, people are put on rations, and excess production is absorbed in the "war" that is always occurring with either Eurasia or Eastasia. In Brave New World, excess production is sucked by extreme consumerism, encouraged by the government. In the One State depicted in We, there is no currency or exchange whatsoever, either inside or outside the walls of the society, but everything is provided to the people.There is usually a group of people somewhere in the society who are not under the complete control of the state, and in whom the hero of the novel usually puts his or her hope, although he or she still fails to change anything. In Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell they are the proles, in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley they are the people on the reservation, and in We by Zamyatin they are the people outside the walls of the One State. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury they are the book people: past the river and outside the city.........Mussolini defined fascism as being a right-wing collectivistic ideology in opposition to socialism, liberalism, democracy and individualism. He wrote in The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism:Anti-individualistic, the fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal will of man as a historic entity.... The fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.... Fascism is therefore opposed to that form of democracy which equates a nation to the majority, lowering it to the level of the largest number.... We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the 'right', a Fascist century. If the nineteenth century was the century of the individual (liberalism implies individualism) we are free to believe that this is the 'collective' century, and therefore the century of the State........................................
Old school metal, electronic and industrial...Iron Maiden, Kraftwerk, Frontline Assembly, Napalm Death, Kreator, The Prodigy, Atari Teenage Riot, KMFDM, PIG, Richard Kirk, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Motorhead, Ministry, NIN, Type O Negative, Current 93, Lee Perry, dub reggae, Cabaret Voltaire etc., ad nauseum
The same social soil that brought forward the right-wing terrorist McVeigh holds the seeds of a very different development. If the media systematically blocks socialist and left-wing ideas from reaching the general population, it is because its nervousness is well-founded. If masses of people were aware of the alternative represented by genuine socialism—with its critique of inequality, class exploitation and the waste of human and material resources in a system geared to enriching a privileged few—a socialist perspective would find an enormous response. In fact, the conditions for a movement to the left by a great number of people are rapidly maturing.
W. Burroughs A. Crowley A. Artaud
Wade Davis, anthropologist Edward Abbey, writer.