[Feel free to ignore] unlimited navkat rave/music thread

[The Good Reverend Roger]

They're all "Our partying is changing the world!"

I can't stand it.

Those Crusty people are doing it too. "Our dumpster diving and not bathing is changing the world!"

Well, it is.  They're making it smellier.

Which is a kind of change.

[Slurrealist]

Partying is changing the world is bullshit but...people keep experiencing something, both with and without drugs.
As far as I understood from reading books and post, and partly from personal experience, the "prophet syndrome" is a very common state when the higher circuits got activated. And dancing, especially to repetitive beats, had always been one of the most strongest, most reliable ways to change your consciousness.
And another thing about rave is chillout. If there would have been no raves, there would have been no downtempo, chill music, lounge music, and so on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQNX2_-hlFY

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

They're all "Our partying is changing the world!"

I can't stand it.

Those Crusty people are doing it too. "Our dumpster diving and not bathing is changing the world!"

Well, it is.  They're making it smellier.

Which is a kind of change.

True fact: these guys were club kids when they were young https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGkKnldZHpE

True fact #2: that is also exactly how it would go down if Roger and I ever hung out and dropped some e.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Partying is changing the world is bullshit but...people keep experiencing something, both with and without drugs.
As far as I understood from reading books and post, and partly from personal experience, the "prophet syndrome" is a very common state when the higher circuits got activated. And dancing, especially to repetitive beats, had always been one of the most strongest, most reliable ways to change your consciousness.
And another thing about rave is chillout. If there would have been no raves, there would have been no downtempo, chill music, lounge music, and so on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQNX2_-hlFY

Right now I'm experiencing something without the use of drugs. I am experiencing the fact that I need to take a shit.

Sure, dancing can be consciousness-changing and trance-inducing. So can a Catholic Mass. Are they revolutionary, though? Fuck no. People have been having dance parties since FOR FUCKING EVER. Ecstatic, sweaty, blissful, chemically-altered dance parties. The revolutionary ones have been few and far between, and in the history of the US have mostly involved things like white girls dancing with black boys.

[navkat]

If I was b. In the 1900s, I'd have been a flapper.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Why not be a flapper now?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Nothing should be stopping you. Unless youre younger than 12 you were born in the 1900s. plus youd beat the hipsters to it. Listen to jazz before it bacame an excuse for inability to make appealing music.

[East Coast Hustle]

That's a mythical "before", I'm assuming.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Shhh dont kill the idea with facts.


Though truth be told i would listen to duke ellington over some pompous berklee kid in a second

[President Television]

That's a mythical "before", I'm assuming.

Say what you will, Cab Calloway was a hep cat.

[Triple Zero]

I prefer if everyone finds their own vehicle...it doesn't have to be The Rave. I'd just like to share mine sometimes.

Feel free to share the things you love! I am just saying that it's a bit silly to claim that the rave itself is inherently part of some kind of revolution.

Um. She already nuanced and elaborated on that the first time you said it. Repeatedly asserting it is just building a straw man.

So it's not a revolution. As Navkat elaborated, it's more like a "timeless rebellion", kids have always been partying and probably will always continue to do so. So maybe it's not "changing" anything, if it's always been around in some sense or another.

But what I'm taking from it, is that it is important that it does exist, and happens. Because you need to exercise your freedoms in order to keep them. And this is a beautiful thing worth keeping.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I prefer if everyone finds their own vehicle...it doesn't have to be The Rave. I'd just like to share mine sometimes.

Feel free to share the things you love! I am just saying that it's a bit silly to claim that the rave itself is inherently part of some kind of revolution.

Um. She already nuanced and elaborated on that the first time you said it. Repeatedly asserting it is just building a straw man.

So it's not a revolution. As Navkat elaborated, it's more like a "timeless rebellion", kids have always been partying and probably will always continue to do so. So maybe it's not "changing" anything, if it's always been around in some sense or another.

But what I'm taking from it, is that it is important that it does exist, and happens. Because you need to exercise your freedoms in order to keep them. And this is a beautiful thing worth keeping.

Navkat and I communicated with each other just fine as far as I can tell. Unless I'm totally missing something.

[DECI4]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4w6r3nr9OM

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Is this your absolute last post for realz this time? Just curious.

[DECI4]

Is this your absolute last post for realz this time? Just curious.

I'm in the process of deleting all my posts. I will be replacing them with music, famous quotes, and a veritable cornucopia of pictures from Picasso's blue period.

Let go of your hate Billy. Believe it or not, I'll miss you the most.