Popel Vooje
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Edited Feb 15, 2012, 19:31
Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 15, 2012, 19:28
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anthonyqkiernan wrote:
Christ, we must have been bored that day.
Albeit probably not as bored as as I was when I wrote that fake anti-Spiritualized diatribe that inadvertantly started of the "Negative reviews" thread. Temporary unemployment, I remember ye well...
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Robot Emperor
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 15, 2012, 20:44
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stray wrote: we just need to focus energies on this problem of isolationism, spend some time trying to widen the general conciousness. Yep, I'm sounding like a hippy here, which is very unlike me. Maybe Spivaks ideas of Strategic Essentialism can grow from one single issue group into another, and then another. so as to create some large assemblage that generates widespread change rather than just another easily identifiable (and therefore self-isolating) 'movement'.
Religion then... Oh dear.
Or we can pretend that the twentieth century never happened and give culture another shot. I was always struck by Terry Eagletons critique of the belief that being cultured made you a better person "When the Allied troops moved into the concentration camps ... to arrest commandants who had whiled away their leisure hours with a volume of Goethe, it appeared that someone had some explaining to do." The problem being that the arbiters of culture in the early twentieth century got vertigo in the face of a new mass literate society and escaped into exclusivety and a hatred of the imagined masses. Perhaps if we could cut out the elitism in culture and tried inclusivity… A rehabilitation for sentimentality would be a start.
Russia is currently providing us with a similar crisis for the counter culture. Vladislav Surkov, Putins Rasputin, has been a long haired Floyd loving poetry machine before his current incarnation as the puppet master for a frankly terrifying regime. He has even managed to turn Postmodernism into a tool of totalitarianism - what passes for the state being endlessly ironic and never saying anything directly whilst acting like gangsters.
Ideas often take on a life of their own and end up in the most unexpected places being used in the most unexpected ways. Still think religion is the best shot.
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riverman
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 15, 2012, 23:15
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Bought whore?
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FifePsy
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 15, 2012, 23:32
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I'm probably the opposite at the moment Carlos. CD1 sounding very good but first play of CD2 didn't do much at all. Early days though and haven't really delved into the lyrics yet. Like many others don't like the gun!
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Moth
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 16, 2012, 09:02
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"Board-whore" is what I heard it as (but as it's my least fave song, I've only heard it a cuppla times) & it sort of makes sense to me....
love
Moth
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PMM
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 17, 2012, 13:11
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Just giving it my first listen now.
Doesn't take itself entirely seriously, does it? :)
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Vybik Jon
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 17, 2012, 17:39
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PMM wrote: Doesn't take itself entirely seriously, does it? :)
Others do.
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Squid Tempest
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 17, 2012, 18:29
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I think that is part of why I'm enjoying it more than I initially thought I was going to. It's been making me grin.
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IanB
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Edited Feb 17, 2012, 18:48
Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 17, 2012, 18:45
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Squid Tempest wrote: I think that is part of why I'm enjoying it more than I initially thought I was going to. It's been making me grin.
Viewed from that side of the looking glass it's two quid cheaper than the Citizen Smith box set but 330 minutes shorter. You pays yer money ...
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Myers
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Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 17, 2012, 19:05
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It's no Peggy Suicide, is it?
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