Emotional consumerism
elfh / CyberPunks Unity
Emotional consumerism
Overcoming the wall of alienation,
constructed by the stagnant minds
and misunderstood by community,
this year the speccy demoscene
was invaded by drones, philosophical deliberation within denial
of selfexistence in this continuum
and an endless search of incomprehensible in depth of deferlant
subconciousness. For some reason, I thought it could happen in
the frontier of a new millennium, but
that year we got nothing except a
technical breakthrough, that is
considered to be important too.
And as usual, human mind was found
to be inexperienced to that range
of a new information. No, I'm not
surprised with such a low places
of why?, Evenless, the source and
fuckyouscene got at the latest parties - this is not a candy
for the masses and all this system of
charts and ranks seems to be borrowed somewhat from pop culture,
idolising Michael Jackson and Britney spears. But total absence
of reaction speaks for itself. The
one thing makes me happy in this
kindergarten - fairly deserved
first place of a demo, revealing
us inner life (or rather the lack
of it) and a sad fate of a man,
everyone can compare yourself
with. And then raise a question:
how deep is my cultural wealth?
What can I do for the sake of spiritual evolution? I'm still
surprised by the appearance of works, doesn't carrying nor
deepness, but at last an attempts of emotional
or thoughtful exploration. Seems
like there is none. I can remember
unspeakable joy, I got within my
first discoveries in this world
and I want to get such an experiences now. That is what
charming nature of drones and noise gives us. Still not
mastered by the mankind, the knowledge about alpha, beta
and gamma states of human brain
was used centuries ago at an intuitive basis. And all this
unspeakable and unexplored beauty lies beneath - just stay and
try to find out what it hides. Take this state
of still contemplation like it is,
something almost forgotten, but
calling, alluring with the answers
for the questions, humanity is
still unable to solve. And of course, this stands in
contradiction to the cornerstone principles of
consumerism-only products, corresponding to the norms and
standards of our putrefying society, could be absorbed.
But back to the parties, points
and places. The tendency of appearing the works, beyond standard
criteria has formed almost this
year. As Unbeliever said at the
last CAFe 'you have your own
scene, I don't understand it '.
Yes, the scene is changing, replenishing, trying to survive.
Because the old state has proven its dull languor and promises
us very sad future. Competitive aspect in
its old meaning lost long time
ago. And this freedom of creativity gives us possibilities to
explore, share our discoveries
with the world and transfer feelings as some kind of
metainformation, unable to be stored at any constructed medium,
but eager to be embodied in any available form.
And if someone still needs prize
places, then there is a necessity
in a new rules for the democompo.
Major sport industry solves this
problem easy - various kinds of
competitions give participant ability to show his potential.
But demoscene is not about sport and even 512bytes intro as a
nomination can feature eternity inside. There could be a need
for much narrow bounds to limit freedom of ideas and
aspiration. Or, that is much more preferred, purely creative
view at organisation, illustrated, for example, by the last
Altparty: http://www.altparty.org/.
But we are still here, tending
settled traditions - famous events
would be carried out, the voting
results would be out of any interest, and winners would stay sad
at the prize giving ceremony. And
I'm nurturing the dream about appearing of new meetings, where
adhering the norms wouldn't be counted as a good behaviour, and
sitting within a fire, burned upon the votesheets we would set
up ritual dances, surrounded by the sounds of AY chip,
outpouring avalanche of low frequency pulsations and crystals
of infinite noise.
elfh 02.01.04
