vastnessofbeing
I found out about this through The Wire magazine. It sounded interesting, and when I put it on, it sounds like music with a great beat but a willfulness to not sound like anything else. Cheers!
Favorite track: Strawman - Bullshit Detector.
"Concerning the civil war which ripped the Athenian civil society apart in 427 BCE, Thucydides notes: To fit in with the change of events, words, too, had to change their usual meanings. What used to be described as a thoughtless act of aggression was now regarded as the courage one would expect to find in a party member; to think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just an attempt to disguise one's unmanly character; Thus the ability to understand a question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action. Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of a real man, and to plot against an enemy behind his back was perfectly legitimate self-defence. Anyone who held violent opinions could always be trusted, and anyone who objected to them became a suspect. To plot successfully was a sign of intelligence, but it was still cleverer to see that a plot was hatching. If one attempted to provide against having to do either, one was disrupting the unity of the party and acting out of fear of the opposition. In short, it was equally praiseworthy to get one's blow in first against someone who was going to do wrong, and to denounce someone who had no intention of doing any wrong at all. Family relations were a weaker tie than party membership, since party members were more ready to go to any extreme for any reason whatever. These parties were not formed to enjoy the benefits of the established laws, but to acquire power by overthrowing the existing regime; and the members of these parties felt confidence in each other not because of any fellowship in a religious communion, but because they were partners in crime. If an opponent made a reasonable speech, the party in power, so far from giving it a generous reception, took every precaution to see that it had no practical effect.
Revenge was more important than self-preservation. And if pacts of mutual security were made, they were entered into by the two parties only in order to meet some temporary difficulty, and remained in force only so long as there was no other weapon available. When the chance came, the one who first seized it boldly, catching his enemy off his guard, enjoyed a revenge that was all the sweeter from having been taken, not openly, but because of a breach of faith. It was safer that way, it was considered, and at the same time a victory won by treachery gave one a title for superior intelligence. And indeed most people are more ready to call villainy cleverness than simple-mindedness honesty. They are proud of the first quality and ashamed of the second."
An old punk from Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk writes: “In late 1980’s we were persecuted by communist party apparatchiks, in 1990’s – by business gangsters, in 2000’s – by Ukrainian nationalists, now – by state Security Service. But the paradox is that – always by the same persons”
credits
released January 8, 2023
Compilation of electro-psychotix from Romania, Russia, Belgium, Serbia
Mastered by Rareș Andrei Constantinescu
Artwork: Tikhon Kubov
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