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"Ever since... gosh, since we were probably maybe 7-8 years old, my school took me to somewhere called Anglesea. It’s an island in the north of Wales, and we stayed in a cottage and it was an art trip so the whole time we were just making art and there were lots of prehistoric sites, stone circles and prehistoric villages. And we just thought “Wouldn’t it be great to have some-where like this all the time?”. And then when we dropped out of university in 1969 it was to join a commune in London, The Exploding Galaxy, and everybody’s money was put into one box and everybody’s clothes went into another box, and all the walls were knocked down so that when you went to the toilet or had a bath everyone could see you, we took turns cooking...

So... that had a really profound effect on me, the basic idea was to break down habits, to sort of make you think about why you do everything. Why do you eat with a knife and a fork, why not chopstick? Why not fingers? Why not something totally new? You know, why is your head the same today as it was yesterday? Where is your imagination? What happens when you get clothes that aren’t for you? Clothes that are for the other gender? How’d you deal with that? You create new characters? Does it change how you deal with the world outside? So it was all about constantly analyzing the self in order to build yourself from your own ideas, to create your own story, your own narrative rather than any inherited life. Not what the family wanted, not what the society wanted, not what politicians wanted, not what money made or made not possible, but what was it that you wanted to become as a being and how to try and maximize that happening.

So that was right at the beginning, and those ideas have stayed with me in various forms and extended into more and more ideas ever since. And so we  always were in collaboration with other people, with groups rather than always doing solo things, because we’ve always felt – four brains, four imaginations, are more exciting than one. And what my mind can imagine I already know that, but what would be great would be to find out what other people imagined and see if that’s even more exciting. Or maybe the two together made something completely new. So it’s building this state of constant open-mindedness, always ready to change, always ready to adapt, always ready to see a different version of the story of what’s happening around you. And of course that’s very liberating but it also challenges the basic structures of power in most societies because they’re all based on reducing your options, reducing your choices, discouraging difference, dis- couraging you from doing things that are not what everybody else is doing. Everything Other is a threat, anything that challenges the status quo is seen as a threat and how is it usually dealt with? Intimidation by politicians, peer groups, by bullies, by the army..., but always intimidation. The threat is always violence, the threat of being put in prison or punished in some way.

So this idea of punishment is always in all societies and it just seems the most negative way to build a new society that’s based on positive creativity, the process of thinking, the learning of sharing, of giving, of generosity instead of self-ishness and bigotry and hypocrisy and prejudice, all those things that somehow seem to always go along with power structures."

um jovem Genesis P-Orridge, ainda sem imaginar o quanto iria provocar curto-circuito no controle.

A conversa original e inspiradora de onde esse trecho foi retirado pode ser lida na íntegra aqui(en/rus).