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<BODY> <b>Rave Culture</b> <a href="rave-culture-zippies.html">Rave culture</a><p> <a href="http://www.parallel-youniversity.com"><div align="center"><h2>CLICK HERE TO ENTER MAIN SITE</h2></div><br><br> <div align="center"><img src="flowerpower_md_wht.gif" width="93" height="120" border="0" alt="rave culture"></div></a> <br><br><br><br><pre> </pre> <font color="#FF00FF"><i>U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U <b>UP </b>P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P<br> </i></font><font color="#800080"><b>The</font> <font face="Bajoran" size=5 color="#FF00FF">UP</font>GRADEmag <font color="#FF0000"><i>(or just the "UP")</i> </font><font color="#800080">is a global edutainment round-up, ‘broadcast’ weekly to </font><font color="#008000">=[10,429]=</font><font color="#FFFF00"> </font><font color="#0000FF">Alternative// Activist// Zippy// Trance// New Age </font><font color="#800080">folks who’ve been recommended to the </font><u>Parallel YOUniversity</u><font color="#FF99CC">//<u>Megatripolis Dance Dept</u></font> as <font color="#008000"><i>"showing signs of life".</font>  </i><font color="#800080">Since many recipients choose to forward it to their own lists, we estimate</font> <font color="#008000">28,000+</font><font color="#FFFF00"> </font><font color="#800080">recipients. Further,</font><font color="#FFFF00"> </font><font color="#800080">because</font><font color="#FFFF00"> </font><font color="#800080">of its less 'specialist' content</font><font color="#FF0000">, it's increasingly being posted on a variety of sites worldwide,</font><font color="#800080"> making a total weekly ‘readership’ of  </font><font color="#339966"><u>275,000+<br> </u></b></font><font color="#FF00FF"><i>U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U <b>UP </b>P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P  <br> <br> </font><font color="#3366FF"><b>to subscribe, write </i></font><font color="#FF00FF">“I wanna get UP!”</font><font color="#3366FF"><i> </font><font color="#008080">to </font><font color="#0000FF"><u>people@parallel-youniversity.com<br> <br> <br>  <div align="center"> <font face="Verdana" size=7 color="#993366">PERPETUAL WAR? <br> </font><font face="Verdana" size=4><u>YEAR ONE, END OF 6</font><font face="Verdana"><sup>TH</sup></font><font face="Verdana" size=4> MONTH<br> <br> </u></font><font face="Verdana" size=5 color="#FF00FF">lissen i’m as sick of this war shit as u!<br> - but i’m not making it up!  </font><font face="Verdana" size=5 color="#FF0000">honest!<br> </font><font face="Verdana" size=6 color="#008000">________________________<br> </font><font size=4 color="#008000"><u>IT’S TIME TO PAUSE AND SEE WHERE WE’VE BEEN GOING<br> </font><font size=6 color="#008000">AND TRY TO </font><font size=6 color="#993366">ANSWER</font><font size=6 color="#008000"> 2 QUESTIONS</u>:<br> <br> </font><font size=5 color="#FF0000">1.</font><font size=4> <x-tab>     </x-tab></font><font size=4 color="#993366">HALFWAY INTO ITS FIRST YEAR,<br> WHAT’S BEEN THE GAIN OF THE ‘WAR’ APPROACH?<br> <br> </font><font size=5 color="#FF0000">2.</font><font size=4> <x-tab>     </x-tab></font><font size=4 color="#993366">SHOULD THE UP NOW RETURN TO ITS MISSION <br> OF HIGHLIGHTING, CONNECTING AND ACCELERATING <br> THE</font><font size=4> </font><font size=4 color="#FF00FF">ALTERNATIVE FUTURE</font><font size=4> </font><font size=4 color="#993366">WITHIN</font><font size=4> </font><font size=4 color="#FF0000">WESTERN WAR CULTURE</font><font size=4 color="#993366">?!<br> <br> <br> </font></div> <font size=6 color="#FF00FF">1.<x-tab>      </x-tab>THE GAIN OF THE ‘</font><font size=6 color="#FF0000">WAR’</font><font size=6 color="#FF00FF"> APPROACH?<br> </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF">that truly terrible pause after the </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000">Twin Terrors</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF"> was six months ago, on the opposite side of our planet’s revolution of the sun.  what were we thinking then?<br> to remind ourselves, i’ve extracted a typical statement from an article in </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000">september 25</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF">’s </font><font face="Bajoran" size=5 color="#FF00FF">UP</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF"> called</font><font size=4 color="#FF0000"> ‘</b></font><font size=4 color="#000080">COME ON OVER, TERRORISTS!  </font><font size=4 color="#FF00FF">FRASER TAKES ON THE REDNECK CHAMP!!’<br> <br> </font><font color="#000080"><b>>>If their cause is just and honorable, why do they have to resort to cowardly attacks on innocent people who have never opposed their way of life or harmed them in any way?  <br> </font><font color="#FF99CC">>your government has been looting the planet for the last 30 years to maintain your lifestyle, bob.  the poor countries of the world send i think it's $35 million EVERY DAY to the banks in your (and my) country. <br> <br> and if,</font><font color="#FF00FF"> </font><font color="#FF0000">EVEN AFTER THIS TERRIBLE WAKE-UP CALL</font><font color="#FF00FF">, </font><font color="#FF99CC">you still refuse to look for a</font><font color="#FF00FF"> </font><font color="#FF0000">REASON</font><font color="#FF00FF">, </font><font color="#FF99CC">and u support your government in its planned attack that will kill hundreds (thousands?) of innocent people for some "</font><font color="#FF0000">religious belief</font><font color="#FF99CC"> ' (i.e. that america rules the world and americans are worth more than anybody else except maybe the brits or something) then YOU, as an american citizen, will be GUILTY.  period.  unless you've spent a large part of every day of the rest of your life OPPOSING your governing elite's policies.<br> <br> </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF">well, we all know wha’appen.  <i>thousands</i> of innocents were killed, 6,666 as it happens, near enuff HALF wot were killed in the </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000">twin terrors</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF">.  wonder why i underestimated like that!  (who said </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000"><i>“not like you, frase!”</i></font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF">?)  american propaganda about them “wunnerful new smart bomms’ i imagine.<br> <br> anyway, if you remember, the argument during that terrible echoing lull was between <br> “</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000">PUNISH! XTERMINATE! BOMM! THE WORLD JUST CHANGED!</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF">” and <br> </font><font face="Verdana">“THE WORLD’S BEEN LIKE THIS A LONG TIME, BRO, THAT’S WHAT CAUSED IT, AND MORE PUNISHMENT ON ITS OWN WILL CREATE MORE TERRORISM.”<br> <br> </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF">the UP’s very first headline on the evening of the </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000">twin terrors</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF"> was </font><font face="Verdana">“GETTING TUFF ON TERRORISM AND TUFF ON THE CAUSES OF TERRORISM”<br> <br> </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF">so which side has proved right?  unfortunately we didn’t get to try OUR way so we can only watch the result of the other.  has it nipped terrorism in the bud?  calmed the fear and distrust?  do <i>you</i> feel the world’s a safer place <i>now</i> than before the bomming?  not in the short term while they “re-organise” but for the Future?<br> <br> well, “</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000">night letters</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF">” being reportedly handed out in afghanistan promise $20,000 for ANY dead American, peace worker, journalist or <i>anything</i>.  </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000">david pearl</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF"> had his throat cut live/dead on video and it sells like hot cakes across arabia.  sharon, ‘brain-fevered” by the ‘war’ approach, is going nuts.  pakistan’s looking shaky.  iraq is just a moment awa-a-ay.  <br> <br> but here’s the infinite logic loop we find our leaders stuck in: they DON’T see that things are going from bad to worse because how can you see that all your PUNISHMENT has only DEEPENED an already existing fear’nloathing situation </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000"><i><u>if you didn’t see or admit that situation in the first place</u></i></font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF">?  <br> <br> so what happens now that your early easy victories keep meeting stronger resistance than you reckoned on?  </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000"><i>you up the ante! </i></font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF">you PUNISH <i>harder!</i>  (after, of course, ensuring that the afghan turkey shoot becomes </b></font><font face="Verdana"><i>“the least reported war in history”</i></font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF"><b>)  call it sharon rage, or bush tantrum, </font><font face="Verdana"><i>everything confirms a paranoid in his paranoia.</i></font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF">  <br> <br> we who represent </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000">WESTERN WAR CULTURE</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF">‘s</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000"> ALTERNATIVE FUTURE</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF"> must work at changing the <i>other</i> people who grant these sociopaths their legitimacy (as hitler, mussolini etc).  and this is <i>inevitably</i> starting to happen, though difficult to measure as it’s </font><font face="Verdana">questions</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF"> that are starting to form at the back of peoples’ minds rather than </font><font face="Verdana">answers</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF"> <i>(as yet :)<br> <br> </i></font><font size=6 color="#FF00FF">2.  LOSS OF THE ALTERNATIVE FUTURE?<br> </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF">all we are is an ”alternative future” within the WESTERN WAR CULTURE.  a seed, a megatripolis culture capable of growing within an </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000">Imperialist Terrorist Globalopolis</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF">, and  theoretically capable of becoming dominant.  <br>    and it’s happening.  it’s been growing since rave culture sparked itself up to subscribe to the last decade’s </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000">Millennial Fever Party</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF">.  <br>    but this new perpetual war (spot the subconc contradiction?), like the Vietnam War (each the sudden ‘surfacing’ of an already on-going brutal struggle) is the exact equivalent of that previous Alternative Future wave, the hippy movement.  war, as i’ve said many times, is the factor that can coalesce the different sub-cultural strands into a single Movement.  <br>    but when i say that our culture must come to dominate the present  dinosaur culture, it cannot be by force of arms but by force of argument and lifestyle.  it achieves dominance by persuading and inspiring more and more of the  population, the leaders last, that the war way will never work, can’t work, and never actually worked in the past  except by reptilian savagery abroad while fooling the home audience that we’re whiter than white.  can’t possibly persuade them that the rest of the world sees us as the good guys now, can we?!<br>    so what is the situation in terms of how the western masses support the present war way?  the fact is that, during the </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000">vietnam war</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF"> when i first became a </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000">Hippy</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF">, a majority of all european and ‘western’ populations bought their governments’ line that we the good guys were reluctantly killing thousands for the best possible reasons.  but today?  today i doubt that there’s a majority in any country outside america for an attack on iraq or for a continuation of the present perrpetual war way.  </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000">THAT’S A GIGANTIC CHANGE!</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF00FF"> <br>    it means that the dinosaur faction have placed themselves far out on the very end of the longest possible (evolutionary?) branch, their support now reduced to 75% of an american public whose information flow they still control (with ideas eating it away unseen and unseeable).  and, to be perfectly honest, i seriously doubt the accuracy and purity of even opinion polls these days!  <br>    would you put anything past these people?!<br>    SO WE ARE THE ALTERNATIVE FUTURE, THE WAR CULTURE’S AND THE WHOLE PLANET’S ONLY HOPE.  LET’S START BEING MORE PRO-FUTURE, INSTEAD OF ANTI-PAST :)<br> </font><font face="Bajoran" size=5 color="#FF00FF">UP -</b></font><font size=4 color="#000080"><i> </i></font><font color="#000080"><b>In many traditions and cultures, stars are thought to be the souls of either unborn souls, or those who have passed away<br> <br> <br> </font><font face="Verdana" color="#00CCFF">"The next revolution - World War 3 - will be waged inside your head. It will be, as</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000"> </font><font face="Verdana" color="#99CC00">Marshal McLuhan</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000"> </font><font face="Verdana" color="#00CCFF">predicted, a guerrilla information war fought not in the sky or on the streets, not in the forests or around international fishing boundaries on the high seas, but in newspapers and magazines, on the radio, on TV and in cyberspace.  It will be a dirty, no-holds-barred propaganda war of competing worldviews and alternative visions of the future." </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000">- </font><font face="Verdana">Nicola Newshound</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FF0000">.<br> </font><font color="#000080">.</font><font face="Bajoran" size=5 color="#FF00FF">UP -</b></font><font color="#000080"><i> </i><b>In some cultures a shooting star foretells a birth, and is said to be the soul racing to animate the newborn baby.<br> <br> <br> <a href="http://www.tribal-fusion.biz/entertainment-jobs.html"><img src="promotion/entertainment-jobs.gif" border="0" alt="entertainment jobs"></a> </BODY>