hi dan,
rather irregularly i give a look to your new webpage awaiting any news of the forthcoming printversion of pe. well......and there are some points appearing in your statements that bug me more every time i'm giving a look to your page.
i'm aware that i'm not the only one giving you the shits and maybe it's repeated too often already for you to care but anyway....here goes my random rant:
i realized similar points already in some random coloums in mrnr over the past half a year and i see them repeatedly in your words. the crisis and the good old moneytalk. being economical conscious about your financial situation and so on. bad times......blablabla..........
rather irregularly i give a look to your new webpage awaiting any news of the forthcoming printversion of pe. well......and there are some points appearing in your statements that bug me more every time i'm giving a look to your page.
i'm aware that i'm not the only one giving you the shits and maybe it's repeated too often already for you to care but anyway....here goes my random rant:
i realized similar points already in some random coloums in mrnr over the past half a year and i see them repeatedly in your words. the crisis and the good old moneytalk. being economical conscious about your financial situation and so on. bad times......blablabla..........
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aren't we supposed to offer some truely different approaches? isn't there a way running things collectively without even breaking even just for the sake of your own pleasure and will to change the system? must it all be about money?
i myself have a dayjob as well and all other activities i do (and those are not too less) i pay off with it not even thinking about some economical reward as this means nothing to me. sure i'm aware that over there it works a bit different on some levels concerning economical survival but anyway, don't tell me you just couldn't even try. having to care about cildren and family or not. and well, for the sake of your family rather stop all those halfheartedly approaches than clinging to them just for pure nostalgica. it dosen't make sense to me..............
did i ever ask any given (crust)band stopping in town to play a gig on their tour to share some of the doormoney for my countless hours of freetime and energy spent to keep an infrastructure going (not only of course but as well) for them to play? did that even ever cross my mind? so why does a "radical" label or distro or mag think it is so much different than any venue? don't we all have bills to pay and making ends meet?
do we really need to justify this monetary system just to keep pure nostaglica going? and please don't tell me that there are also ecological reasons considering printversions of fanzines being scaled down. it is more of a farce than to be taken seriously.........first, we all need in this particular case to afford some webconnection (and when we have it, we just don't us it for the pe page) in case we even have a computer. second, don't tell me the waist of resources producing computers and above all newer and faster ones (for the old one to be replaced and thrown away) every single day has any impact on saving the planet. third, what about landfills and recycling of computers? not too much......and fourth, did you ever consider the constant need of energy running all this countless machines? how is it produced? nuclear power plants? coal? anyway, in any case building those new plants to cover our need for more energy alone is on no account ecofriendly................ever heard about greenwashing? and well, for five: i'm not in for cramps in my eyes, seriously.
so, if we ever want to make punk a threat again we have to quit this kind of monetary thinking as fast as possible. because as long as we have to lose something as long there will never be a real threat. you know that.......
aren't we in to be visionaries? to try different approaches? to not only go the convenient way (i avoid using easy as i believe struggling to be paid is not that easy either)............aren't we in to work together? aren't we in to make some changes?
so, after all what i wanted to say is: there are only two ways dealing with this situation (and struggling for money proofes me right): quitting - or scaling down to go new ways..........anything else is just working for the system................
as long as i don't see any of those major changes there is no relevance of pe (and other related institutions) for me anymore!
eventually, this rant is not against you in person. i just figure more and more contradictions and cought ups and wanted at least to let you know about my points (even if only in short). i'm sensible enough realizing that not everything is as easy in reality as it is in theory. but well.........at least we could try!
thanks for your attention
sti
aren't we supposed to offer some truely different approaches? isn't there a way running things collectively without even breaking even just for the sake of your own pleasure and will to change the system? must it all be about money?
i myself have a dayjob as well and all other activities i do (and those are not too less) i pay off with it not even thinking about some economical reward as this means nothing to me. sure i'm aware that over there it works a bit different on some levels concerning economical survival but anyway, don't tell me you just couldn't even try. having to care about cildren and family or not. and well, for the sake of your family rather stop all those halfheartedly approaches than clinging to them just for pure nostalgica. it dosen't make sense to me..............
did i ever ask any given (crust)band stopping in town to play a gig on their tour to share some of the doormoney for my countless hours of freetime and energy spent to keep an infrastructure going (not only of course but as well) for them to play? did that even ever cross my mind? so why does a "radical" label or distro or mag think it is so much different than any venue? don't we all have bills to pay and making ends meet?
do we really need to justify this monetary system just to keep pure nostaglica going? and please don't tell me that there are also ecological reasons considering printversions of fanzines being scaled down. it is more of a farce than to be taken seriously.........first, we all need in this particular case to afford some webconnection (and when we have it, we just don't us it for the pe page) in case we even have a computer. second, don't tell me the waist of resources producing computers and above all newer and faster ones (for the old one to be replaced and thrown away) every single day has any impact on saving the planet. third, what about landfills and recycling of computers? not too much......and fourth, did you ever consider the constant need of energy running all this countless machines? how is it produced? nuclear power plants? coal? anyway, in any case building those new plants to cover our need for more energy alone is on no account ecofriendly................ever heard about greenwashing? and well, for five: i'm not in for cramps in my eyes, seriously.
so, if we ever want to make punk a threat again we have to quit this kind of monetary thinking as fast as possible. because as long as we have to lose something as long there will never be a real threat. you know that.......
aren't we in to be visionaries? to try different approaches? to not only go the convenient way (i avoid using easy as i believe struggling to be paid is not that easy either)............aren't we in to work together? aren't we in to make some changes?
so, after all what i wanted to say is: there are only two ways dealing with this situation (and struggling for money proofes me right): quitting - or scaling down to go new ways..........anything else is just working for the system................
as long as i don't see any of those major changes there is no relevance of pe (and other related institutions) for me anymore!
eventually, this rant is not against you in person. i just figure more and more contradictions and cought ups and wanted at least to let you know about my points (even if only in short). i'm sensible enough realizing that not everything is as easy in reality as it is in theory. but well.........at least we could try!
thanks for your attention
sti
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