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I. THE DEATH OF RAVE

1. A MOVEMENT DIES WHEN WE BECOME COMPLACENT, WHEN OUR IMAGINATIONS FAIL, AND WE FORGET OUR HISTORY. WE FALL INTO THESE TRAPS WHEN WE FAIL TO UNDERSTAND WHY IT IS THAT WE CREATE AT ALL. THE FAILURE OF THE RAVE MOVEMENT TO ORGANIZE, TO PUSH OUTWARD AND TO DEFEND ITSELF FROM PARASITES WOULD CAUSE IT TO FALTER PREMATURELY. IT'S TROPES WOULD BE REGURGITATED WITHOUT A FUNDAMENTAL UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR EXISTENCE. SO IT WAS OUR LEADERS LEFT US BEHIND. STUCK WITHIN A CYCLE OF EXPLOITATION, RAVE LOST ITS HISTORY, AND SUCH HAS LOST ITS ABILITY TO CHANGE THE WORLD.

2. AN ANALYSIS OF EVERY CULTURAL MOVEMENT IN MODERN HISTORY HAS SHOWN THE IMPORTANCE OF SEVERAL FACTORS THAT ALLOW SAID MOVEMENT TO FLOURISH. A DISTINCT AESTHETIC BOTH VISUAL AND AUDITORY, A UNIFYING IDEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION, AND AN ORIGINAL GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS, THE VANGUARDS OF THE MOVEMENT FROM WHICH ALL OTHERS STEM. THE SENSE OF REBELLION AGAINST CULTURAL NORMS HAS OFTEN BROUGHT ABOUT SUCH MOVEMENTS, AGAINST INJUSTICES, STRUCTURES OF POWER OR OTHERWISE. MOVEMENTS WHICH FAIL IN ANY OF THESE CRITERIA MORE OFTEN THAN NOT WILL EXPERIENCE A STEADY SENSE OF STAGNATION AFTER AN INITIAL BURST, AND LIKE A FAILING HEART, WOULD OCCASIONALLY SEEM TO RETURN TO LIFE, BUT ULTIMATELY BE UNABLE TO START AGAIN. ONLY A DRASTIC SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM IS ABLE TO FULLY REINVIGORATE A DYING MOVEMENT, OR INSPIRE OTHERS TO BUILD FROM IT'S FOUNDATION AND CREATE SOMETHING TO ACCOMPLISH THE GOALS OF THOSE WHO LEFT THEM BEHIND.

II. WHY RAVE IS NEEDED.

1. IT IS AT ITS CORE ESSENCE, REBELLION. IT WAS BIRTHED OF THE COLLECTIVE DESIRE TO ESCAPE THE TRIBULATIONS OF A SOCIETY THAT HAD REJECTED A GROUP OF OUTSIDERS, WHO IN TURN REJECTED SOCIETY. INNOVATORS, GENIUSES, UNITY.

2. THE NET HAS CREATED A WHOLE GENERATION OF INDIVIDUALS CONNECTED IN WAYS NEVER SEEN IN HUMAN HISTORY, CULTURAL BOUNDARIES NO LONGER EXIST AS A RESULT OF GEOGRAPHY, HUMAN BEINGS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD MAY FIND MORE IN COMMON WITH A STRANGER ONLINE THAN THEIR OWN NEIGHBORS. RAVE WAS ABOUT THIS CONNECTION, WHERE YOUR RACE, CREED, OR ANY ASPECT OF YOUR IDENTITY DID NOT MATTER. YET DESPITE THESE INNOVATIONS, IT IS MORE DIVIDED THAN EVER. A RETURN TO OUR CULTURAL BASELINE IS NEEDED TO FOSTER A NEW COMMUNITY OF INDIVIDUALS WILLING TO TEAR DOWN THE NORMS OF A CO-OPTED SCENE.

3. A REACTIONARY MOVEMENT OF THE OLD SYSTEMS OF POWER IS GROWING, AND LIKE THOSE BEFORE THEM, WILL DO ANYTHING THEY CAN TO PREVENT THE CHANGE THAT IS COMING. THEY WILL SEEK TO CO-OPT IT. WILL THE DEATH PANGS OF OUR FOSSILIZED SYSTEM BE OUR DOOM? III. NULLSECT WE ARE NULLSECT, THOSE WHO SEEK TO BRING ABOUT THE CHANGE REQUIRED TO PUSH OUR MOVEMENT FORWARD, SEPARATED GEOGRAPHICALLY, BUT UNITED BY THE NET. WE ARE MUSICIANS, VISUAL ARTISTS, WRITERS AND THINKERS WHO THROUGH A COMMON CAUSE LOOK TO CREATE A GENRE THAT IS A UNIQUE EVOLUTION OF RAVE. WE AIM TO DO THIS THROUGH THE CREATION OF MUSIC THAT IS INDEPENDENT OF THE "EDM" OF TODAY, A VISUAL AESTHETIC THAT EVOKES THE THEMES OF THE THINKERS THAT INSPIRED US MANY YEARS AGO, AND THE CULTIVATION OF A COUNTER CULTURE BUILT ON THE DISILLUSIONMENT OF THOSE WHO SEE THE WORLD AS IT IS.