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From laura@usl.com Fri Jul 16 07:10:16 1993
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From: laura@usl.com
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Mike P. writes:
>craig.. yeah, i'm with you.. i go to raves to listen to music, dance, and
>see people i like. and if everyone was there to do just that, then the
>tolerance and so on just follow cuz we're all having fun. :)
>
>does that makes sense? i thought not..
Acutally, it does make sense, and is the base point from where the "rave
ideals" can spring.
Let me tell you a rather long-winded story . . . .
The "four pillars" of the "house" or "rave" community are PEACE, LOVE, UNITY,
and RESPECT. I'd always heard peace/love/unity around here (here being
the East Coast) but it wasn't until I came in contact with people from San
Francisco who were really into the scene (okay, you guessed, it was Leah and
Brian) that I heard the fourth one, RESPECT.
And then suddenly it all came clear to me. You can't have peace, love, and
unity without respect. And even more importantly, each individual is
responsible for finding and maintaining and giving peace, love, unity, and
respect. It isn't just handed to you. It doesn't just magically appear
because you've arrived at a rave or taken some acid or ecstacy. You have to
find it and generate it for yourself, and then GIVE IT AWAY to anyone and
everyone to sort of "jump start" them into generating it. The "giving away"
of it is what makes up, in my mind, the "vibe."
PEACE -- peace is what you use to chill out when the sound system blows and
the music stops for ten minutes. It's what you use when some idiot keeps
bumping in to you while dancing. It's sort of like serenity and being calm.
Shit happens, and you deal with it.
LOVE -- love is an unconditional appreciation of something or someone. It
combines with peace to allow you to think things like "Frankie Bones isn't
a bad guy, in spite of his flapping mouth." The peace gives you the chill
factor so you can get to the unconditional love.
UNITY -- once you have peace and love, unity follows in that you can appreciate
other people and other things, and this appreciation allows you to work
together with them, or spend time together with them, and otherwise
support them, even if you don't always agree with them. A sense of something
"bigger" than just yourself and your own pleasure is part of unity -- in the
case of us on the list the "bigger" thing is an interest in the odd social
phenomena known as "raving." Unity helps me to do things like throw good
parties for the ne-raves list, even though there *are* people who are on
the list and who might come to these parties who I'd rather not have anything
to do with . . . it is in the spirit of greater unity that I chill with these
feelings (peace again) and welcome everyone into my home so they can be
together and have fun.
RESPECT -- this, to me, is the key that is often missing in our scene. People
get too much into flamage (and I admit, I've been guilty of this). People are
more worried about being DISrespected by others, rather than concentrating on
generating and giving respect. This is the most difficult one for me to
explain, because I've had the least amount of time to think about it . . . but
as an example, take the general fiascos that happen every time someone posts
to ne-raves rather than ne-raves-request . I usually write back and say
"humm, you forgot the -request part, try to remember it in the future" rather
than getting nasty and insulting the other person. (Actually, I've gotten so
damn sick of people not remembering the -request part that I actually don't
even bother to respond to those messages coming through the net anymore.)
Respect also includes things like NOT graffiting on walls at raves, picking
up your trash, and giving whatever you can as a donation when the hat is passed
at a free event. It also includes seperating yourself from that what you
don't like, while allowing it to continue uninterrupted because people other
than yourself are getting enjoyment from it (for example, take my feelings
toward the majority of breakbeat: I really don't like it, so when it is
played I go chill with some friends and wait until the set is over . . . I
used to whine and complain, but then it sunk in to me that OTHER people were
getting something from it, and by trying to supress their enjoyment I was
showing extreme disrespect for them.)
Love and community,
Laura