Step 1: Acquire The Underground

When society degenerates, Anthony Burgess envisions in his A Clockwork Orange gangs of Ruffians fueled on milk, ultra-violence and supremacy taking control of the streets. The ruffians, addicted to pure adrenaline, are the masters of all counter-culture. Equipped with their own slang, uniforms and hideouts, these misfits are the template for running the streets. Original heavy metal band Black Sabbath accurately summarizes dystopia in the apocalypse-charged song Hole In The Sky:

"I've Watched The Dogs Of War Enjoying Their Feast,

I've Seen The Western World Go Down in The East.

The Food Of Love Became The Greed Of Our Time,

And Now We're Living On The Profits Of Crime."

The Counter Culture is nurtured through resistance to mainstream behavior, and that is exactly what is preparing itself to emerge. Lightworkers, as mentioned in the previous post, are aware of the potential for the counter culture to gain control of the harness of society in a way that would mirror the situation in A Clockwork Orange, minus the ultra-violence. One of our era's most profound Lightworkers, Terrence McKenna, anti-materialist philosopher, ethnobotanist and author, has left his entire life's body of work up to the hands of future Lightworkers to move forward with. On culture, McKenna says:

"We have to create culture; don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media.

...You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world." 

As a lecturer, McKenna also focused on aspects of Western Culture that are flagrantly counterproductive to our necessary transition into greater awareness. Among his targets is ego, one of the major hindrances of creativity:

"Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable." 

As a Milwaukee youth, my exposure to counter culture was delightfully nurtured at a young age.
Among them are:

• Brew City Bruisers, Milwaukee's All-Woman Roller Derby Team: http://www.brewcitybruisers.com/
• Dead Man's Carnival, A Sideshow Entertainment Guild: http://thirdcoastdigest.com/2008/07/dead-mans-carnival/
• Longest Running Rocky Horror Picture Show Production in the World: http://cinematreasures.org/theater/443/
• The Milwaukee Underground Metal Scene, especially 'Thrash 'N Roll:' www.myspace.com/rocknrollbrothas
• Art house Galleries like the Borg Ward: http://theborgward.org/

If you live in an area of one-track minded streams of personality, then you will be delighted to visit Milwaukee to stumble upon diverse sub units of frolicking peace-lovers that would otherwise be overlooked in our world of mass media dehumanization. Transcendentalism is all about the connection. Ants are one of the most cooperative species, and anyone who has seen the progress of an ant farm knows what figurative "direction" our species must go next: colonization from the underground to above.

While mass mainstream culture can identify with a "hive mind" mentality, it is the incorrect one. Counter-culture youth who stay true to their individualities are the catalyst to human colonization of many levels incorporated into one: socially, spiritually, and subconsciously. According to www.in5d.com, catalysts to the human consciousness revolution must materialize from sub-cultures:

"It is up to those who want this shift to connect with others of like mind and begin actively creating networks of real cooperation. The old will crumble. The new period will dawn with its growing pains, the severity of which depends on our ability to accept what is happening and go with the flow. This, he says, requires evolving to unconditional love, with an open and simple heart, forgiveness, and cooperation with less ego competition."
All that is required of us is brotherhood, love, and an unbreakable sense of community. Even existentialists are beginning to sense that cooperation with like-minded groups holds more power than one individual. Follow your nearest inspirational guide, whichever way their message of spreading unity takes. Phish concerts are a great place to witness this invisible trait in action. Ever heard of the movie The Warriors? Like a fractal pattern, even the tiniest of patterns is enough to replicate itself to infinite sizes:

Spread the word about this blog. We are the beginning of the fractal pattern, and when others of like groups are assembled, a powerful cultural shift will take hold as McKenna aptly prescribes. Stay tuned for more!

In Veritas!

SubTemplum