The Revolutionary Pleasure of Thinking for Yourself
Do you feel upside down? with a nagging feeling that the world is far from ideal and free thinking for yourself is considered over–rated in an ever expanding media induced 21st Century haze.
Do you feel upside down? with a nagging feeling that the world is far from ideal and free thinking for yourself is considered over–rated in an ever expanding media induced 21st Century haze.
A provovative response to the simple question what is to be done? from way–way back (1988) DON’T — ‘I think the answer to this is not only nothing but considerably less, than nothing … and what I mean by that is that the real solutions to our problems lie in a series of negatives.’
We were seven years old when 1980 arrived. The currency of music in the playground was without doubt the compact cassette tape and the beloved mix-tape. We spent hours sitting next to the radio trying to time the perfect recording of 1999 and hustling friends for their uninterrupted version of Take on Me or Mirror Man.
Think about your journey to work, or class from home each day, how far do you stray from a well trodden path slash route? With the advent of hand-held illuminated devices (location services willingly enabled mapping your position on the earth) we are, sheepishly some might say, directed and overseen by the shadow of humanity.