Raver's Manifesto
by Unknown
personalized by Daniela Pinto according to her beliefs

Our emotional state of choice is overpowered by intense joy, enthusiasm and passion. Our nourishment of choice is Love. Our addiction of choice is technology. Our religion of choice is music. Our currency of choice is knowledge. Our politics of choice is truthful (anti corruption and anti deceived). Our society of choice is the most open minded although we know it will never be.

You may dismiss us. You may misunderstand us. You may be unaware of our existence. We can only hope you do not care to judge us, because we would never judge you. We are not criminals. We are not disillusioned. We are not drug addicts. We are not naive children. We are one massive, global, sub culture that will become a movement, a culture, a society. We are The Massive. One Massive.

We were first drawn by the sound. From far away, the thunderous, silent, echoing beat of a heart in an electrical wiring. We were drawn back into the darkness of that beat; we came to accept that we are all the same. We came to accept that we are all equal. Not only to the darkness, and to ourselves, but to the very music slamming into us and passing through our souls: we are all equal. Creating a dance of freedom, letting us reach inner peace within ourselves and everyone around us. And somewhere we could feel a force pushing us to push ourselves to strengthen our minds, our bodies, and our spirits. Pushing us to turn to the person beside us to join hands and share the uncontrollable joy we felt from the magical bubble music created on us, protecting us from the atrocities, horrors, and mind pollution from the outside world. It is in that very instant, with these very realizations that each of us was truly born. We continue to pack our bodies into clubs, or warehouses, or buildings you've abandoned and left for naught, and we bring life to them for one night, leaving a memory that stays for life.

In these improvised spaces, we seek to shed ourselves of the burden of uncertainty for a future you have been unable to stabilize and secure for us. We seek to surrender our inhibitions, and free ourselves from the shackles and restraints you've put on us for your own peace of mind. We seek to re-write the programming that you have tried to train us with since the moment we were born. Programming that tells us to hate, that tells us to judge, that tells us to stuff ourselves into the nearest and most convenient pigeon hole possible. Programming that even tells us to climb ladders for you, jump through hoops, and run through mazes and on never ending hamster wheels. Programming that tells us to eat from the shiny silver spoon you are trying to feed us with, instead of nourish ourselves with our own capable hands. Programming that tells us to close our minds, instead of open them. Telling us to stick to the plan you’ve made for us instead of letting us expand it, improve it, create it.

Until the sun rises to burn our eyes by revealing the crude reality of the world you've created for us, we dance fiercely with our brothers and sisters in celebration of our life, of our culture, and of the values we believe in: Peace, Love, Freedom, Tolerance, Unity, Harmony, Expression, Responsibility and Respect.

Our choice of moral is PLUR. Our enemy of choice is ignorance. Our weapon of choice is information. Our crime of choice is breaking and challenging whatever laws you feel you need to put in place to stop us from celebrating our existence. But know that while you may shut down and raid any given party, on any given night, in any given city, in any given country or continent on this beautiful planet, you can never shut down the entire party going on worldwide. You don't have access to that switch, no matter what you may think. The music will never stop. The heartbeat will never fade. The party will never end. You can’t stop the movement! I am a raver, and this is my manifesto.