“ And the meaning of psych has changed a lot since the 60s, too! In a more rigid social world, blowing your mind seemed like a really transgressive thing to do. Today, I think everybody’s experience of their own subjectivity is already fragmented and dispersed — today’s psych tends so heavily towards drone and New Age because people want therapeutic unification, not explosive convulsion. And that unifying, meditative impulse can seem transgressive or liberating because dominant ideology now doesn’t demand that you become a square or an organization man, it demands that you be willing to adjust to constant change and chaos, that you be infinitely flexible, that you subsume your entire identity and lifestyle within the sphere of exchange.”
Could’ve just reblogged the Black Dice video to which Tower of Sleep appended this (and more) text, but frankly I wanted to highlight the words, not the music.
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