| Lyrics: | Perspektiven / Perspectives)
[Spoken in English:]
Laibach takes over an
organisational system of work, after the model of
industrial production and totalitarism,
collective spirit, identification
with ideology, which means: not the individual, but the
organisation
speaks. Our work is industrial, our language political. Laibach is
a
recognition of time universality. Its organisational activity is an
intense agitation
and a constant systematic propagating, ideological
offensive. Any social activity affects the
mass. Laibach functions as a
creative allusion of strict institutionality, identification
with
institution, as stock theatre, or popular culture with a centralized
programme. One
transmitter and a multitude of receivers, and with a
communication through uncommunication.
Laibach's musical approach is a
move to the area of pure politization of sounds as a means of
manipulating
the masses. When, in politically and economically complicated situations,
the
antagonism in society is becoming strained, only force remains as the
ultima ratio of social
integration. The force must adopt the form of
systematic, physical and psychic terror,
organized in accordance with
social relations. Terror is obtaining a function of productional
power,
which extorts discipline and an adaptation of the mass, to the
existing
productional relations, and the existing productional apparatus. For
the
totalitarian form of government, the systematic terror becomes a
constitutional
instrument of authority. Through the mystic,
erotic-mythological sound, constitution of an
ambivalence between fear and
fascination, which rudimentarily affects the consciousness of
people,
through stage performances of ritualized demonstration of political power,
and
through other manipulative means of an individual, Laibach practises a
sound force, in a form
of systematic, psycho-physical terror as social
organisational principle, in order to
effectively discipline and raise a
feeling of total adherence bond of a certain, revolted and
alienated
audience, which results in a state of collective [athasia?], which is
the
principle of social organisation. In this sense, the function of Laibach,
sound
constructions, and of rock concerts is to challenge collective
emotions and automatic
associations, and as such it serves as the means of
working stimulation. By darkening the
consumer's mind, it drives him into
a state of humble contrition and total obedience,
self-sacrifice, by
destroying every trait of individuality, it melts the individuals into
a
mass, and mass into a humble, collective body. The dualism of Laibach's
message,
perception and receiver's structure uncovers the social neurosis.
Laibach unites the biters and
antagonistics into an expression of static,
totalitarism cry. Our basic inspiration, ideals
which are not ideals to
their form, but the material of Laibach, manipulation of self, remains
an
industrial production: art of the Third Reich, totalitarism, taylorism,
bruitism,
disco. Disco rhythm, as a regular repetition, is the purest, the
most radical form of the
militantly organised rhythmicity of technicist
production, and as such the most appropriate
means of media manipulation.
As an archetypal structural basis of the collective unconscious in
a
worker mass, it stimulates automatic mechanism, and shapes
industrialisation of
consciousness, which is necessary in the logic of
massive, totalitarian, industrial
production.
[I had to write this one down by ear... Took me hours |
