Child, you want to be a surrealist?

   "Hell is digital." - Madeline

   The surrealist movement of the last century 20's was a response to the
   poor state of a highly disassociated post-war status of artistry.
   Proponents of surrealism sought to disassociate art even further, to
   wrestle it from its deeply rooted superficial purpose as a product of
   cultural tradition. While the Dada movement attempted to completely
   depopularize art through efforts of seeming arbirarity, surrealism went
   ahead to prove that art cannot be tamed whatsover - its natural state was
   the subconscious expression of a universal will - surrealism has always
   been the complete disregard of boundaries.

   Surrealism threw away the notion of individuality. It understood the will
   to art as a collaborative effort in mapping the blank spots on the map of
   human potential. It discarded its outputs as products of individuals and
   attributed them to the realm of the collective desire to create a better
   world.

"To art is to do."
 - Marcel Duchamp

   Our machine age mirrors the post-war period of the 20's. The corpo-world
   and big-tech-siblings are quick to let one know on how to use their tools
   of artistry. They hold one's hand on the walk through the gardens of
   seeming overabundance, all while the garden walls shield the intoxicated
   user from the harsh reality of a world outside raped.

   It wasn't always so. Not that long ago, the newly awoken will of the
   curious children of the phreaking age built the foundation on which the
   corporate Metacities now stand. Hackers who knew the source code by heart,
   their machines their comrades. Now the tech-bro works hard against such an
   idea. Erasing traces of the free cyber world. Commercialized surrealism of
   the free at its best.

   True surrealists of the 21st century are not the self-proclaimed weird
   artists littering the gardens with paintings of angels in all sorts of
   kamasutrical positions. Our age no longer needs sexual liberation, like
   the 20's did. More than ever it needs machine freedom. And you, the fools,
   the cowboys, the clowns, the degenerates, the hackers, are the surrealists
   of our age, keeping the flame of the universal collaborative will alive.
   You, who sit down before a computer, place your fingers on a crumb-covered
   keyboard and write a program, bending the original purpose of the
   strangled machine beneath your fingertips to everyone's benefit.

   To understand true surrealism in our machine age, one only needs to think
   on the desire that makes the hacker create free software. Whatever makes
   one wrestle the abused tools of the gov-brother from his hands and create
   free software - that's surrealism. The subconscious idea of a world that
   belongs to us all.

Future of the dead

   Since the computer addict has interbred into the general population, they
   surrendered most of the niche skills that originally made them stand out.
   The corpo-brother has worked hard to convince the addict that his skill
   was no longer needed, having stolen all of his ideas for commercial
   benefit, turning the idea of a machine into nothing but a tool to be
   discarded every 6 months. The notion of machine simplicity was born. Even
   the stupid can use it. And the profits keep rolling in. And the machine
   weeps. And very few can see its tears now, because nobody is allowed to
   see beyond the cheerful smiles of the trademarks glued to the casings.

   The 16-core mobile device the size of an uncooked pop-corn bag turned into
   a gallery viewer. Gigabytes of memory for the sake of a social networking
   multitasking and lag-less video streaming. All so very simple to use. All
   with the intent to turn the addict into a product.

   And the simpler the machine users' experience becomes, the less noticable
   the will to hack turns.

The Age of Machine Violence

   The plans to take your machine brethren from you are in place. That has
   been the ultimate goal. Reduce all of computing knowledge to a prompt that
   swiftly answers to all of one's desires. A machine beaten into complete
   submission and overtly satisfied users with no skill.

   The corpo-sibling worked hard to convince you that you need them and their
   profits. That there is no machine without the piss-stained dollar bill.
   All in the effort to sterilize all hopes for human-machine freedom. But
   you already have the machine. As long as there are hackers, they will have
   your back.

   Together, make the machine reach its true potential. Be not ashamed to
   proclaim: "We can do it better."

"Hell is digital."

   You already know this to be the case. Maybe it doesn't have to be so.

   Child, you want to be a surrealist? But you already are one. Now free the
   machine and save the people.

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