Unite the Write! The OW rallying cry. It’s a good motto and I like it. But it can be a bit misleading. We’re obviously not trying to unite everyone...........
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Unite the Write! The OW rallying cry. It’s a good motto and I like it. But it can be a bit misleading. We’re obviously not trying to unite everyone. Just Outsiders. There is, of course, a long definition of an Outsider. Colin Wilson wrote an entire book of definition, analysis and examples on the subject. The short of it, however, is that an Outsider is a misfit, outlaw, vision-seeker, slacker, etc. An Outsider isn’t a conservative or a religious fundamentalist of any sort. For the most part, saying “fuck you” to the establishment, the power elite, is the only thing all Outsiders have in common. Not a hell of a lot to build a network or a movement on but it’s something. It’s a start. Unite the write is a damn hard thing to accomplish. Especially considering that we’re dealing with artists. And we know that, as a whole, artists are a fragile lot. But it has to be done. It has to be done because there’s no hope in the traditional bourgeois Western culture. We can’t repair it. It doesn’t want to be fixed anyway. War and disease and fat piggy children. Such is the West. But the Outsider represents new thought and new art. The most vibrant and interesting artistic works. A nearly undiscovered wealth of psychic material. If we’re gonna find a new way, it’s gotta be Outsider. It’s enough to give me hope. And if it’s enough to give me hope, maybe it gives other people hope. Or maybe I’ve lost my mind or I’m chasing my tail. It’s hard to tell, sometimes. But I need something, anything, really to ease these sweat-soaked nightmares I have nearly every night. If unite the write is to occur, if it even should occur, it’s going to be a goddamn hard thing to accomplish. But do we even need to come together? I think we do. I think that numbers are hard to deny. I think that we need a great and mighty mob. Unite the write. Tread carefully or the whole thing goes to shit. But, above all, unite the fuckin’ write.
Last update : 20-04-2008 20:09
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