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DEMOLISH SERIOUSNESS
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We call on all theorists to pour coke on their word-processors and cease
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to think between January 3rd 1991 and December 31st 1994. Thought is a
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virus let loose on the world by a self-perpetuating elite in order to
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market paraphenalia of the thinker - books, paper, pens, art films, word
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processors, whisky... Intellectuals are the pet gerbils of the
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bourgeoisie, fed and watered by them to demonstrate their essential
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cuddlesomeness. Thought creates the illusion that through activities that
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are actually waste this civilisation is in touch with a "higher logic"
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which gives meaning to its activities. To call one person a "thinker" is
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to deny another the equal gift of cognition; thus the myth of originality
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becomes an ideological justification for the free market, mass culture and
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cancer.
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We call on all cognitional workers to recognise the materialist account of
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the origins of thinking and admit their parasitic antecedents in the
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traditions of monasticism. As bodies surplus to production medieval,
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cognitional workers were immured in the monaseries and employed in the
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production of the ideology that producting ideology was on a higher plane
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than producing food which in turn provided the theoretical underpinning
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for the notion that producing nothing was higher still. Only by breaking
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free of the bounds of their social function and ceasing thought altogether
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can cognitional workers hope to contribute to the movement for humanimal
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liberation.
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Thought - who needs it? We proclaim the Thought Moratorium -a total
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assault on rationality. Millions of people have had a wank without ever
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knowing what a syllogism is. How can we think when some people don't even
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have a hat?
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The Thought Moratorium will be launched at The Festival of Stupidity at
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galleries far and wide (24th-26th Dec.1990). Events already planned
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include short personal statements of bewilderment by several passers-by.
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The Festival will be immediately followed by a retrospective exhibition at
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the I.C.A. entitled "Thought: Was It?"
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DESTROY THE TRADITIONS OF THE DEAD GENERATIONS
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(Originally published in Here & Now no.9)
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