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Hey,

We need something new . . . can’t keep riding this ’ol horse it croaks.

Gotta find a mustang . . . one perky sonnuva bitch . . . and ride it to glory.

But what is glory?

Glory is upending surveillance capitalism and replacing it with the original FREENET.

Glory is making sure the price of every product tells the ecological truth.

Glory is downsizing corporations.

Glory is making the godless and immoral straight line wobble again.

Glory is bringing this techno-capitalist doomsday machine of ours to a sudden, shuddering halt.

But how do we get there?

The tone of our world right now’s a never-ending scream.

There is nowhere to get quiet, to go deep, to head out and hunt for the wild mustang.

We have to change the tone, the feel, the aesthetic of the world so there’s time for dreaming again.

So we made you this.

If you’re an artist, a designer, a creative, then this is the fuck-AI aesthetic you’ve been looking for.

It’ll be the dominant aesthetic vibe of the 21st century.

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You’ve got til Sunday midnight.

Let’s ride.

Moment of Truth

Hey, have you ever thought about the future like this?

All our existential crises — climate change, the corporate takeover of the world, AI — are global crises. And they can only be solved if we the people of the world act as one.

To get there we need a spiritual breakthrough — that mystical aha moment that many astronauts have had on their cosmic travels:

This little blue dot of ours is ONE.

We have to transcend thousands of years of failed ideologies and top down thinking . . . imagine a powerful new way to connect with one another . . . give birth to the first truly global political movement in history . . . and start calling the shots from below!

This is the only way we’ll survive the flood and fury of the 21st century.

Join us HERE and let’s fly the ONE WORLD flag.

I can’t believe it.

Raoul Vaneigem died. He was one of my heroes in the 60s.

His book, The Revolution of Everyday Life, was such a powerful force. The idea that every intimate, little aspect of your life can change if you really want it to. Fuck, what an epiphany.

That’s how I want to be . . . that’s the way I want to live!

Back then, it felt like we were on the cusp of world revolution. Young people were awake, alive, and fighting like hell to swerve our sicko world in a bold, beautiful new direction. In Haight Ashbury, Chicago . . . Tokyo, Beijing, Mexico City . . . Prague, West Berlin, and Frankfurt too . . . we all felt the spark. Raoul Vaneigem and other Situationists like Guy Debord carried it through.

The Revolution of Everyday Life has stayed with me ever since. Everything we’ve done at Adbusters — Buy Nothing Day, Occupy Wall Street, and now this idea of giving birth to a new political ideology and launching Blackspot Parties around the world — it’s all been driven by people like him and that extraordinary spark.

Now, the big question hangs over us:

Is there enough of that spark left to morph this doomsday machine of ours into a new orbit?

“Daydreaming subverts the world.”

— KL