Our emotion of choice is Ecstacy. Our nourishment of choice is Love. Our
addiction of choice is technology. Our religion of choice is music. Our
currency of choice is knowledge. Our politics of choice is none. Our
society of choice is utopian though we know it will never be.

You may hate us. You may dismiss us. You may misunderstand us. You may be
unaware of our existence. We can only hope you don’t care to judge us,
because we would never judge you. We are not criminals. We are not
disillusioned. We are not drug addicts. We are not naive children. We are
one massive, global, tribal village that transcends man-made law, physical
geography, and even time itself. We are the Massive. One Massive.

We were first drawn by the sound. From far away, the muffled, echoing beat
was comparable to a mother's heart soothing a child in her womb of
concrete, steel, and electrical wiring. We were drawn back into this womb.
In the heat, dampness, and darkness of it, we came to accept that we were
all the same, that we were all equal. Not only to the darkness, but to the
music slamming into us and passing through our very souls, we are all the
same. Somewhere around 35Hz we could feel the hand of God at our backs,
pushing us forward, pushing us to push ourselves to strengthen our minds,
our bodies, and our spirits. Pushing us to turn to the person beside us to
lift them up by sharing the uncontrollable joy we feel from creating this
magical bubble that the horrors, atrocities, and pollution of the outside
world cannot penetrate for this one evening. And we continue to pack our
bodies into clubs, or warehouses, or buildings you've abandoned and left
for nought, and we bring life to them for one night. Strong, throbbing,
vibrant life in it's purest, most intense, most frenzied, most hedonistic
form.

And during the night we seek to shed ourselves of the burden of uncertainty
for a future you have been unable to stabilize and secure for us. We seek
to relinquish our inhibitions, and free ourselves from the shackles and
restraints you've put on us for your own peace of mind. We seek to re-write
the programming that you have tried to indoctrinate us with since the
moment we were born. Programming that tells us to hate, that tells us to
judge, that tells us to stuff ourselves into the nearest and most
convenient pigeon hole possible. Programming that even tells us to climb
ladders for you, jump through hoops, and run through mazes and on hamster
wheels. Programming that tells us to eat from the shiny silver spoon you
are trying to feed us with, instead of nourishing ourselves with our own
capable hands. Programming that tells us to close our minds, instead of
open them.

Until the sun rises to burn our eyes with the distopian reality of the
world you’ve created for us, we dance fiercely with our brothers and
sisters in celebration of our life, of our culture, and of the values we
believe in: Peace, Love, Freedom, Tolerance, Unity, Harmony, Expression,
Responsibility and Respect.

Our enemy of choice is ignorance. Our weapon of choice is information. Our
crime of choice is breaking and challenging whatever laws you feel you need
to put in place to stop us from celebrating our existence. But know that
while you may shut down any given party, on any given night, in any given
city, in any given country or continent on this beautiful planet, you can
never shut down the entire party. You don't have access to that switch, no
matter what you may think. The music will never stop. The heartbeat will
never fade. The party will never end. I am a raver, and this is my
manifesto.