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manifesto
/ Purple
Resistance
Army
The Purple Resistance Army
is a united and federated
grouping of members who
have, under homosexual
and minority leadership,
formed and joined The
Purple Federated Republic
(PFR) and have agreed to
struggle together on
behalf of all their people
and races and sexes and
political parties' interests
in the gaining of Freedom
and Self Determination
and Independence for
all faggots and others.
The PRA declares
revolutionary war against
the Fascist Capitalist and
Largely Heterosexual
Class and all its agents
of murder, oppression
and exploitation.
WEH MIR, ICH GLAUBE, ICH HABE MICH BESCHISSEN! KAISER TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS, 54 N.CHR.
Never Trust Anyone Under 30!
This neo-axiom of the PRA is designed both as an historical
broadside against the age-ism that has become endemic to society,
and as a reminder that, under the new world order, tender youth
has long since lost its counter-cultural compass and can no longer
be trusted or relied upon to instigate or disseminate revolutionary
ideals a priori. Although voter turnout in the eighteen to twenty-five
year age demographic has dwindled in the past several decades
in western democracies, it is by no means a dependable indication
that the youth of today is anything less than a vast, empty
cadre of reactionary, close-minded clones who will swallow any
sort of predigested pablum that is placed in front of them.
Get To Know Your Asshole!
The Purple Resistance Army entreats all males, but particularly the
self-proclaimed "heterosexuals" to get in touch with their assholes,
by any means necessary. In an industrialized society which has
reached a point of abundance, a certain repression over and above
the one necessary to advance culture is forced on its citizens in
order to exert a particular notion of "normalcy" that is more aligned
with conformist social and institutional attitudes rather than ideas
of individual fulfillment. The redundant, unnecessary work upon
which advanced capitalism is predicated, results in a distraction
from one's own personal and sexual needs. A person who functions
normally in such a sick society is himself sick, while it is only the
"nonadjusted" individual who can achieve a healthy acting out
against the overly strict restraints and demands of the dominant
culture. It is such a society that prevents constitutionally bisexual
men from exploring their homosexuality, and in particular, from
getting to know their assholes. Many men can spend their entire
lives not experiencing the pleasure of the anus. Neglect of this
region leads to poor prostate health, general irritability, spiritual
malaise, or worse. Anal Liberation Now!
Discourse Sucks!
The Purple Resistance Army does not in general support or condone
artists or, in particular, art discourse, although bullshit artists
and their discourses are provisionally accepted. The art world
has become a purely reactive and reactionary institution whose
trends and tendencies are determined and circumscribed by the
broader conservative cultural forces and socio-economic policies
of an exploitative capitalist ruling class. As an alternative to the art
orthodoxy, the PRA promotes finger painting, free range graffiti,
tattooing (although not on pigs), home movies, ad hoc shrines –
or, for conceptualists, practical jokes, pranks, hoaxes, and public
nudity not organized and sanctioned by institutionalized art stars.
Counterintuitivity
The Purple Resistance Army, a militant band of insurgent sissies,
must not succumb to the current cycle of cynicism and apathy that
has infiltrated and destroyed the spirit of resistance, subversion
and highly civil disobedience that was once at the very core of
the homosexual psyche. In today’s topsy-turvy, wrong is right,
revolutionarily reactionary world, the members of the PRA must
learn to use counterintuitivity to fight its enemies.
Death to Celebrity!
Celebrity culture has become the biggest boondoggle of the
modern world, and members of the PRA must do everything in
their power to destroy it. "In the future everyone will be famous for
fifteen minutes" has been wildly misinterpreted as an endorsement
of celebrity for all as a kind of democratic principle in a capitalist
context. Warhol's real prediction for the future was probably more
along the lines of an Orwellian (or perhaps Kafkaesque) dystopic
nightmare in which each individual in society is forced, by means
of an assembly line or factory model, into a limited window of
fame/labour precisely fifteen minutes in duration, none more
significant or important than the next. Celebrity itself has become
a disease that mangles and maims the egos of those who suffer it,
reducing them to delusional paranoiacs who should be at the very
least, not paid very much attention to, at best, deprogrammed.
Down with Overexposure! Up with Anonymity!
Show Business is Politics/
Politics is Show Business.
Awards shows receive their own special category of condemnation
from the PRA for their smug self-congratulatoriness and
crass commercialism, propping up, as they do, the celebrity
infrastructure by lording the wealth and power of the privileged
few over the increasingly impoverished, debt-ridden anonymous
masses. Celebrities now campaign for major awards like
seasoned (read: corrupt) politicians, hiring teams of strategists
and publicists to promote their cause, while politicians are styled
and cosmetically sold to the public like programmatic B-list movie
stars. Death to the Hollywood insect who preys upon the life of
the people!
The Tyranny of Stylists
Modern styling has become particularly offensive to the PRA,
especially considering that it’s an invisible fifth column of our
tragically misguided misogynistic homosexual brothers, from
stylists to designers, who have dictated and enforced the
grotesque style imperatives that now govern the image of women
in the western world. A new model army of faux lap-dancers have
willingly conformed to the style of the hyper-objectified woman,
thereby capitulating to the male gaze. Cruelly, the advent of
high definition media technology only serves to exaggerate and
intensify the monstrosity of these highly engineered viral vixens
on television and, to a lesser degree, in the movies. File sharing
is not only true democracy in action, but it’s also environmentally
friendly! And remember, intellectual property is theft!
The Charm Offensive
Counterintuitively, PRA members must always be kind, courteous,
and polite. The fact that the world is going to hell in a Kate Spade
handbag is no excuse for rudeness.
Down with Revolutionary
Reactionaries!
A relatively recent phenomenon, the term revolutionary
reactionaries refers to formerly radical groups of disenfranchised
minorities and/or oppressed peoples who are now fighting,
sometimes violently, for the right to be conservative, stable, and
inert. From the French riots, during which so-called socialist
youths donned balaclavas and sacked the libraries of the
Sorbonne (the very site of the genesis of May ’68!) to promote
their fight for sedentary, entrenched job security; to angry gays
and lesbians struggling to participate in the military, marriage
and to adopt family values: the oppressed are doing a pretty
good job of oppressing themselves these days without the help
of hegemonic states, bureaucracies and institutions. The Purple
Resistance Army urgently implores you to Wake Up and Smell
the Tear Gas!