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Earlier in our conversations, you were<br />
touching the subject of observation, experience<br />
and individual empowerment.<br />
While reading another interview of yours,<br />
I noticed how much you were<br />
being critical towards capitalism<br />
in general, especially regarding<br />
the fixed state of<br />
things, and how man, now<br />
that he seriously believes<br />
that everything is as it should<br />
be, isn't able anymore to picture<br />
himself up to another<br />
level of reality. Having now in<br />
mind Theodor Adorno and his<br />
famous phrase - "the task of<br />
art today is to bring chaos<br />
into order" - I would guess<br />
that Supervillain Outcast is not only a<br />
path you've found leading to self-growth<br />
and self-realization, but also, somehow,<br />
your personal statement against the actual<br />
forms of social order. Maybe I'm all<br />
wrong here, but I just want you to <strong>com</strong>ment<br />
on the possible power of artistic<br />
idealism and freedom, when it <strong>com</strong>es to<br />
their impact on our system's economical<br />
and human total decadence? Is that<br />
something you are conscious about<br />
when you start thinking about how DHG<br />
is linked with the world<br />
where its music is conceived?<br />
In other<br />
words: how does a supervillain<br />
outcast relate<br />
to the city that<br />
first nurtured himself?<br />
Those two things you<br />
mentioned above are no<br />
contradictions; they are<br />
flip-sides of the coin. Yes,<br />
I despise a lot of things,<br />
but I am content over<br />
everything’s brief moment<br />
in history. So I am content<br />
despising. It takes<br />
one big change for the<br />
whole world to be affected<br />
by it. This in turn<br />
will change what made the change in the first<br />
place, and there you have the process all<br />
over again. This is the pulse of the world; all<br />
energy is an always constant thing. Yes, I am<br />
the observer, not the meddler, I meddle with<br />
people who are within my sphere here in life,<br />
and they go inflicting their life on someone<br />
else. The importance of self-growth is really<br />
simple; without it, there is nothing. You yourself<br />
have to value your ideals and your words<br />
worth through practicing your disciplines under<br />
conditions you don’t control to really understand<br />
who you are. Reading books does<br />
not cut it. That’s basically smooching off<br />
somebody else’s valuable life earnings. Prac-<br />
21<br />
ticing while being unchallenged will most<br />
probably mean that your mental projection of<br />
yourself is manifested in what you would like<br />
to be, not what you are.<br />
Humans are funny; I<br />
think if you would have<br />
asked ten people to define<br />
an intelligent person,<br />
99 percent would build<br />
up a character very<br />
much like themselves.<br />
People tend to call people<br />
they agree with for<br />
smart just based on<br />
agreeing. I think it’s very<br />
easy for humans to be<br />
drawn to what they want<br />
to represent themselves with, so they can get<br />
and project their answers from their <strong>com</strong>panionship.<br />
You can really see the weakness in<br />
the human race through their habits. This is<br />
an element that shows how tired and lazy the<br />
human being has really be<strong>com</strong>e. Always<br />
striving for this outside validity, and confirming<br />
themselves through their group, partner<br />
and constructions. The dance between Chaos<br />
and Order works as much on a cellular order<br />
as on a galactic scale. We are very much part<br />
of this dance, we can even momentarily disturb<br />
the equilibrium of it. Holding<br />
on to our false structures of truth<br />
will only make the process of failing<br />
more painful. The human race<br />
is really part of something <strong>com</strong>pletely<br />
different, but we tend to<br />
put absolute truth into what we<br />
ourselves have created, that’s why<br />
we cannot let go, and probably<br />
why the human race will mean<br />
absolutely nothing in the end. DHG<br />
is part of my practice; one could<br />
transform all of my efforts in life<br />
endeavour into relating to DHG on<br />
a smaller scale. Success is a key<br />
word, but you have to measure<br />
success yourself, so you really<br />
understand what it means.<br />
I am not from a specific City; I<br />
was born in Oslo, raised in Stockholm and<br />
New Delhi area and have also lived in places<br />
like Askim and Malaga. I feel love for cities,<br />
but what I love is what I have experienced<br />
there. The experience is mine, not the City’s.<br />
For me as an idealist, I must craft myself to<br />
just as <strong>com</strong>fortable in a castle as in a coffin.<br />
Thanks a lot to Mr. Parvez for his precious<br />
time. I hope that you all had a good time<br />
reading through his mind. Maybe to be continued...
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