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subMedia Presents

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una pelicula de franklin lopez

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inspired by the book 'days of war, nights of love' by Crimethinc.

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join the resistance fall in love

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"radio static"

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its a beautiful day outside

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maybe I should call in sick

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Falling in love is the ultimate act of revolution, of resistance to today's tedious, socially restrictive,

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...culturally constrictive, patently ridiculous world.

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Love transforms the world.

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Where the over formerly felt boredom, he now feels passion.

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Where she once was complacent,

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she now is excited and compelled to self-asserting action.

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The world which once seemed empty and tiresome

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becomes filled with meaning,

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filled with risks and rewards,

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with majesty and danger.

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Life for the lover is a gift,

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an adventure with the highest possible stakes;

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every moment is memorable,

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heartbreaking in its fleeting beauty.

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When he falls in love, a man who once felt disoriented,

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alienated, and confused finally knows exactly what he wants.

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Suddenly his existence makes sense to him;

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it becomes valuable, even glorious and noble.

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Love even poses a threat to our society itself.

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Passionate love is ignored and feared by the bourgeois

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for it poses a great danger to the stability and pretense they covert.

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Love permits no lies, no falsehoods,

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not even any polite half-truths,

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but lays all emotions bare and reveals secrets

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which domesticated men and women cannot bare.

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You cannot lie with your emotional and sexual response.

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Situations or ideas excite or repel you, whether you like it or not.

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Whether it is polite or not

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whether it is advisable or not

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You cannot be a lover and a (dreadfully) responsible,

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(dreadfully) respectable member of today's society at the same time

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Love makes it possible for individuals to connect to others

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in a meaningful way

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It impels them to leave their shells

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and risk being being honest and spontaneous together.

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To come to know each other in profound ways

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Thus love makes it possible for us to care about each other genuinely,

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rather than at the end of a gun of Christian doctrine.

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But at the same time it plucks the lover out of the routines

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a million miles away from the herd of humanity,

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living as she is in a world entirely different from theirs.

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In this sense love is subversive,

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because it poses a threat to the established order of our modern lives.

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The boring rituals of workday productivity and socialized etiquette

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no longer mean anything to a man who has fallen in love,

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for there are more important forces guiding him than mere inertia and deference to tradition.

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Marketing strategies that depend upon apathy or insecurity

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have no effect upon him.

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Entertainment designed for passive consumption,

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which depends upon exhaustion or cynicism

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can no longer interest him.

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There is no place for the passionate, romantic lover

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in today's world, business or private.

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For he can see that it might be more worthwhile to hitchhike to Alaska

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or to sit in the park and watch the clouds sail by

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with his sweetheart than to study for his calculus exam or sell real estate,

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And if he decides that it is, he will have the courage to do it

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rather than be tormented by unsatisfied longing.

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He knows that breaking into a cemetery and making love under the stars

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will make for a much more memorable night than watching television ever could.

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So love poses a threat to our consumer driven economy which depends upon consumption.

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Similarly, love poses a threat to our political system,

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for it it difficult to convince a man who has a lot to live for in his personal relationships

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to be willing to fight and die for an abstraction such as the state;

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for that matter, it may be difficult to convince him to even pay taxes.

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It poses a threat to cultures of all kinds, for when human beings are given wisdom

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and valor by true love they will not be held back by traditions or customs

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which are irrelevant to the feelings that guide them.

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Love does indeed pose quite a threat to our society.

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What if everyone decided right and wrong for themselves

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without any regard for conventional morality?

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What if everyone did everything they wanted to with the courage to face any consequences?

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What if everyone feared loveless monotony more than they fear taking risks,

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more than they fear being hungry or cold or in danger?

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What if everyone set down their "responsibilities" and "common sense",

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and dared to pursue their wildest dreams,

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to set the stakes high and live each day as if it were their last?

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Think about what a place the world would be!

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Certainly it would be different than it is now

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and it is quite a truism that people from the "mainstream",

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the simultaneous keepers and victims of the status quo,

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fear change.

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We must fight against these cultural restraints that would cripple,

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and smother our desires.

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For it is love that gives meaning to life,

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desire that makes it possible for us to make sense of our existence

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and find purpose in our lives.

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Without these, there is no way for us to determine how to live our lives,

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except to submit to some authority, to some god,

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master or doctrine that will tell us what to do and how to do it

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without ever giving us the satisfaction that self-determination does.

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And so despite the stereotype images

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used in the media to sell toothpaste and honeymoon suites

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genuine passionate love is discouraged in our culture.

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Being carried away by our emotions is frowned upon

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Instead we are raised to always be on our guard.

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Lest our hearts lead us astray

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rather than being encouraged to having the courage to face the consequences

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of risks at all

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to be responsible

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and love itself is regulated.

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Men must not fall in love with other men,

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nor women with other women,

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nor individuals from other ethnic backgrounds with each other,

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or else the usual bigots who form the front-line offensive

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in the assault of modern Western culture upon the individual will step in.

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Men and women who have already entered into a legal/religious contract

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are not to fall in love with anyone else, even if they no longer feel any passion for their marital partners.

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Love as most of us know it today is a carefully prescribed and preordained ritual,

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something that happens on Friday nights in expensive movie theaters and restaurants,

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something that fills the pockets of the shareholders in the entertainment industries

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without preventing workers from showing up to the office on time

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and ready to reroute phone calls all day long.

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This regulated, commercial "love" is not like the burning fire that consumes

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the genuine lover.

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Restrictions, expectations, and regulations smother true love;

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love is a wild flower that can never grow within the confines prepared for it

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but only appears where it is least expected.

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The lover speaks a different moral and emotional language

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than the typical bourgeois man does.

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The average bourgeois man has no overwhelming, smoldering desires.

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Sadly, all he knows is the silent despair that comes of spending his life

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pursing goals set for him by his educators, his family, his employers, his nation,

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his nation, and his culture.

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True love is irresponsible, rebellious,

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scornful of cowardice,

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dangerous to the lover and everyone around her.

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for it serves one master alone

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the passion that makes the heart beat faster.

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It disdains anything else

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but its self preservation

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duty, or shame.

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Love urges men and women to heroism and anti heroism

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to indefensible acts that need no defense for the one who loves