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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