Perspektive lyrics

Artist  : Laibach 
Song : Perspektive



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 (Perspektiven / Perspectives)
[Spoken in English:]
Laibach takes over an organisational system of
work, after the model of
industrial production and totalitarism,
collective spirit, identification
with ideology, which means: not the individual,
but the organisation
speaks. Our work is industrial, our language
political. Laibach is a
recognition of time universality. Its
organisational activity is an
intense agitation and a constant systematic
propagating, ideological
offensive. Any social activity affects the mass.
Laibach functions as a
creative allusion of strict institutionality,
identification with
institution, as stock theatre, or popular culture
with a centralized
programme. One transmitter and a multitude of
receivers, and with a
communication through uncommunication. Laibach's
musical approach is a
move to the area of pure politization of sounds
as a means of manipulating
the masses. When, in politically and economically
complicated situations,
the antagonism in society is becoming strained,
only force remains as the
ultima ratio of social integration. The force
must adopt the form of
systematic, physical and psychic terror,
organized in accordance with
social relations. Terror is obtaining a function
of productional power,
which extorts discipline and an adaptation of the
mass, to the existing
productional relations, and the existing
productional apparatus. For the
totalitarian form of government, the systematic
terror becomes a
constitutional instrument of authority. Through
the mystic,
erotic-mythological sound, constitution of an
ambivalence between fear and
fascination, which rudimentarily affects the
consciousness of people,
through stage performances of ritualized
demonstration of political power,
and through other manipulative means of an
individual, Laibach practises a
sound force, in a form of systematic,
psycho-physical terror as social
organisational principle, in order to effectively
discipline and raise a
feeling of total adherence bond of a certain,
revolted and alienated
audience, which results in a state of collective
[athasia?], which is the
principle of social organisation. In this sense,
the function of Laibach,
sound constructions, and of rock concerts is to
challenge collective
emotions and automatic associations, and as such
it serves as the means of
working stimulation. By darkening the consumer's
mind, it drives him into
a state of humble contrition and total obedience,
self-sacrifice, by
destroying every trait of individuality, it melts
the individuals into a
mass, and mass into a humble, collective body.
The dualism of Laibach's
message, perception and receiver's structure
uncovers the social neurosis.
Laibach unites the biters and antagonistics into
an expression of static,
totalitarism cry. Our basic inspiration, ideals
which are not ideals to
their form, but the material of Laibach,
manipulation of self, remains an
industrial production: art of the Third Reich,
totalitarism, taylorism,
bruitism, disco. Disco rhythm, as a regular
repetition, is the purest, the
most radical form of the militantly organised
rhythmicity of technicist
production, and as such the most appropriate
means of media manipulation.
As an archetypal structural basis of the
collective unconscious in a
worker mass, it stimulates automatic mechanism,
and shapes
industrialisation of consciousness, which is
necessary in the logic of
massive, totalitarian, industrial production.
[I had to write this one down by ear... Took me
hours.]