"It is not a particularly strange name, but it arouses curiosity. AFFLUENTE because everything starts from small things to which nobody pays attention, which then blend into something bigger. We show all possible respect for the microscopic, the imperceptible, because all these things are part of us". (cit. Carlo Cannella)
Introduction:
Dressed as an alpine soldier, I waved my saber soaked in “gasoline”; the flames drew messages of death for a society, ours, in full pre-apocalyptic delirium and socio-cultural decay.
Harassed by events, I generated misanthropic paranoias; whose idealistic solutions seemed to disintegrate and get lost in the tributaries of a swollen river, made of hate, anger and justice-driven ideologies on the brink of the obvious demagogic.
Conspiratorial dissertations whose motives are pointless to delve into; those who know me, know how my wheels turn and perhaps also where those have ended up that I stopped looking for a long time ago.
Then why so much fervor in my words?
Because pretending that nothing has happened, that nothing continues to happen, without having the strength to be indignant.
Why reset the dawn of intellectual battles against a world that once again opens its doors to new greed?
At least be able to leave, let free hunger say no to a life that uses love and pity, family and homeland to tie your hands, but you were not made to live like brutes but to pursue virtue and knowledge.
So those biological plasticities, sources of evolution that alternate between extremisms such as “Adaptation, Escape or Death” allow themselves to be subjugated by mirrors whose reflection is vain; whose reflection is synonymous with hypocrisy and lies, acquiring in the negative source of regression.
FAT ILLUMINED fools decide wars and the destinies of the global socio-financial market in the name of evolution and science, exporters of a democracy capitalized on oil sales, from which I and you BENEFIT… and this, for the avoidance of doubt, never forget.
The logics of immediacy thus carve black holes in the soul, making us amoral and apathetic towards everything that should outrage and instead like great black holes we absorb, without batting an eyelid, leading us to accept and inexorably implant these new logics within our social archetypes.
A mad rush to search for a dynamic balance, susceptible to its own fears and consequent hypocrisies.
What has been stated therefore constitutes the concept underlying the themes of the album reviewed, released within a Hardcore fundamentalism with an intellectual flavor that we idealistic speculators like so much.
Because the Affluente are a naked man running through the streets of the city center with a donkey's head, scandalizing young maidens by taking away their virginity and making rude gestures at authoritarian fathers and their pathetic coercions made of opportunistic hedoniccollusionsf***ed.
I want to clarify, how I recognize in the American logic its own propulsive value at a social level, and therefore ready to recognize its great merits, when based on strictly sectarian logics, all among these the American judicial organization …with all its own errors... (like breaking down the door and bursting into your house handcuffing you and arresting you, after WHICH you MIGHT have the right to your damn phone call …in the meantime you are inside!)
Concepts like “Made Self Man + America Dream + The second is the first of the losers” and attached perverse mechanisms philocapitalist and surrogates… well there they are f***ed, as explosive and therefore destabilizing our system.
But the whole thing must lead to an objective examination of the world we live in, a Punk group is anarchic (acracy) and idealistic par excellence, these concepts are utopian, because of the innate/genetic human opportunism.
A band (underground=obscured) through its messages is ready to contest to become indignant so as to sensitize the masses towards the afflictions that distort the social environment, these even, piloted by the System itself.
Because it is not said that society is necessarily at a breaking point, the MEDIA, in turn managed, have the power to control information in all its forms (hence the race for Internet control – see Romani Law) so that a case, even if striking, is thus metabolized and considered “normal” or distracting us from the real problems; shooting at us reruns with no plot with a taste of trash and macabre murders in a terrorist film/thriller style, in the series “think about yourself, and your loved ones because death is around the corner, we'll take care of the rest”.
But ideals akin to anarchy such as DEMOCRACY must be defended even against ourselves, against our cowardly attitude inclined to peaceful living, without even overlooking those “small things to which nobody pays attention, which then blend into something bigger.”
Returning to the album… in short, if you want to bring down the global political economic system and you need a soundtrack, this is the album for you.
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