Not really. Not in the in sense of where the music came from. I'd agree on an enjoyment level it taps into something similar. But the roots of the genre as far as I am aware owe nothing to tribal music.
Good documentary on the origins of house and techno from 70s disco, to 4 to the floor disco and the coming of the 808, how this moved to house in chicago and some sci fi nerds with a love for kraftwerk in detroit started techno. Then how the UK got involved and these DJs from the US, used to playing to 50-80 people in tiny underground, often gay clubs would come to the UK and play to 10,000 in massive outdoor / warehouse events and rave was born
> They're sort of our equivalent of Antifa in that they are a significant organising presence in lefty street protests
Are you trying to give a wrong opinion of SWP. No "ultra violent, red army faction types" are joining the SWP.
Also your use of "ultra violent" / "red army" surely is used to incorrectly ascertain that there are parts of the left that are much more violent than they actually are.
> They're sort of our equivalent of Antifa in that they are a significant organising presence in lefty street protests
I can see the point you are trying to make being familiar with both, but for those who are not, this analogy is just wrong and confusing to those who do not know SWP and will think you are saying SWP have no qualms about using violence. That is wrong
> All the locals on Bali are richer and better educated than they otherwise would be.
Not necessarily. In the early days, perhaps, when businesses were run by locals and the type of tourist who would go, would use local services.
Now as a place develops, outside money / developers / owners move in, providing higher quality accommodation, fine dining and the once local business owners are employed as cleaners for a pittance.
It is a pattern repeated since the 60s and 70s with the hippy trail when large amounts of people started to visit these places. Once pristine paradise locations are now over developed concrete monstrosities catering to the higher end - out pricing the travellers who first went to the place and the profits all exported to other places
> As mind blowing as you think that was, IMHO its nothing like the experience of candy-flipping...(MDMA+LSD)
I disagree there. There isn't much that compares to a deep k-hole. Perhaps a DMT breakthrough experience. But LSD and MDMA doesn't compare*
* Assuming "normal" LSD dosage, if you are talking about eating a strip of tabs (1000ug) ok, then all bets are off, but at that level the MDMA isn't going to be able to do much
You are confusing addiction with use. And of course, it is drug dependant. No one has their mind opened by a weekend of crack use. No one comes away the same person after a weekend of psychedelic use
Often used to hear the same accusations when adsense was a bigger thing. Accounts with expected big payouts would always get banned a few days before payout. They would accept all traffic you send them for the month, then just before paying out, banned.
Perhaps a coincidence sure, but when accusations keep getting made about underhanded tactics, maybe there is somethig there