Perspektive Lyrics - Laibach

(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.]