D.O.T.S. Welcome to the Church of the Holy Mist... God has risen again in the form of a spray can. Only a few of the righteous recognize it. The battle is on. Right versus wrong. Good versus evil. The people versus the state. The spray can is the tool of the last revolution; the streets are the battlefields and churches. Streets writers (Disciples of the Spray Can, D.O.T.S.) understand the structure of the city (society) better than anyone. They see the divisions of sex, race and class that the state creates, encourages and enforces. These are enforced by the law (police: pigs) making it so they can legally beat, rape, and kill the poor, minorities, women, homosexuals, and the homeless. They use the law to strip all of our dignity from us. The middle class is a lie, a front to make the working class believe that they are better off than that "crack head bum" they pass every day without a second thought. The "middle class" has a roof over its head and food on its table, but still is a drone for the state. Can the middle class quit their jobs tomorrow and still pay off the loans? HELL NO. They work, work, work - never making enough and making their dreams come true. They are just hoping to get something better (a raise). The lie of the middle class was created by the devil (the state) to separate the people. The separation creates a hatred within the working class. The "middle class" believe it is better off than the poor because it has more. This belief creates hatred for those who have less (poor). It also creates envy of those who have more (the rich). In return this creates greed, hatred and ignorance all around to poor to rich to middle to rich to poor to rich to middle and back around - a sick disgusting cycle of death and destruction, rape and confusion all adding up to bullshit equaling capitalism. Hate that boils up from the depths of hell is radiated by the spray can. In the fumes of the spray can I have seen all races, sexes, classes working together for the same goals. The goals are Yourself, FAME, Style. Yourself: understanding yourself, ego, creating yourself in a new image. FAME: notorious, willing to risk it all (your freedom), being active. Style: creating style, understanding forms, redesigning the cities. These are the three aspects of graffiti. A soul is created when God (a spray can) is involved at all times. We must start writing for the masses; we must start to ask ourselves: Am I just writing for myself or for others enjoyment also? But we should always force ourselves onto the public no matter what. As graffiti artists we must force ourselves to think bigger, not in the size of the piece, but in the idea behind it. We call ourselves writers, but what are we writing? The same damn word over and over again. We must start writing about what we see is being done on the street. We see it all. When normal people are at home asleep, we are out there "vandalizing" their FUKN property. We must use all the tools that are available to us: posters, stickers, images and stencils. You may be thinking, "Well, that doesn't seem all that hard core." But if you get caught for any or all of this, you are still going to be arrested and thrown into jail. We must all ask ourselves "Why the fuck am I doing this?" Yes, we live in a capitalist society and because of this, we are forced to sell our talent, ourselves. But, remember, it doesn't have to be that way. We don't have to pay our landlord and work some lame-ass job just to get by. It's just the system that is in place now that makes us do that. Just sit down and think for a moment. If everyone in the world was a graffiti artist, the value of property that is preached to us would be destroyed. A building would be used however it wanted to be. On the outside wall that faces the public it would be used in the way the public wanted it to be used. Public space would be just that. The public space would be used for expression that would last as long as the public wanted it. It would not be blasted over but would be burned over with what a new individual thought looked better. Don't believe that I think that this graffiti world would be some perfect society because writers are the biggest assholes around, self included. But we must start to crush our egos down without losing our self-respect and try to understand people around us and not just blow them off as toys. We need to think a little before we react in destructive behavior (style wars). If we feel in mind, body and spirit it is justified to flip the muthr fukr and start a war, then go for it. There are a whole lot of people out there that just take from the spray can and never give something back to it. God has risen again in the form of a spray can. Only a few of the righteous recognize it. The battle is on. Right versus wrong. Good versus evil. The people versus the state. The spray can is the tool of the last revolution; the streets are the battlefields and churches. Writers, we must unite, get organized, rise up and fight to beat down the wicked and take our righteous place as leaders (elders) of the universe. go