What sort of image are we promoting here? Why the armor, the formations, the burning and the crashing? Why the skirmishes with each other, other bike clubs, unappreciative street patrons, and law enforcement officers?
Normally these questions wouldn't be very interesting, and normally we wouldn't need a reason. Today, unfortunately, we are living in an extremely fucked world. Our country is at war in the middle east, and in fact has been at war there since we were children, and will be for the foreseeable future, as well as elsewhere. Gulf War II is just a somewhat more violent episode in this terrible teevee movie.
So let us remember that we have it easy. When we scrape our knees we can clean them off and not die of an infection because we've been bombed into a sewer, and when we get dragged to the hospital after breaking a bone we don't get turned away because it's overflowing with people full of shrapnel. We can do these things because we're paying for the guns, and therefore they're usually being pointed at someone else.
The state of the world should cause some examination of our mission and methods. Does the blanket of stupidity that we spread wherever we go trivialize the carpet bombs that our armies are dropping elsewhere? Should we be teaching the children how to play peacefully instead of demonstrating how to make scabs?
I personally believe that in the face of how fucked the world is, we should continue to ride our bikes drunk into the streets and crash into shit. While C.H.U.N.K. 666 was formed to assure our survival in a post-apocalyptic, post-petroleum future, it is not a political entity, and our members have differing opinions about oil, cars, and wars. This being said, we should all be able to agree that this retarded world must be given the retarded response that it deserves.
We invite you to join us, wherever you are. Keep up the sham of normalcy for part of the week if you must. Go to work, pay taxes, and wear pants. But please, for one day a week, or one day a month, or even one day only if that's all you have the courage for, stop pretending. Take to the streets, alone or with friends, drunk or sober, rowdy or peaceful, and do something that will reveal how stupid this whole scam really is.
| Erik Zo snapped this picture at a bike convention somewhere. This guy made his chopper into a tribute to the Blue Angels fighter jet show. Notice the blue and yellow motorcycle fairing, boombox, fins, and his matching blue coveralls and hat. We salute chopper geeks everywhere, no matter what their obsession, but we have to point out that the fighter jets of the United States were unable to stop the bicycles of the Viet Cong. |
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