DEMOLISH SERIOUSNESS We call on all theorists to pour coke on their word-processors and cease to think between January 3rd 1991 and December 31st 1994. Thought is a virus let loose on the world by a self-perpetuating elite in order to market paraphenalia of the thinker - books, paper, pens, art films, word processors, whisky... Intellectuals are the pet gerbils of the bourgeoisie, fed and watered by them to demonstrate their essential cuddlesomeness. Thought creates the illusion that through activities that are actually waste this civilisation is in touch with a "higher logic" which gives meaning to its activities. To call one person a "thinker" is to deny another the equal gift of cognition; thus the myth of originality becomes an ideological justification for the free market, mass culture and cancer. We call on all cognitional workers to recognise the materialist account of the origins of thinking and admit their parasitic antecedents in the traditions of monasticism. As bodies surplus to production medieval, cognitional workers were immured in the monaseries and employed in the production of the ideology that producting ideology was on a higher plane than producing food which in turn provided the theoretical underpinning for the notion that producing nothing was higher still. Only by breaking free of the bounds of their social function and ceasing thought altogether can cognitional workers hope to contribute to the movement for humanimal liberation. Thought - who needs it? We proclaim the Thought Moratorium -a total assault on rationality. Millions of people have had a wank without ever knowing what a syllogism is. How can we think when some people don't even have a hat? The Thought Moratorium will be launched at The Festival of Stupidity at galleries far and wide (24th-26th Dec.1990). Events already planned include short personal statements of bewilderment by several passers-by. The Festival will be immediately followed by a retrospective exhibition at the I.C.A. entitled "Thought: Was It?" DESTROY THE TRADITIONS OF THE DEAD GENERATIONS _____________________________ (Originally published in Here & Now no.9)