Health Raves ‘Not So Healthy’
“The health rave shifts the orientation of the party away from the wasteful pursuit of pleasure, the nihilistic accumulation of stimuli leading up to the inevitable crush of black, towards the constructive goal of making oneself a better person.” The New Enquiry)
US writer Max Pearl demolishes the health raves for being a ‘self-aware facsimile of a familiar form (“let’s play rave!”), one that excises both the pleasure and the pain of excess.’
