Invitation to TRiBE ------------------- by Prime Evil Some say I have no conscience How false they are even to themselves I am the only conscience which has ever existed As wine retains the perfume of its cask I retain the essence of my most ancient genesis and that is the seed of conscience That is what makes me holy I am God because I am the only one who really knows his heredity! What is it like to be a TRiBELiNG How does one get into TRiBE Why does TRiBE exist Either one or all of these uncertainties may have been thrown around in your mind at one time or another A TRiBELiNGJis a distinctive individual quite dissimilar from any other in the scene We are elite Being in TRiBE means neither being a demagogue of the masses nor scorning the scene completely We compete not to strive for ranking ( for it would be self-effacing to compare ourselves to the commonplace artist ) but to demonstrate to others our superior nature TRiBE is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship but a collective sharing one common factor artistic excellence in the face of mundane mediocrity We are the aphex of eliteness Nobility in the purest form We are the genus of persons that never have to deprecate themselves by doing such mundane things as completing applications or nfo forms or any other type of questionnaire We are the type of people who are always at the top of the teleconference invite list We are the type of people who get into iCE or ACiD without asking or are never denied operator status on irc channels We are elite One does not ask how to become a TRiBELiNG One hopes that someday that the elite will see fit to consider him or her more than a speck of paint on the panorama of the art scene The path to TRiBELDOM is a unsympathetic struggle to ascend above the ranks of second rate artist who must be crushed under the iron heel of ambition like so many talent less maggots One prerequisite to receiving a coveted invite from Shihear Kallizad is to understand that TRiBE is above and beyond anything iCE or ACiD is It is true there are some fragments of TRiBAL quality in these two groups but one can not begin to enumerate the multitudinous differences between the enlightened rabble and the truly superior We are elite Human nature is to classify and to designate labels TRiBE is merely a system of dividing humans from animals TRiBE is a device to separate the wheat from the chaff cream and the whey gifted from the mundane TRiBE is the epitome of prominence TRiBE is the definition of art TRiBE is the higher state all things strive (almost invariably in vain) to achieve We are the old We are the new We are the elite You have been solicited to associate yourself with a class of specialists and artists that have aspired above the petty scene and realized a dawning apogee of artistry The opportunity to associate oneUs self with TRiBE is an honour that only few of the elite receive Even fewer turn down a chance to join the aristocracy of TRiBELDOM This is your occasion Do you go onward and join TRiBE and become one of the select or do you reprobate our approach and mire back into your primeval posture to never again have the chance to ascend into the ranks of the truly elite You have 24 hours to sever your erstwhile affiliations and allegiances with the lower class untouchables and join our exalted ranks of authorities from each discipline of creation in the scene We Are Elite Show your tribal roots