MessyRealZines
Hi, I'm Monty. I spent 19 years cycling through belief systems - from Seventh-day Adventism to anarchism to alien-believing Desteni. Now I manage a hotel in Margaret River, study psychology, and write about how exceptionalism patterns operate across ideologies.
MessyRealZines publishes analysis that's rigorous without being academic, practical without being prescriptive. I curate my own work and occasionally pieces from others.
Want to submit something for consideration? monty.sforcina@proton.me
Why You Like That Song You Hate
(And What It Teaches You About Everything Else)
What happens when you're forced to hear "Love Game" by Lady Gaga 1,000 times in a Brisbane café? Your brain rewires itself. You start humming along. The song you hated becomes familiar, then comfortable, then... liked.
This 80-page zine traces that transformation through the Identity Strata framework - showing how influence operates at six simultaneous layers: physical, biological, psychological, social, ideological, and meta-awareness.
It's about pop music. But it's also about religion, politics, conspiracy theories, consumer culture, and every other system that captures human attention. Same mechanism. Different content.