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Thoughts shared with strangers are a special thing.

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A very few “rules”

Because I can’t follow them. This isn’t me trying to be edgy, either.

I am a chronically disorganized person. My ideas, which I will refer to as my “art” come in flashes. I’ll try my best to capitalize on those things and manifest… something? It might be a blog post, a video, a photo — perhaps a podcast?

I’ll try to give a form to things that strike me as important, that’s my only promise.

I’ll try to be transparent. I’ll try not to withhold thoughts, simply for the sake of how others might react. I won’t retroactively delete. Even my writing here will exist as it came to me. I won’t try to hard to “cultivate” anything.

In art there is a certain amount of editing to arrive at an aesthetically pleasing endpoint. I’ll keep that to a relative minimum.

I am a collection of ideas

I think we can collectively agree that the world is terrifying in a way that is unique to the time in which we live. We have AI, landfills full of electronic junk, synthetic meat and a decent house is like half a million dollars.

Reality has never been harder to define, and people are withdrawing into worlds of their own design (much like this website I am creating.)

Maybe I’m trying to do something about the isolation here? I don’t know. It certainly bothers me, maybe I’m feeling a “call to action.”

I’d like to see people discuss things more. I’d like to participate in said discussions. I don’t even mind if discussions turn into arguments. I think argumentation is fantastic.

I would love to see people normalize debate devolving into argumentation, where at the end, they’re willing to hug it out and find common ground. Young people will need to learn to navigate this, as the landscape is becoming increasingly hostile.

It’s sport, don’t take it personally. I have plenty of friends who think absolutely idiotic things. We’ll probably discuss some of these things here. Nothing lights me up more as an artist than the conversations we aren’t supposed to have.

People used to laugh at whiners until they stopped whining or ran away. We need to get back to that.

MUSINGS
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Contact Me

Have some ideas worth exploring? Go ahead and shoot me some info. I’ll give you a platform if I can. We can record our conversation and post it — whatever. If you’re a psychopath, don’t be deterred. We may have to do it remotely, but if I can make it happen I will.

— Best