The Blog
I thought this might be a nice place to share pieces of my life that aren't always artworks or polished writings. The fact is, after 20 years of navigating the new world wherein people primarily connect through screens and realizing the extent to which I definitively hate it, I do crave the ability to share certain things with others whilst also living in relative isolation.
Social media was supposed to be the answer for that, but For me, the truly dreadful thing about it is having to log-on to an algorithmic monster where my presence and activity becomes a commodity, my privacy means nothing, and where people have become accustomed to portraying themselves as a persona and not a person as to accumulate as much dopamine as possible through a vapid form of validation. It's weird, man. ANd if you ask me (you didn't), It is the ruin of our society above most other things, because our brains aren't coded to cope with information in the ways it is fed to us, or to feel the pressures and sorrows caused by other people's lives constantly shoved into our faces.
The good news is that no one is obligated to participate in it - a fact that frequently goes forgotten. Welcome to my loophole. You aren't obligated to be here, either, but thank you for coming. I can't guarantee an injection of dopamine, but I can guarantee unapologetic authenticity.