I’ve been fascinated with consciousness since I can remember
I’ve been trying to capture it in my work for years.
Mentographs ; My first larger collection
Successfully made this vision come to life
Nothing will happen. The average American is weak and pathetic. The elites have already won.
Everyone will sit back, take it in the ass without lubrication, complain about it online for 48 hours, then wake up Monday morning and clock right back into work.
"The Lord loves all people, but He loves those who seek Him even more. To his chosen ones the Lord gives such great grace that for love they forsake the whole earth, the whole world, & their souls burn with desire that all people might be saved & see the glory of the Lord." - St Silouan the Athonite
The only person who should be able to offend you, is you. Because you’re the only one who really knows you. Everyone else is shouting at a character they made up in their head with 99% filled in with projections from their own life.
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
God, I love Substack. The writers are writing. The thinkers are thinking. The yearners are yearning. The teachers are teaching! A whole lot of intellectual hope in an era that threatens critical thought.
@HKBelvedere I was listening to one guy talk about what’s in the files and I literally had to turn that shit off I was so fucking disgusted and I’ve watched some true crime that shit is another level of depravity and satanic
i don't know who needs to hear this but your ability to create the reality that you want is directly determined by your willingness to experience its opposite.
- saving money will have you feeling broke while it's actually making you rich.
- setting boundaries will have you feeling alone while you're creating new healthy relationships in your life.
- digging up your trauma will have you feeling broken while it's actually healing you.
- working out has you feeling weak while it's really making you strong.
- learning something new makes you feel dumb while it's making you more intelligent.
your ability to attain the thing that you want is directly correlated with how willing you are to experience its opposite. you have to be ok with being uncomfortable to truly achieve success!