Arden G. Showers (they/them)

DESIGNER. WRITER. MAKER. ACTOR. Timetraveling purveyor of oddities. Backwoods feral queerwitch. Fiction as ritual medicine #trans #nonbinary 🧬🧞‍♀️🧞🧞‍♂️#adhd

[Arden G. Showers (they/them) @gaelshowers]

God is #nonbinary .

[Arden G. Showers (they/them) @gaelshowers]

@Elenirivera_ Well, I had boomer generational psycology on the mind so I did solipsism when I meant nepotism but I guess that’s also accurate, lol. The greed driven star system of celebrity culture as “box office fuel” certainly has never helped.

[Arden G. Showers (they/them) @gaelshowers]

@Elenirivera_ It kind of 🤯 that the ent industry has existed so long in this doublethink culture of a blatant, standard “it’s all who u know” economy while simultaneous completely ignoring the deep deep levels of layered privilege & solipsism thats always glued that all together.

[Arden G. Showers (they/them) @gaelshowers]

@tbhattacharya Omfg. Ive found tho, one of the few things the cult of profit culture is good for = u can dispel a lot of the social/interpersonal/parental blow back towards sex related content by just calmly being like, “yes, but 🤷🏻💰💵 Sound investment”. 🙌 Capitalism > Puritanism

[Arden G. Showers (they/them) @gaelshowers]

@blinkist Idk, seems like he spends all of his time paying media companies to NEVER shut up abt him for absolutely no reason when there is nothing to say or report on & everyone is ready to bore their own eyes out just to get thru a day w/o seeing his name/face…?

[Arden G. Showers (they/them) @gaelshowers]

Honestly, the Boomer Gen is out here feeling personally persecuted & victimized by the “labor” & “change” of they/them pronouns SOMETIMES being asked of them bef they die… & we don’t even know if Earth is gonna be uninhabitable before we hit retirement.

Just.
What…?

[Arden G. Showers (they/them) @gaelshowers]

@thearkansasleft These 2 things shld NEVER be tied together in the same breath more or less governing. 1 is basic common sense & ethics. The other is economics. The fact its not clear to ppl who say or engage w this that the social is blatant blackmmail/manipulation for economy via emotion is 🤯

[Arden G. Showers (they/them) @gaelshowers]

@thearkansasleft As a trans person it both infuriates me re: the individuals conscious, unethical narcissism, & moreso the party system (on “both sides”) abusing, exploiting, & brutalizing my ppl for their own profit & power & unsustainable social cannibalism/pathology.

[Arden G. Showers (they/them) @gaelshowers]

EXCEPT (spoiler) we already HAVE THE REMEDY.

We need to start looking at collective, global, human experience & culture as an ACTUAL (not theoretical) body with an autoimmune disease. And APPLYING SOCIAL SCIENCES.

Yes, it’s an emergency. But idk let’s only use anthro for ads.

[Arden G. Showers (they/them) @gaelshowers]

I know it’s a shocker—bc we’ve been gaslit & distracted for centuries—but human cultures are actually SUPPOSED to be independently functional, SUSTAINABLE, & self-sustaining (while accounting for chaos / variability). And that’s natural.

(We’re sick, baby.)

[Arden G. Showers (they/them) @gaelshowers]

But the mechanics of impact are easily bypassed & misunderstood. For the exact same reason that happens in abusive relationships. The toxicity is self preserving & a constant threat.

Which is a problem for everyone understanding the mechanics = how & why u remedy something.

[Arden G. Showers (they/them) @gaelshowers]

But “sit down, look pretty, be profitable, do & say what u r told, ignore the impact, get fame & $”

IME These rules apply in Hollywood (& less so just upper class standing) regardless of context, even when the house is on fire UNLESS u find a loophole re: “be profitable.”

[Arden G. Showers (they/them) @gaelshowers]

The suppression & demonization of emotion is inherently incredibly misogynistic & xenophobic. It’s also killing up all slowly. (Us ALL.)

[Arden G. Showers (they/them) @gaelshowers]

Sidebar— it’s also PART of the EMPIRICAL function of art. (And comedy. Theatre, storytelling in general…)

[Arden G. Showers (they/them) @gaelshowers]

Violence is bad. It’s also not just physical. And we live in a culture of violence directed at anything divergent, threatening, or exploitable to a very specific programming.

[Arden G. Showers (they/them) @gaelshowers]

Your peer/media pressure to “pick a team” w ChrisRock / WillSmith in such a clearly ethically ambiguous & layered micro-drama, is a clear indicator of how easily your vote will be controlled in the next election.

If it was easy to “pick” w/o a personal stake, take heed.