Robin Mo

media philosopher.
exploring identity.
seasonally an artist.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

the most important modern philosophical problem is the lossy compression of language through the architecture of media affecting the unconscious formation of self.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

@TheaEuryphaessa Hey Thea! I made this crazy ass song after one of your tweets last year. It was about, like, the difference of following your heart vs. gut and brain. And this was like all out heart. I decided to try it. And uh, I think you'll fcking hate it but maybe it is fun for you to hear:)

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

@SVG__Collection Really been getting deeper into the genius of Fela Kuti.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

@ifiwerearoy nah. there's enough good music already and we haven't even heard 10% of it.

[Tom Goodwin @tomfgoodwin]

The entire pitch for AI in Advertising/Marketing/Sales is this.... and it makes me angry.

We're going to automate everything.
And we'll send out MILLIONS of ads/content/emails
And it will be fast, and cheap.
And the fact it's almost substandard
Doesn't matter.

Because it's fast AND cheap.

It is so spectacularly stupid
And damaging
And depressing.
And as a human being, it's making everything so very much worse.

Because now everything we see is crap.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

All of my profile is but one echo, one shadow, one disembodied body of an incommensurable depth where there are scarcely any collages of words to compend.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

our ideal goal is to ground every assertion on a bedrock of truth;

to habituate in a mode of scepticism requires an eternal vigilance of the rodents and pests who are sure to roguely warp the fullness of our crop. it is nature, only we do it to ourselves via falsities and bias.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

it is a bias of a faculty; left-hemispheric rationality, which we continually lean on to feel like the world is held together.

thus, we have "the wisdom of insecurity". there is more than meets the dissecting eye. a whole universe of wonder and terror which is sure to crush egos

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

we use absolutist statements to sound more confident and convincing but everything is ambiguous. everything is relative. and there are a million factors outside of awareness.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

we knit together narratives fairly quickly about the causes to the effects. but nothing is so simply linear.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

Extra energy is used unconstructively to worry, to doubt, to question, to snap one's fingers...

One must find a manual mechanism or method by which the pulsating energy is re-steered to productive or spiritually ascending means—or it may as well turn on itself.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

Guarded by a wet blanket of nerves:

- fear of being seen
- fear of being seen as a douche
- fear of being harshly criticized
- fear of being driven by the pleasures of vanity
- fear of accidentally saying something untrue

The nervous system twists the control panel of ego.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

and 99% of art did not need to be made.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

the greatest art stems from necessity.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

This moral headache of questioning the fallout of technological progress was shared by Emerson back then. A kind of caring about the race of humanity, or of one's country, to refine to a greater contour of character. Idealism.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

"What have these arts done for the character, for the worth of mankind? Are men better? ‘T is sometimes questioned whether morals have not declined as the arts have ascended." - Emerson, 1870

You can also replace "arts" with "technology" here.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

He continues later in the same paragraph, quote:

‘T is too plain that with the material power the moral progress has not kept pace. It appears that we have not made a judicious investment.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

@chronowerks fabulous.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

@TheaEuryphaessa My intuition appointed me to your profile after a daydream. This provides an insight to my work. Thank you for sharing.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

We are intelligent souls imprisoned in a restless system, muscularly habituated weekly to push for pleasant shocks of electronic art.

[Robin Mo @rawbinmo]

Archaically, humility derives from the Latin humilitas ("lowness, small stature, insignificance") and humus ("earth"), signifying a literal "groundedness" or being "on the ground".