A Guide to The Cultural Futurist - My Best Work in One Place
A Retrospective and Renewal
What’s up, America? I’m back. Let’s start this off by extending a welcome to all my new subscribers. I’m Rachel Haywire, and you’re reading The Cultural Futurist. This is a publication that focuses on visions of the future from a cultural lens and insights for the culture from a futurist lens. Nothing is taboo here, and everything is possible.
Many people have compiled their best writing into one place, so I’ve decided to do the same while throwing in my salons and book clubs. I want new subscribers to see what my community is about and remind my OG subscribers of our history together.
Best Introduction to My Community
Cultural Futurist Salon I - Total Renaissance - This was the first salon I produced and hosted, crafting the groundwork for The Cultural Futurist to evolve into a living community. You can see the lineup and descriptions of the acts for a preview of what my events are like here.
Official! Event Program, Lineup, and Schedule for Total Renaissance Salon
A renaissance can be a resurrection, revival, and revolution all at once. It begins at the vanguard — where philosophers, writers, performers, and artists with a shared understanding come together to set the foundation for a new era and parallel establishment.
My Most Popular Writing
My Girls in the Florida Lockdown Facility - This is the most personal piece of writing I’ve shared here and my most popular to date. I wasn’t expecting something so emotional to hit with my niche audience, yet it spread far and wide.
My Girls in the Florida Lockdown Facility
At the age of 15, I was locked up in a behavior rehabilitation center that was funded by the state of Florida. It was far worse than you’d think. The place was so bad that it was shut down by the state of Florida itself.
Offline is the New Online - This is the article that put me on the map. I proposed that due to the decentralization of the web and reversion to backchannels during a period of monotony—the future for the true creatives and outsiders would take place completely offline.
Why Can’t We Be Friends? - As if on cue, the article I wrote about being lonely and having a hard time making friends connected me to a bunch of new people. In retrospect, is this any surprise?
Why Can’t We Be Friends?
Is there a loneliness epidemic? Definitely. Did the lockdowns make everything worse? Absolutely. The people who orchestrated them need to be taken to trial, which is widespread knowledge. Yet there’s a misconception about how the loneliness epidemic exclusively afflicts men, primarily within the confines of dating.
Also Important
The Bold and the Brave - I created a political strategy guide for elevating bold people who speak the truth into a higher social order while disposing of the lying managerial class.
The Bold and the Brave
The age of deception is over. The pretty little lies that once brought us social harmony at the cost of truth are dying, swiftly being tossed into the abyss of Commercialized Buddhism at the Bay Area’s not-so-exquisite-corpse dinner parties.
The Nietzschean Book Club - This was the first time I hosted a book club here, choosing Nietzsche as our starting philosopher. We began with The Birth of Tragedy, as everything does.
Get ready for the Nietzschean Book Club at The Cultural Futurist
I’m going to begin hosting book clubs here at The Cultural Futurist, and I’ve decided the first book for us to discuss is The Birth of Tragedy by no other than my spiritual grandfather Friedrich Nietzsche.
Welcome back!
Might be a good idea to make this a page.