Agree with all of that *but* - it's not just the cities that need revitalization. The countryside is a withered husk of ghost towns, drug abuse, petty crime and suicide. The brain cannot be healthy when the body is sick, and the body has been poisoned and hollowed out by big brain ideas from people who only think about cities. So don't be that person. This downward spiral feedback loop of dysfunctional cities ignoring the needs of rural areas -> collapse of rural areas driving further dysfunction in cities -> repeat ad nauseam is how we got here.
This is a lively hope pill. How to make this hope reality? Will to power? Crush all opposition? Make it so? So many questions about how to give up the blackpill.
Join The Cultural Futurist and you can attend my salons. There's a discount in this post. You'll love them. Full of hope, wild optimism, and extreme creativity.
Red pill- you wake up to the matrix but are still contributing to it
Black pill- you take the red pill and are disabled by fear and negativity- give up
White pill- take the red pill and are hopeful and are contributing to dismantling the matrix
We are information outlaws in the 2020s information wars of the digital age.
The deep state is suppressing some ideas out of pop culture and into the dark while propagating other ideas into the spot light essentially creating an artificial pop cultural zeitgeist, or in other words the matrix.
We need to get the forbidden knowledge held by the elites and return it to the people!
I like many of these ideas. And I like your manifesto because it's sane and short. Most are unhinged, narcissistic rants and are more about the tortured soul of its writer than anything else. A manifesto should be optimistic, and this one fits the bill.
Someone beat me to the punch on the art deco observation, though I will confess here to not really knowing what art deco means. I'm slightly wary of the transhumanist mood of the art, but at the same time I do like all the silver and the kind of Jetsons vibe it has going for it. In short, I have no fucking clue what I'm talking about.
Hi Rachel - I'm only seeing your reply now. Yes, I teach AT and would gladly give you a free Zoom lesson sometime. Please reach out at joseph@soulforcearts.com if you're interested!
The battleground of the future is infinity. As a species, we have no fucking idea how to deal with it. We come up with metaphors to make things seem like we can control them. But humans are overloaded with more information than we can process. We look for shortcuts all around us. The shortcuts are comforting and give us a false sense of control. But control in the big sense is impossible. We are trying to make sense of complexity by adding more complexity. Maybe there is a Copernicus like moment when we realize that maybe we are centering our belief systems on the wrong things. I have no idea where the new focus should be, but I know that rehashing the past is not the way to the future. I don't if this manifesto is the right path, but at least it is asking much better questions and that in of itself is a great thing. All I can say is keep going and have some coffee on me.
Agree with all of that *but* - it's not just the cities that need revitalization. The countryside is a withered husk of ghost towns, drug abuse, petty crime and suicide. The brain cannot be healthy when the body is sick, and the body has been poisoned and hollowed out by big brain ideas from people who only think about cities. So don't be that person. This downward spiral feedback loop of dysfunctional cities ignoring the needs of rural areas -> collapse of rural areas driving further dysfunction in cities -> repeat ad nauseam is how we got here.
I will take this advice to heart and appreciate it.
Love the Art Deco style.
Liked just because it is a manifesto
Sure.
Can't be the only one writing manifestos here.
This is a lively hope pill. How to make this hope reality? Will to power? Crush all opposition? Make it so? So many questions about how to give up the blackpill.
Let’s start here.
Starting is a good start. I recently wrote a black pill manifesto. Perhaps you can hope pill me.
https://islandofignorance.substack.com/p/manifesto-for-the-underground
I'm looking forward to the journey to the journey towards hope...
Join The Cultural Futurist and you can attend my salons. There's a discount in this post. You'll love them. Full of hope, wild optimism, and extreme creativity.
Don’t give up!
Snort the white pill!
Blue pill- you are asleep in the matrix
Red pill- you wake up to the matrix but are still contributing to it
Black pill- you take the red pill and are disabled by fear and negativity- give up
White pill- take the red pill and are hopeful and are contributing to dismantling the matrix
We are information outlaws in the 2020s information wars of the digital age.
The deep state is suppressing some ideas out of pop culture and into the dark while propagating other ideas into the spot light essentially creating an artificial pop cultural zeitgeist, or in other words the matrix.
We need to get the forbidden knowledge held by the elites and return it to the people!
We need you!
Good work Rachel!
I like many of these ideas. And I like your manifesto because it's sane and short. Most are unhinged, narcissistic rants and are more about the tortured soul of its writer than anything else. A manifesto should be optimistic, and this one fits the bill.
Someone beat me to the punch on the art deco observation, though I will confess here to not really knowing what art deco means. I'm slightly wary of the transhumanist mood of the art, but at the same time I do like all the silver and the kind of Jetsons vibe it has going for it. In short, I have no fucking clue what I'm talking about.
I'll join so long as I get to sit in party headquarters and tell everyone else what to do.
Not a chance, but if you prove yourself you'll be able to sit in the outer room.
From Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead:
[DEAN] “Do you mean to tell me that you’re thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?
[ROARK] “Yes.”
[DEAN] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”
[ROARK] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
Have you subscribed to the "Faster, Please!" Substack?
https://substack.com/@fasterplease
Oh, and this, if you haven't seen it. https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/
The first team that puts together a vision of the future and a plan to get there wins.
LFG!
Brilliant.
I'm really looking forward to seeing more! Glad to have joined.
Thank you. Glad to have you! Have always enjoyed your posts and comments.
Hell, yeah Rachel! I consider myself already a part of this movement. Looking forward to hearing more from you about your vision!
Welcome and thank you! I happened to see Alexander Technique in your profile. Do you teach it? Had one session and have been craving to learn more.
Hi Rachel - I'm only seeing your reply now. Yes, I teach AT and would gladly give you a free Zoom lesson sometime. Please reach out at joseph@soulforcearts.com if you're interested!
Back to the Futurism... you do realize that it fizzled pretty badly
when they tried it before?
The battleground of the future is infinity. As a species, we have no fucking idea how to deal with it. We come up with metaphors to make things seem like we can control them. But humans are overloaded with more information than we can process. We look for shortcuts all around us. The shortcuts are comforting and give us a false sense of control. But control in the big sense is impossible. We are trying to make sense of complexity by adding more complexity. Maybe there is a Copernicus like moment when we realize that maybe we are centering our belief systems on the wrong things. I have no idea where the new focus should be, but I know that rehashing the past is not the way to the future. I don't if this manifesto is the right path, but at least it is asking much better questions and that in of itself is a great thing. All I can say is keep going and have some coffee on me.
You don't have to agree with these 2, but I think you'll like them.
https://www.youtube.com/@SimoneandMalcolm/videos
Lol. I remember my first Ayn Rand book. . .
I read Anthem when I was 12, but go off.