ATTACK ALL THE WOKE! The rampant assault carries such a frequency the signal noise reaches you even if you can’t hear it at first. The rightwing masters of simplicity and repetition are at it, full on. Never give up, no quit. The destroyers of nuance, discussion, conversation, are set on KILL KILL KILL!!!
But really, I think they’re just sore because saying “stay woke” sounds so cool.
So to you all out there I say, stay woke, yo.
Is that I gave too much consideration to what is said rather than how often something is repeated. My approach to life has been one that operated with the incorrect assumption that what is said is the most important thing to care about. But I’ve recently come to realize, probably because of social media, that anything can be said, what really matters is how much it’s said.
Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. That’s how shit gets done.
Frequency over novelty.
The new thing gets forgotten while what’s repeated becomes dogma.
I find myself seeking out spaces where there isn’t any kind of judgment present. To fill the need for no recognition whatsoever. The desire to just be without comment or buttonary reaction. No count, nothing trending, nothing following, no curation or algorithm, not a feedback loop at all. I just want to be for a moment, which should be enough. But will it be, if I can find it? What do you think? Do you like it?
I just finished Chuck Klosterman’s The Nineties. A great read in very typical Klosterman fashion. And as a product of those Nineties he’s talking about, I enjoyed going back through them with over two decades of hindsight and firmly being able to put those years to rest. They’ve been over for awhile, but now they strangely feel finished.
One thing I do miss from the nineties was the frequency of everything. Movies, music, books, TV shows, and whatever else, there was just less of them. So you had to replay what you liked over and over again. You couldn’t just ping to something else that was newer because there was nothing else, even if your mission was to find and consume things very much out of the mainstream.
The frequency of the nineties increased your understanding. It made the music mean more, sound louder, and speak to deeper areas of your soul.
Frequency, in general, can offer a perspective only grasped through repetition and the passage of time. There are no cheat codes for watching Pulp Fiction 20+ times or listening to Nirvana’s Nevermind every single day for years and years.
This is, basically, the third version of the talk. The first idea took more of an unveiling approach. The second, more combative, where the core idea was of images fighting back. The final version I presented, in my mind, is a very middle-of-the-road approach. The showing of my graphic design work while I, the maker, tell you, the viewer, the basic brief behind the images and the context they exist within. These images don’t simply emerge out of thin air. There’s a reason for everything — what I’m trying to say, why I’m saying it, and to whom I’m saying it to, as well as, where the image is meant to end up and the action I want a particular audience to take.
Important coverage from The New York Times:
So much of the imagery that people see about abortion comes from abortion opponents who have spent decades spreading misleading fetal imagery to further their cause… It’s important to us to counter medical misinformation related to early pregnancy because about 80 percent of abortions in the United States occur at nine weeks or earlier.
At the bar, around midnight, after a long day of travel, drinks, and a team dinner, I was presented with this question: “why do you live in Omaha?”
To which, the only reply I could muster was, “I don’t really know.”
I was caught off guard for sure. I have a stock answer for such questions. But still, in that moment, I didn’t really believe it. So I just threw up my hands and took another drink.
