To make something of high quality you have to make something of low quality before that.
To make something of high quality you have to make something of low quality before that.
It is always better to try to see all possible sides and not to allow oneself to concentrate on one, even if emotionally it seems more correct… Our brains are full of delusions and by nature a master of making up rationalizations for everything – even for what it doesn’t understand, what it doesn’t see.
As an example, evil, greed… what we used to see as bad, has different sides, – soil, food, slaves of evil – passive, lazy people… Evil as if it doesn’t even crawl in often and just tests the people, a little bit, here a small nasty thing, there – the common man eats it, evil grows. And what evil is there, if they themselves agree?..
In the end, death makes us all the same.
At this point in time, under the given conventions of our development, death is a good thing.
I realize we are still limited as a species, as minds, and in spite of having the capacity for higher intelligence, we are still primitive, and most of us are fools and bastards. It would be impossible to endure the routine of it all indefinitely…. death is necessary. Maybe like so many other things? But not everything. The universe strives for perfection but many errors occur. Like, why do we need wisdom teeth? Rudiments happen…
I’m ready to die at any moment so I’m not afraid of losing anything.
The realization of mortality makes life better. Life is like a video game, no matter what bad things happen, I am ready to play, and ready to turn it off in a very extreme case, that’s easy, in any case it has an end. Realizing the finality of my existence helps me appreciate time.
It’s all a flux, an endless filtering…
Spiral of progression
Black and white
Something and nothing
Prosperity and crisis
It’s all necessary, it’s all natural… spiraling through itself, thus the eternal motion of the engine of life is realized.
An inner screwing backwards… recoil… a sudden push like aversion forward… some bounce back. Then again…
It’s a circular movement, both sides are essential there, dark and bright, chaos and order; but actually progressing itself forward and higher.
It’s not the place that beautifies the man, it’s the man who beautifies the place.
The same can be said of destiny.
It’s not destiny that beautifies a man or a fortune, it’s the person who beautifies the destiny.
If a person is nice, deep mind, handsome and interesting, truly open and humanistic, then even poverty, even a hard struggle is good for the image of that person – it makes the reflection charming.
The progress is not only in comfort but also suffering and in its overcoming… sometimes evolution is a response to worsening conditions.
Have you ever noticed that in images the hero is beautiful and noble, even though he suffers and is poor and struggles, he does not become less beautiful, but even becomes more lovely?
The world is a very complex, messy and spontaneous place.
We’re human beings, and in our society and our systems of living, it’s even more complicated.
There’s randomness everywhere. Very, very much depends on luck… the wilder we are, the more our system and distribution depends on chance.
But this comes from an observer perspective only. How about a wider view?
To see not magic powerful evil, but confused, twisted, complex systems. Evil is pure human, a cheeky ignorance… that primarily the weakness of an element of a complex, entangled system, not something special. In general, the human world in general is very complex and complicated – it is a real challenge for us as a species to realize and process it all
An attractive inquiry is how perceptible and resynthesizable is the awareness of the complexity of our systems for entities wider than the system – that is, roughly speaking, if we see our world as complex, how could it be seen by say a god or a hyperhuman, an Übermensch…? Such thought experiments help to give some perspective and scales to the recognized
Or is complexity complicated in any case? Definitely not – because if something seems extremely complex to a child, say, the Internet or television, it doesn’t seem so to an educated adult. It depends on the level and breadth of awareness of the phenomenon, representation of it.
However, in any case – keep your mind clear. If the world is complex, systems are complicated, if you know it all and understand the flaws of the elements of entanglement, the immaturity of individual components, if you see and understand it all, you are calm in any case. Just let it be, let it test itself.
In the age of ai and generative tech, creating stylistic craft art has become meaningless – meaning – that is, meaningfulness, the necessity of the common purpose.
Art as development, as play, is one thing: teaching, therapeutic…
The other is the art of the genuine, cognitive plan, when as a researcher of feelings and spectra of the mind you study the paths of the new, the perspective, and synthesize the beautiful… such activity, although it includes particles of the previously (education, therapeutic) mentioned, in the light of the new era, transforms and mutates into something even more narrowly specialized.
In the fields of pure art one should work more deeply, more ideologically, more sensually. That is, to experiment, to work with feeling and ideas… conceptually.
All these “I’ll draw in the style of…”, for example in the style of classical or abstractionism, or make jazz…. – that’s fine if you’re a kid in school or a bored post-traumatic adult. But if you are a real artist, a creator, especially a skilled, experienced, an advanced sensory machine of reflection and synthesis, you can waste time if you procrastinate with craft.
Craft, all routine, tends to be simplified, digested by automation. It’s a middle-management niche and below. . . All labor has a property to automation, and the simpler the labor, the sooner it is automated.
But how can you automate sports, like soccer, or art, for example? it’s human, too human. Routine, patter, background, craft is automated. The genius of the human shines beyond mundane goals.
For basic consumption, background listening, arrangement of cafe walls and all sorts of things – generators generate patterns. In short that is background.
But the machine can’t feel, can’t understand the depth of the human being. Tomorrow’s real creators need to feel the cutting edge of the new, pure feeling and experimentation. To take off this bounds of dry stylistics and bread-and-butter. The brains of the best people will still be the clear best beacon and light for other people’s brains – that is, proximity.
The cult of youth is everywhere today, I don’t accept it.
Young people are mostly inexperienced, undeveloped, some are clearly stupid.
Maybe this is reflexive of trends in capitalism, economics and society? “Pour energy recklessly! who cares about the consequences and perspective, pocket the money while it’s lying around”.
Thirty / forty+ is the ideal age in which the true essence of a person already has time to manifest itself… After all, the young – they are often more universal-basic to see them more accurately.
Gain experience, knowledge, because this is the most important thing in a person – the brain.
Young people are infantile, unripe fruit.
Personally, inside (and maybe socially, outside too) it is always better to distill the negativity abstractly, disperse it – because it tends to concentrate into a point, thus intensifying.
And the main thing here, causing harm to you first of all, not to the object of hatred…In any situation, keep calm reasoning. How to disperse? Look more broadly at the situation, for example.
In dialectically opposite argumentation, one can assert that negativity and hatred ought to help to strengthen the power of response to evil…Sounds almost logically correct, but this tends to be an illusion.
The power that negativity gives is weak in its perspective and controllability, in other words, even in a situation where hatred or negativity is supposed to bring benefit, it does not bring it, because according to the characteristics of the system, excited by the unpleasantness of negativity, becomes weaker – it loses control and distance of response.
And what prevents from gathering the same power, but without the negativity, by laughing and destroying?
A vivid response can be not negativity, but a bright wit, a calm and decisive demolition.
One of the first music composition I ever created… Moody autumn 2009, while studying audio synthesis on a Linux machine. I started with ambient.
No matter what kind of simulation it is, the reality, i.e. the original from which the simulacrum is taken, will always have a higher value.
This applies to the virtual world, art from ai (simulation of human neurons and feelings), porn, racing games, everything. This experience, it recreates feelings, that is, the screen-surface, but not the atomic, spatial and ideological depth.
An interesting counter-example is video games, simulations of sports matches, say for instance footbal. It’s not really a simulation in the literal sense anymore….. there’s no reality where you control 11 people, it’s a new game, like table-footbal. A slightly new, different entity.
Absolute freedom is an illusion, like if transport in the city moved as everyone wanted it to – spontaneously and without rules. In movement (and life is movement), reasonable restrictions on the flow are necessary, you can’t just let everyone move freely and chaotically.
The same with aesthetics and ethics where limits are needed, they are the primary – framers of style.
And with politics. the problem is not so much that there is a leader with power, the problem is how smart and noble he is, that he is not a scum and where he will lead the system, to collapse if he is a fool and nothing or to prosperity and well-being if he is smart and noble.
Real freedom is found at a higher level – in formulating, realizing, planning and discussing these limitations – i.e., in freedom of speech, information.
Internet is an supra-state entity.
It’s an extraordinary phenomenon in our history, like the domestication of electricity.
After all, who ever said that countries, especially in the decadence of today’s fashion of so called “nations” – actually overgrowth weak bureaucracy/money hunting systems, are something ultimate, finished? Just because it was suitable at some point in our evolution doesn’t mean it will be suitable after that. Mankind is waiting for a completely different organization structure, a one to be closer to the perfection of balance and symmetry.
Let’s say they can even block it, turn it off, but in this way they block and turn off themselves, their economy and growth. The pressure of the technological evolution is quite a serious event, in fact.
In general, all forms of creative art can be divided into two categories: dark and light, i.e., warm and cool, serious deep and lucid – affirming and joyful.
In short, there are two extremes of feeling and emotion, and two extremes of up or down.
Black and white.
Minor-major.
With shades and combinations varying from one to the other.
But categorically no other is possible.
There is also gray: neutrality, futurity, technology, but it’s still a cool essence.
Why just those two? There are things that there is no point in asking questions about… There are and there are, + and -. What’s given is given. We look at the whole – there is yes, and there is no. Literally at the basic level of atomic perception there is a plus and there is a minus – at the level of electric charge, even at the level of energy distribution…
There is no such thing as absolute emptiness.
But there is the idea of absolute emptiness.
How empty is that idea?
I know what emptiness is, it’s when I’m not there… and the mind tries to go back to the place where it wasn’t and realizes it was empty.
So doesn’t emptiness equal absence?
The idea of emptiness is space without thought.
Absence is a relative notion.
Look at unknown people with kindness and neutrality, like you would look at your future doctor.
It is important for us to maintain peace and balance, ethics, aesthetics, decency… Until you see for sure that the person in front of you is an asshole, give him some trust, at least a little.
But never fully believe in anyone. Most people are stupid, lazy and selfish after all. Always keep your privacy and personal security at a reasonable level, especially today.
In the jungles of modern world’s capitalism, in a huge big company… they’re not aiming to make just a good product.
They’re just trying to make a product that will sell well.
Values there don’t aim a healthy, beautiful, prosperous society, but only to fill their own pocket with money, no matter if letting other people die.
That’s completely wrong because we are all connected, we are all fruits of the same tree – the tree of life, we share the same home – the earth, we share the same roof – the sky.
Value, quality, perspective? All these things are unimportant in the mainstream of capitalism today – just to sell, just to promote, just to hold on to their position.
We live in times of anti-humanism. Money and greed have conquered ordinary people. The sudden ultra-globalization of markets and sharp information revolution has only increased the masses of fools.
Systems and organization of resource and energy fluxes corresponds to the volume and geometric structuring of the environment – that is, what is the composition of the flow of people and their labor, its complexity and depth, so their self-organization and regulation of efficiency.
Today’s model is inefficient… our world is in crisis. With globalization and ultra-productivization, the money-market model of generations before yesterdays – of capital accumulation and distribution – is becoming increasingly irrelevant. As if feudalism were today. Actually what we see, by the way – the profound absurdity, the inappropriateness to progress and the common good of techno-feudalism of overgrown bureaucratic based, authority biased corporations and states.
All these systems work well on a small scale, adaptation is needed when outgrowing them. Laws, society, companies, money…
The next systems to be decentralization, universal basic income, and the rejection of money as the main stimulant of production.
‘The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality’ – Dante
Aesthetically, even if one likes the colorful (for example, in clothes), it is normal and acceptable, and sometimes it might even be good, but one must remember to balance it with the “base” – the garnish – “rice”, “bread”, that is – the simple.
Aesthetically, but also ideologically. Balancing it with simplicity.
Black, white, gray, beige, blue…
In music, by the way, rhythm plays an interesting balancing role in this context
“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.” – Niels Bohr
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