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  • it’s complicated it’s complicated it’s complicated

    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?

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    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.

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  • Creator’s purposes in ages of generative ai

    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.

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    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.

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  • Culth of youth

    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.

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  • Concentration of negativity

    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.

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  • Strange days of September 2009

    One of the first music composition I ever created… Moody autumn 2009, while studying audio synthesis on a Linux machine. I started with ambient.

    Original screenshot of my 09.2009 desktop, somehow I posted it on an internet forum from that era
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  • Malicious elements of a system, cultural code elements

    Dictators and authoritarianism, totalitarianism as well as excessive capitalism or even a concentrated ultimate socialism is cultural code. Democratic models can heal such systems with the infusion of fresh minds, but still capitalism leaves little ways with its ‘concentration of power’ leak.

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    Values are fundamental components of the cultural code of individuals in society. The values that guide individuals towards achieving a high quality of life, fostering prosperity, cultivating a sense of purpose and long-term vision, promoting humanism, recognizing the significance of freedom, and understanding the importance of morality—all of these values are shaped by individuals’ wills and beliefs as long as they recognize their value. These elements are among the most crucial components of a prosperous and successful life.

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  • Simulations, simulacra, post mixed-reality creations

    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.

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    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.

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  • Freedom and limitations

    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.

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    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.

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  • Internet is above them

    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.

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  • The two sides

    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…

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  • Emptiness

    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.

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  • Look at unknown…

    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.

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  • Problems of capitalism, public structures and money

    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.

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  • Nature can sound like hallucinating synthesized electronics

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  • Passivity is a substrate of fascism and degradation

    ‘The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality’ – Dante

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  • Balancing aesthetic: the base prevails

    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

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  • Music

    You need to find your mood with bad music, but good music finds your mood itself.

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  • Fool-proof protection in economy?

    Democracy is a protection from too much power taken by a fool. Politically…

    But what is our moron-protection economically, socially? What defense is there against evil oversized corporations and their dumb managers? After all, random still rules the human staircase, and not the best people come to huge money and resources economically, but most often – on the contrary. They destroy the market and quality of life, even on democratic platforms…

    At the basic level – deliberate consumption, boycott and refusal in favor of small alternatives and free and neutralized systems. In general, it is good when people are intelligent and reject corporations and bad companies. But often the market is brutally monopolized, everyone and everything is bought up, and it becomes more difficult.

    Absolute freedom – this idea sounds beautiful, but it is beautiful for beautiful people and an ideal, absolute world. Our world is full of fools, and what is even more realistic – of the highest complexity and confusion, so there is no place without regulations. In fact, regulation begins even with a quality personality – personal self-management and below.

    There should not be super rich and mega corporations, it is a bad sign – a tumor. And among other things, such structures are extremely complicated and inefficient, both at the level of economy and politics, by the way. Decentralization, redistribution. Best people don’t need countless tons of money, they will distribute the energy into an efficient system of universal humanity usefulness.

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  • Just the human thing

    What is a country – it is not land, resources, borders, ideas of history… it is about people, their society, community, the organization and structure.

    Don’t take complex illusions about any big fiction ideas of historicism, a country is just a current state of communities, it’s a human thing.

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  • Regulate AI asap

    The main problem with AI is not the technology itself but the fools who use it for all sorts of bad purposes.

    So called artificial intelligence (content generators) requires regulation and legislation as soon as possible today, it is a very dangerous technology and the first danger is the people themselves – there are too many fools among us so it is likely that the majority will drown in their own crap of spam, nonsense, and tastelessness, propaganda and lies generated by the tech.

    While the real talents, the wise men and creators may lose their already few chances to reach the crowd, lose their already minimal share of attention to keep the balance fresh.

    Disinformation and spam, intoxication of the flow of information, the primary signs of disease.

    With today’s weak stack of by-money-corrupted values and morals of the early digital era of hyper capitalism and globalization where most people survive and eat each other, a middleman has a very weak notion of decency, duty, quality, honour, he literally will easily sign a bill to your death or to his own degradation for the sake of money or his career or that pseudo “stability”, without a doubt. With artificial intelligence, they are going to contaminate everything and choke themselves even faster than before. Already today search engines are full of false empty information generated by the bots, all big sites are full of spam and bots and cheap low-quality content.

    An epidemic of spam and misinformation…

    What good has content generators (“AI”) done so far besides spam and misinformation? This technology is potentially useful – but for the smart, for the trained and talented people. But it can be dangerous for the masses, dangerous for the idiots, for the evil (remember – evil is blatant ignorance) – we’ve got so many of them in our world. This technology needs to be discreetly shielded by laws and regulations.

    Because most people are greedy morons… it’s getting harder and harder to navigate the information space. But information is everything.

    To survive in this world you need to train your senses, your intuition for information, your bullshit filter. Build real connections.

    The world is getting more and more complicated.

    And don’t forget that today, in the era of the monster corporations, tightly blocked by monopolists and AI internet, independent creators need support and cohesion especially urgently today.



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  • Day by day

    Think of every day as a special day.

    Think about it first thing in the morning.

    Plan it out.

    Think of every day as your last.

    Never hurry. Death and fortune are not worth it.

    Know how to rest… know how to rest well – the best rest is to do nothing at all, to be at peace, lying or sitting, or even walking or cycling, it doesn’t matter, what matters is the emptiness of doing nothing, rest of the brain itself – to contemplate thoughts or the world, to regain strength and will.

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  • Assorted Musings

    Life is not a random phenomenon or magic. It is just the very essence of complication and selection of (chemical and physical) dynamic processes, any chemical reaction develops complication and selection among others (the most efficient processes get more space and energy, gradually the process of organization of reactions takes place).
    Far more questionable in this context is the universe itself and its programs of formation, probability and selectivity.

    “Philosophy is the art of rational assumption.” …by flashlight of the reason to find and illuminate, to understand – where to go and how.


    A religious person is first and foremost a superstitious person. (8)


    The death of the arts and crafts with the advent of powerful artificial intelligence? Yes and no. Above all, it is the evolution of the decorative; AI is wider, not deeper. Something will go away, certainly, especially basic mind labor. Real pure art, on the other hand, is inseparable from man. It is the sense of man, his feeling, his connection – not of machines.


    Molecular theory of music – melodies are like looped molecules, like an odor or a scent.


    Values… what values does the art of music evoke when I try to make new music, is that value real? Or just an exploration of the new, i.e., an act of learning?


    I can be wrong. I can be wrong and that’s okay and I’m not afraid of that, the important thing is to realize the conclusions and move on. We can all be wrong and that’s totally okay. Absolutely eliminate all fear and defense of your own mistakes which makes it even worse usually. I can make mistakes and step back to start again. It’s a good, normal process. It’s much worse when you bury your mistakes, hide them, layer them, therefore multiply them.


    Finding, formulating, and posing a problem is more important than closing it, especially in arts discourse. Most problems are stretched over time. Entropy… as long as you live, you learn and solve problems. It’s a game.


    An Out of the Box View
    My thoughts are directed into cosmos and from cosmos always… from there and only from there and through it one can soberly realize all the processes taking place on earth.

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  • Habits, simplicity

    Habits and understanding of their mechanics, mechanisms of routines, flows and time-stretching processes is one the most important thing of all regarding quality of our life, happiness, balance and productivity. You can manage yourself to 95% anything

    You can accustom or wean yourself to anything with a series of attempts – if you have the intention (the intention is formed by values).

    Our brain itself, despite all its flaws, is very good and flexible, but we need to construct a desire – aka will, motivation and awareness of values, of quality.

    All sorts of grooves-tracks (for flow) in the brain are formed by life… habits. You can change them. The main thing is to believe, to be patient… Habits can always be corrected. The main thing is to remember that it’s real and possible – that the brain is flexible and you really can change almost anything about it.

    Using such strategies and understanding, I managed to successfully quit many things: smoking, drugs, toxic people, sugar, social media and mass media internet; and vice versa – to habituate myself to the important – for example, establishing the daily flow of work (hitch – hang the habit on certain “unskippable” parts of the day, for example, do work after breakfast, or after lunch, or before bed), or to do daily sport (just choose sport you love…) and eat healthy food: abruptly forbid sugars and any ultra processed “super-market” products, leave for example honey and vegetables, fruits, raw cereals, enjoy it (it’s actually good, after all), try to come up with interesting dishes out of them, then you get used to it – and that’s it, done. I also gave up brands and expensive things, in clothes and equipment I use simple and basic, and a little – but reliable and high quality. If tech, avoid corporations, over-complexity, get used to open source, it’s stable it’s reliable. I always strive for simplicity and clarity, anti-fragility.

    You can do it. If not the first time, but the second, tenth time. Yes, many attempts, but hard focus on the quality, on perspective.

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