Andrew McCluskey

the silence of my bedroom where the only way to escape the invisible yellow caution-tape around my small-town life was on spiral leaf graph-paper.

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This means engaging in activities that put others first, beyond the self interest of a single individual or organizational stakeholder, whether artist, label, festival booker, ticketing company, or other.

Facebook, with its explicit attachment to the real world graph and its enforcement of a single public identity, is just a poor structural fit for the more complex social capital requirements of the young.

In a completely ultra-poptimist world, there would be no available incentives to create novel, complex, or ambiguous works of art. We would have to rely on artist altruism or insanity.

All of this sounds like co-creating a world more curious and kind (and a future less grim). I’m so down for this.