This Could Still Be a Movement: Why Mars Needs a Creative Director

it’s really about creating a competitive market, like pushing all the ideas out, and the best ones will win.

f there's no images that people have been putting in, no reference points, people are just looking at surface stuff all day, and they're just going to keep making surface stuff

I think a lot of kids are in that situation where you know ultimately they're just not being given the codes.

They have, they have unlimited curiosity, but really are not being given the codes.

I think there’s a really big myth of the genius founder. While being there, there are some exceptional people.

It is always about the like 80 people that actually allowed something to materialize, and not allowing that reference and those lines being drawn in the ecosystem has been, again, one of the failures of kind of the current state of what it

like, you know, no reference point to go off of, that’s ego system. That’s “I am the synthesizer; therefore, you consume me and I give purpose to your identity.” Ecosystem is “I’m showing you every line that I pulled from, and I’m giving you access to every single person.”

Like, this is more about open referencing, and actually, like, um, we call it kind of a layered approach.

Which is that everything you make should point in the direction of the reference or something else that’s going to take you deeper. So that at least, if you don’t have the time, you can stop there. But if you are curious, you can go deeper; you

I think what’s important here too is that this isn’t about removing cultural nuance. It’s not about removing the richness of language or the richness of culture. It’s about kind of reorienting, I guess, our borders around things that aren’t violent. I mean, the current issue really is that, you know, culture and language are reinforcing a kind of v

think Mars is actually an opportunity to reorient our economy around, uh, fluid and sort of ever-changing identity, and the removal of identity as a fixed construct. I actually think that that is a more abundant economy than the one we're in now because we have to think about how uh, how much creative um, restriction there is due to something not f

the real disease of the Western world is the idea of the true self. I think the true self is kind of, it's the sort of idea that is foundational to the current consumerist economy that we're in, which is basically the carrot on the end of the stick. You know, as soon as we might consume this thing, we get slightly closer to our idea of what we want