he image has to be larger than the origin, and I think because we have probably the largest image today, which is the internet, and globalization. What happens is any new work, any image that is smaller than that, it kind of just gets sucked up into that.

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

an image equals a new horizon which equals a space for action, a collective game plan, and a new story arc initiated.

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

We need to sort of keep moving. Um, I think that's integral to how we kind of preserve a good balance of optimism, uh, in the human consciousness.

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

Because if we're continuously staying on the island, we'll overpopulate it or ravage it for all that it has. Humanity has to keep moving forward with new images and keep building new boats, so we can get a broad view throughout history of how this takes us up to today, which is that I think the last boat that we sent out was the boat of

When we think of the kind of modern crises that we're facing, is that with the internet as the sort of spawn point, the origin point, none of it is really big enough. It's a sort of terrible thing to think about, but like climate change as a story, the idea of solving climate change as a story arc is not it. Actually, it's a regression from

nstead of focusing on issues directly, focus on the thing that is going to collectivize people best. Focus on the story arc, the thing that is going to really give people a sense of collective purpose first, and just by virtue of bringing people Together in a more positive, optimistic way, we'll create byproducts that will solve those problems.