everyone I know is looking for the next thing
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
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Mars is an image
Baukunst • This Could Still Be a Movement: Why Mars Needs a Creative Director
"The barnacle" the author explained "is confronted with an existential decision about where it's going to live. Once it decides.. . it spends the rest of its life with its head cemented to a rock.." End of quote. For a good many of us, it comes to that.
We've all seen men and women, even ones in fortunate circumstances with responsible positions who
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I think I probably philosophically disagree with the statement that we've destroyed Earth. But this is about the mirror; this is about thinking larger and creating images that will solve these things as byproducts. If you fundamentally disagree with that perception, then there’s kind of like nowhere to go, right conversationally between us. But if
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“Why are we in all these conflicts? Because the images y'all make suck. That's the youth culture answer for you. The images y'all make suck. Marge is a better image, and it's gonna solve these things in a far more interesting way.'“
Reggie James
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
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But for the most part, Mars is really a point of inspiration; it’s a sort of direction to move in.
Baukunst • This Could Still Be a Movement: Why Mars Needs a Creative Director
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.
Baukunst • This Could Still Be a Movement: Why Mars Needs a Creative Director
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.
Baukunst • This Could Still Be a Movement: Why Mars Needs a Creative Director
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
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