writing i like

Sam Harris once said, about smoking weed, that everyone he knows who smokes weed would benefit from smoking less, and everyone he knows who doesn’t smoke weed would benefit from smoking more.

“That would be my advice to you as an artist as well as a man. If there’s something that’s dirty within you, you can’t just present it as is. You kind of have to turn the contradiction into something positive by sharing it with other people who might not think they have one. Sublimate those contradictions within you into art.”

The insane thing is that it’s working. 98 Metacritic. Critics calling it “album of the year.” Audiences like me willing to walk 12 kilometers listening twice because stopping would break the spell.

This matters because it contradicts everything we’re told about cultural possibility in 2025. That attention spans are dead. That complexity can’t... See more