David Pennington

“People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing—refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.”

“I came in with very small ideas,” says Josh Vana, a sculptural artist and former student of Steinbach, “Like they were technically okay, but they were small ... We showed up to that first critique, and he was like, ‘go bigger’ and it gave me the freedom to create–to go absolutely nuts and crazy.”

Said differently, we try to measure what we value.

But we inevitably end up valuing what we measure.

As soon as you start asking questions, you have an obligation to listen to the answers.

Many things in modernity are brain dead, but I can’t think of anything worse than the short form dystopias of TikTok and Instagram. They’re materially making people dumber, breeding addict behavior (particularly in the young) and ultimately ruining the lives of normies. It’s depressing to think about the countless kids who might have started garage... See more

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