rob hardy

“There is no alternative” is a cheap rhetorical sleight. It’s a demand dressed up as an observation. “There is no alternative” means: “Stop trying to think of an alternative.”

Alan Watts famously said of psychedelics, “once you get the message, hang up the phone.” I took the opposite approach. I fucking haunted God. I called a hundred times a day, and when He didn’t answer I’d show up pounding on the door of His house in the middle of the night. I went around and around the cycle of grief: denial, anger, bargaining,... See more

if your work is solely driven by how people respond to it, you’ll create something popular but soulless

if it’s driven by how you feel about it, you’ll create something potent but obscure

but if your work is a dialogue between self & world, it can be both resonant & true

Cringe is fakeness leaving the body