a really smart guy once talked to me about how a community that just pats each other on the back and is not critical about the practices of it’s participants yet still is political and shuts out people who are willing to challenge what everyone is being fed basically results in a cultural inbreeding and stagnation and i think about that a lot.
this ties into why i continue to identify as an outsider to any particular scene, and why i give most of my support/attention to other fringe and outsider freak art/artists in general, as above all i think people just going off on their own tip and not giving a fuck about belonging somewhere in society is pretty soy sauce all aces scrap mastery.
more or less my ethos is that one should not conform or adopt themselves to the larger mass and find complacency in surface level knowledge or culture, but rather spend their time knocking doors down, invading secrecy, plundering the unknown, and generally getting weirder than they were the day before. knowledge is not a precious gem others cling to and deny you, knowledge is the power to transcend beyond the realms of what we held onto as real, thus destroying the lies we live in as each day passes.
Fuck yes
