Lesson in Chaos & Creations of the Weird

I’m looking at lyricism as coding. I’m looking for an algorithm. I’m looking to streamline ideas and be able to express them in ways that speak directly to the core and essence of something that we all already know and that we are already connected to.

I’m trying to push buttons at times, and when things turn so ugly, that becomes crucial. It becomes urgent to be able to speak right to the core of something. To be able to shape words or ideas into lance-like bullets that punctures and punctuates a moment, that can inspire or insight something in someone. And allows them to flip that switch and go, ‘You know what? This is bullshit. What the fuck am I participating in? What the fuck is going on here?’

How did we end up with Hipsters, Trumpsters and designer adult diapers

Is pinned to my consciousness

Reality Check, Scramble talk, Chaos think

It's always open Mic night on twitter

The rest of humanity just doesn’t really know it

That everyone is always on and open for business

So what’s the effect of today’s youth culture?

Counter to What? Who you be?

the emotion or affect they valorized and the social form they envisioned.

The Rundown of the Past, in a bitshell

The beatniks aimed at ecstasy embodied as a social form of individual transcendence. Theirs was a culture of jazz, with its spontaneity; of marijuana, arresting time and flooding the soul with pleasure (this was before the substance became the background drug of every youth culture); of flight, on the road, to the West; of the quest for the perfect moment.

For the hippies, the emotion was love: love-ins, free love, the Summer of Love, all you need is love. The social form was utopia, understood in collective terms: the commune, the music festival, the liberation movement.

The punks were all about rage, their social program nihilistic anarchy. “Get pissed,” Johnny Rotten sang. “Destroy.” Hip-hop, punk’s younger brother, was all about rage and nihilism, too, at least until it turned to a vision of individual aggrandizement.

As for the slackers of the late ’80s and early ’90s (Generation X, grunge music, the fiction of David Foster Wallace), their effect ran to apathy and angst, a sense of aimlessness and pointlessness. Whatever. That they had no social vision was precisely what their social vision was: a defensive withdrawal from all commitment as inherently phony.

they belonged to a “post-emotional” generation. 

No anger, no edge, no ego.

Generation Sell, always be closing

Reduce everything down to the lowest common denominator

Lesson in Chaos,

Find the other, those Mutant fun people

And Create The Weird

The best way to predict the future is to make it

Program or be programmed

Cut-up the past and the future will leak out

the art of literally cutting up text and images in random fashion

and then reassembling them to form new, unexpected patterns.

By doing so, one could destabilize language, perception, and reality

and get closer to the truth.

I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants. 

Cognitive liberty begins at home, behind your eyes, and between your ears.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

The first act of liberation is to step forward, and be counted as one of us.

Our digital experiences are out of body.

This biases us toward depersonalized behavior in an environment where one’s identity can be a liability. 

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

But the more anonymously we engage with others, the less we experience the human repercussions of what we say and do.

Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but toward less...We have surrendered the unfolding of a new technological age to a small elite who have seized the capability on offer. But while Renaissance kings maintained their monopoly over the printing press by force, today's elite is depending on little more than our own disinterest.

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

By resisting the temptation to engage from the apparent safety of anonymity, we remain accountable and present - and are much more likely to bring our humanity with us into the digital realm

In some ways, I believe that we are moving into a post-historical period, for lack of a better term. A time when whatever functioned previously will cease to function, or at least will have to be re-thought and re-considered.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

It's weirder and more surprising than the other experiences. I think there are more places where it's just more reality-bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

Podcasting should be alot more like jazz, then reading a book

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.