Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s fine. It’s not their journey to make sense of. It’s yours.
Author | Photographer | CG Artist | Filmmaker
If you’re tired of all the artificial & superficial personalities with fake enthusiasm catering to your ego & sense of selfworth so they can get you to buy more shit you don’t need so you can finally be happy or successful, stop giving them your attention & business.
Never forget that 1 poor millionaire can now buy the “voices” of tens of thousands of bots who sound just like real people. And the socialproof created by these bots influence real people to act, propagate misinformation & vote. Imagine what a poor billionaire could do.
Artists writers & creators, resist the urge to seek instantgratification. What you unveil today is simply the foundation of all your future work. Likes are hollow. Focus on your skills. It often takes years before creations/creators deserving of recognition actually get it.
Life can get really difficult & discouraging at times & make you want to crawl under a rock in defeat. Don’t.
Rest if you have to, but don give up. This is not the end of your story. It’s not only OK to Take a Time Out & consider your options & re-strategize. It’s wise.
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 25, 2019
Both what’s feared & what’s considered weird often stem from a lack of knowledge & understanding. Preserving an inquisitive & openmind not only reduces fear & the reflex to condemn differences, it increases tolerance & opportunities and builds bridges instead of walls.
Enough with celebrating & promoting not caring & no f*cks. If you think not caring is solvingProblems, *you* are a part of the problem. Not caring about everything is a dysfunctional extreme, just like being offended by anyone with a different opinion (or a joke) to tell is.
[Note: I wrote about this in 2013 (and a better version of that made it into my book). Since, then, this “I don’t give AF” sentiment has become a cultural issue.]FunFact: Those who benefit & profit from the current state of the world don’t want it to change. They want to ensure the statusquo even if it’s at your expense. Because when *they’re* benefitting, to hell with everyone else. Ah, the freedom of wealth & few consequences
Even if climatechange wasn’t real, so what? A cleaner, safer planet & healthier, less cancer-prone humans with harmonious habits and fewer endangered species are bad things to aspire to because…
OH SHIT. I forgot about coal!
Regardless of where your loyalties lie, the fact is, there are efforts being made to manipulate people with misrepresented & distorted information. Infighting, distrust, confusion & chaos are being used as *tools*. We can no longer simply accept what we are shown at face value
