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Jordan Eskovitz
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Multidisciplinary artist. Partner at VRTCL. Partner npub1h74f0euxvsdjhralqrsf9uz40ag4exeddxlply3065xr22ey9ldqt8h043. Designer & Photographer at Crossway. Christ is Lord. Festina Lente. #design #art #artstr
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EVERYTHING WE SEE INFLUENCES OUR MIND AND SHAPES OUR PERCEPTION. WHEN OUR ENVIRONMENT IS FILLED WITH DETAILED, BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS, IT STIMULATES OUR MINDS, MAKING THEM MORE SOPHISTICATED AND REFINED.

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BY REMOVING DETAIL FROM ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN, THEY ARE SIMPLIFYING OUR SURROUNDINGS, WHICH IN TURN DULL OUR THINKING AND MAKE OUR MINDS LESS ADVANCED.

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AS MINDS BECOME LESS ENGAGED AND MORE ACCUSTOMED TO SIMPLICITY, LOGOS ARE SIMPLIFIED TO ACCOMMODATE THESE CHANGES, MAKING THEM EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO REMEMBER AND VISUALIZE. IN EARLIER TIMES, LOGOS OFTEN HAD INTRICATE DESIGNS, RICH WITH DETAIL, REFLECTING THE CRAFTSMANSHIP AND THE DEEPER MEANINGS ASSOCIATED WITH THE BRAND. THESE MORE COMPLEX LOGOS DEMANDED MORE FROM THE VIEWER- BOTH IN TERMS OF MENTAL EFFORT TO PROCESS THE DETAILS AND IN TERMS OF MEMORY.

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OBJECTS ARE THE DIRECT RESULTS OF PEOPLE'S MINDS, REPRESENTING THE THOUGHTS, CREATIVITY, AND INTELLECT THAT WENT INTO THEIR CREATION. WHEN WE SEE A COMPLEX DESIGN, WE ARE WITNESSING A PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF SOMEONE'S SOPHISTICATED MIND AT WORK.

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THE SIMPLER OUR SURROUNDINGS BECOME, THE DULLER AND LESS CREATIVE OUR MINDS BECOME. THEY ARE INTENTIONALLY DULLING OUR ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE AGENDA OF MODERN ARTWORK AND DESIGN. THE LESS CREATIVE OUR MINDS ARE, THE LESS WE THINK. THEIR GOAL IS TO TURN YOU INTO A WORKER, NOT A THINKER- A FOLLOWER, NOT A CREATOR.

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DIGGING OUR WAY OUT OF THIS BLAND FATE BEGINS WITH EACH OF US, INDIVIDUALLY, INTENTIONALLY CREATING MORE BEAUTIFUL THINGS.

YOU DON'T NEED TO CREATE A GIANT BUILDING OR CATHEDRAL RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE. JUST INCREASE THE EFFORT ON WHATEVER YOU'RE CURRENTLY CREATING, AND SOFTLY PUSH THE OTHERS AROUND YOU TO DO THE SAME.

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THE RISE OF SOUND MONEY/BITCOIN WILL HELP THE ARTISTIC RENAISSANCE MASSIVELY, BY GIVING ARTISTS THE ABILITY TO SAVE AGAIN. BUT WE CAN SPEED UP THE PROCESS BY IMPLEMENTING #PROOFOFWORK INTO EVERYTHING WE DO.

GODSPEED AND I LOOK FORWARD TO BUILDING A MORE BEAUTIFUL WORLD WITH YOU ALL 💜

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A lot of good thoughts in here. Thanks for sharing.

One quick note about logos: a lot of the push for less detailed logos also has to do with how the use and application of logos has evolved. Logos now need to be easily reproducible and scalable, particularly for mobile.

That said, I am not a huge fan of the *debranding* trend right now and find a lot of contemporary logo design—while aesthetically slick and technically well done—nonetheless uninspired and lacking in a humanness.

And another quick note about overall underlying causes: fiat is most certainly a major culprit but our ideas and ideals around aesthetics, beauty, art, and design are downstream of what we believe and value as a people. So while a sound money standard would go a long way in addressing the matter of dullness, this is most fundamentally a worldview issue.

Okay Nationalist.

We were all born under the dictatorship of the FIAT printers that coopted the world and eroded away all country's and people's more open ideals in favor of more guarded and closed ones.

I may be "American" by current definition but I do not truly define myself as a member of any particular group. Instead I define myself as a sovereign individual who respects others regardless of the variations that they received in the various lotteries of life.

I am no better than so called illegal immigrants who suffer more than I have under the FIAT printers manipulations. We are all more alike than we are different.

Borders divide us and prevent true human progress, the borders are meant to enforce the FIAT printers power and control over certain geographical areas and prevent people from leaving bad countries when they could instead support higher quality cultures and policies towards growth.

If you truly believe in the power of decentralization, then you should realize that every individual is a node of the human species and the more freely we are allowed to interact with each other without restriction the better the world will be.

The main problem we have is the constant manipulation and destabilization of regions that are developing, causing the people within those regions to flee to whoever will take them. This causes cultural conflict as many more people move than naturally would if conditions were better and free of manipulation.

Countries are centralized authorities, it's great to put your trust in central authorities right? Cause that has worked out so well for us all.

Nationalism is a shitcoin. Do better.

I don't wholly disagree with many of your points but, respectfully, I think a few things are worth noting:

Nations and centralized federal governments are not exactly the same thing. To love one's nation—to be nationalistic—is to love one's people. Those who share in a common vision, language, set of values, heritage, and/or underlying worldview.

National borders are not mere fabrications created by the fiat cartel. Nations have always had borders for the same reasons you lock your doors at night. Borders are abused and politicised by bad actors, but borders are not an inherent evil. Quite the opposite. Freedom requires boundaries and constraints.

You have three options: tribalism, nationalism, and globalism. Individuals have a kind of sovereignty, yes, but this isn't a viable fourth option because people don't organize themselves around individualist principles. That's a very modern notion. Rather, we are made for community. Tribalism is too narrow and doesn't allow for civilization. Globalism is too broad and doesn't allow for healthy layers of local community and jurisdictions.

Nationalism is, in principle, the likeliest way to achieve the most freedom for a people's while also allowing for the progress, construction, innovation, and exploration required to establish or maintain a society/civilization.

Good stuff to ponder. A few shotgun thoughts:

I can have righteous indignation over evil BECAUSE of love.

We should be chiefly concerned with confronting the evil in our own hearts.

Enemies and neighbors are most often one and the same. In light of this, I can call for God to judge the enemies of Christ—pray imprecatory prayers—while showing love to my *direct* enemies, or those in my orbit. When praying God judge his enemies—to destroy them—that often means to destroy the works of darkness and turn them to Christ, but it can also mean, in God's perfect wisdom, to bring relief to his people by removing the enemies from the face of the earth.

You can try venice.ai

I have had some issues with it but I am assuming it has more to do with running Orbot than the website.

The most communist places in the US

I just watched the original The Shop Around the Corner. Stewart is great in that movie too, and I think there is enough Christmas in it for it to qualify as a Christmas movie. 😁

This is also where retrieval of the preindustrial productive home is important too. Because the husband shared in a majority of the domestic duties of the home, as did the children. But because it is still in line with women's nature to be the oikodespot, the burden still falls on her on top of corporate duties.

The best way for this to change is more integrated households, where what we have come to expect as outsourced duties—education, economic activity, hospitality, etc—are all brought back into the home. This can have a variety of expressions, of course, but so long as children are shipped off to school, husband and wife go their own way corporately, and the home is merely a place where a family sleeps and keeps their stuff, it will be more of the same, with people grasping for something like the 50s mythical housewife not realizing what they likely want is a real, integrated household.

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Leagues better than in a dehumanizing cubical under florecents and some other man's authority. Or than trying to keep up with the men and becomes feminist boss babe.

Ideal is that a woman contribute to the economic productivity of the home but not as a corporate wage slave. Hard to achieve but more possible now than it has been in a century.

Preindustrial households—and early postindustrial households too, depending on the family occupation—were organized in such a way that the wife and mother was the oikodespot—the household manager—and was indeed a housewife, but was also involved in the economic activity of the home. Often, to such a degree that when a husband would die, the wife knew enough about his craft to keep the family business going.

Proverbs 31 also indicates that the righteous woman is righteously submissive AND gloriously industrious.

The 50s era mythic housewife was the result of the postindustrial fragmentation of the family (which spurred first wave feminism) and any man who wants one out of some *RETVRN motivated attempt at subverting the current system* is not reaching back far enough in history. His household will still fall short of the glory it could have otherwise obtained.