oooh good call. thanks! hope you enjoy the video, let me know what you think!

I think the reason Japan still has great, contemporary public art (from what I saw briefly) is because they have a culture that really values artists.

So much of this is evident in people of every generation, from all walks of life collecting characters and iconography in print media, video games, music, movies etc.

The governments of Ancient Greece commissioned art and sculptures all the time, and I think most people would call it objectively fantastic to this day.

Japan has some pretty amazing works funded by the government as well.

I think the issues arise when the government becomes a lifeline for artists who no longer have any other opportunities because fiat and unsound money has ravaged the private sector and free market.

Also when intelligence agencies, who are funded endlessly by the fiat machine, get to pull the strings and control the media.

You still need some sort of governing body to approve and select art as long as we have public spaces. Or even if a corporation owns a public space, they'll still have a sort of bureaucracy too.

hahahaha

it's up fam

https://primal.net/e/note10e2k3ey4zgy0zhg6lcr762jtjfsz3ua8mkx9qrdp9zua90v5hcls0qkjf6

GM NOSTR 💥 NEW VIDEO!

Have you ever seen a piece of public art SO BAD it made you question your FAITH in HUMANITY?

Have you ever wondered if Central Bankers and Intelligence Agencies are weaponizing art to make us SLAVE AWAY at our fiat existences?

Have you ever gone so far down that rabbit hole that you posted up for 48 hours in front of a public art installation AND MADE A VIDEO ABOUT IT?

I did.

Watch below and let me know if I'm crazy or not. 👇

Featuring a cameo by the one and only nostr:npub1ndketdm2qyv35nrhsxzks8kh7w7w6tll4rjp29hv0qjqkgfjsh6snmgk2v

https://v.nostr.build/CtTm8XJ4Z9M92bv1.mp4

nope but something happened to my health that is delaying that vid

an ongoing drama. that vid comes December likely

should I post my new documentary a day early on NOSTR?

you guys have to promise not to share it outside of the NOSTR-verse 🤫

Saifedean asked me to make an advertisement for his latest book.

https://v.nostr.build/brGnf6AgTSyIzTCv.mp4

LEVEL UP

dear NOSTR

if you aren't putting this on virtually everything, you're missing out COLOSSALLY

have a nice day

I won't entirely speak for nostr:npub1k763esjjzm2vzz7gtt38q4wf49zlua72l4rreu3myzghuwwwdqtq2mcg5x but I believe the other part to his thesis is that returning to faith/God will solve a lot of these issues and temptations you mention with human nature, and that can be catalyzed by Bitcoin as well

Having some challenges posting longer videos on NOSTR (bandwidth / storage limits) - but here is one of my more favorite episodes of Future proof w/ nostr:npub1k763esjjzm2vzz7gtt38q4wf49zlua72l4rreu3myzghuwwwdqtq2mcg5x

Capitalism vs. Corporatocracy - What's The Difference?

https://v.nostr.build/5oaO8MikbKDi07qg.mp4

p.s. zaps go towards paying for censorless video hosting ⚡⚡

Bug diet had a health shock related twist, so I need to sort that out, but on track for a full video in November/December.

what a journey 😅

lost -12lbs and some other stuff I can't speak on yet... But there will be a whole video in the next 2 months

she will keep corporatist agendas to win votes as long as she needs them.

corporatism/corporatocracy is also just communism for corporations

hot take: kamala harris isn't as dumb as she wants you to think she is.

yes, you read that right.

her entire career as a prosecutor was built on reading and probing people.

if you can't win by laying out the facts, you win on creating perception.

you create a story.

when Kamala does a funny accent, laughs too much, or repeats a slogan - she's creating a narrative about herself.

these are not emergent accidents in her political journey, like Trump speaking his mind and hitting a controversial note, or Biden tripping down a flight of stairs.

she is in control of the story being told about her.

this is why she has almost completely stopped saying "the unburdened by what has been" line in the last 60 days.

the mockery has already been made, the well has been dried - it has reached the point of diminishing returns in terms of right wing press coverage.

she, of course, gains from a completely manufactured "uninterested" left-wing press (do we really think *nobody* on the left wants to interview her, and isn't frustrated by the lack of access?)

but her coverage from a right wing press standpoint is almost solely focused on either:

a) completely impossible to legislate campaign promises like unrealized gain taxes, or $25000 housing credits

or

b) her new gaffe/accent/repeated line-of-the-week

coverage of either of these things has zero effect on independent voters.

this coverage/commentary does not make an even SLIGHTLY informed voter lean decisively against her

they are also such milquetoast subjects at this point that they won't galvanize republicans to turn out en masse as well

you want to know what democrats/left wing establishment were most worried about, but have almost completely memory-holed?

the 1st trump assassination attempt

zero coverage on ANY network on the shooter's motives, and hardly a mention from Trump himself in about 4 weeks until the 2nd failed attempt

trump not leaning into his 1st assassination attempt is quite possibly the biggest self-own in american politics I have ever seen

meanwhile, kamala and a highly coordinated group of democratic operatives are running one of the most impressive operations of political persuasion I have ever seen

it's what was completely lacking from Clinton's campaign back in 2016, but what was learned from Biden's successful "basement" strategy in 2020.

this is what will likely lead to Kamala in the whitehouse in 2024, barring any unforeseen story regarding her that she can't get coordinated responses and handling of

want to try and make a difference as an individual that can't stand her and her backers?

stop focusing on what she says/doesn't say, and focus on who she is and what she does.

she grew up with two professors as parents.

her father was a post-Keynsian economist who wrote dissertations on Marxism.

start deeply researching what both those terms and fields of study imply, and educate yourself and your community on the absolute travesty they have wrought in their wake

and i'll keep making the videos long after the election ✌️

only the really fancy ones

making films in new genres I have never attempted before