Cyan Banister
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346 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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And when you start treating them as separate entities and have curiosity about them and start having conversations with them, you start to realize they're automatic processes that come online that you can then give them other jobs to do. And you can change your personality permanently for the better.
I've gotten rid of some behaviors that I thought were unchangeable through IFS, nervousness, types of nervousness, types of reactions to people talking to me and realizing that these were all just automatic functions of how I show up and react to any kind of perception or stimulus in the world. And it wasn't about the person I was dealing with. It was about me.
In general, it's usually all about how you... handle anything coming at you. A friend of mine said something really powerful to me once, which was, if people are coming with you with anything but love, it's not about you.
Absolutely. Absolutely. I feel flawed. You're going to hear people talk about when they talk about spirituality, about being asleep and And what being asleep means is going back into your mechanical automatic reflexes of reacting to life and just sort of not being truly present. And if I have a flaw, it's just the flaw of being human and not realizing that I'm not being present in the moment.
And so that's something that I want to grind away at and fix over time. I think that sometimes I can be reactive to things in ways that I wish I wasn't. So I'm working on those things. None of us is perfect. I think the whole experiment of life, if you are an infinite being, let's just pause at this for a moment.
If you're an infinite being, being in a body is meant to basically give you artificial constraints. And what if it was possible that maybe you even chose these restraints? I want to be in this situation. I want to overcome this adversity. I want to have this hardship. I want these things and I wanted them. And so I've got to figure out how to get to the other side of them.
So all of our imperfection is just a lesson. That's all it is to me.
I would disrupt the Hollywood industry. I would reimagine the studio system and I would build a company around it.
You've got to look back at Hollywood and how it was founded. The old studio system, all of the artists used to work for the studio. And they were on payroll. And then what happened was they became wildly successful and then fans loved them, but they had no upside. So basically they had no way to really capture any of this fan engagement.
So they couldn't get money from public appearances and things like that. Along came Michael Ovitz and turned that on its head and created something called CAA.
And Michael Ovis is the best. I love that man. And he re-imagined how an industry could operate. And he put the power back in the hand of the artists. That's why it's called the Creative Artists Agency. And he fought for these artists and basically started packaging these deals that were full packages where they developed everything and then worked with the studios on financing and distribution.
It's still that way today. And unfortunately, kind of like all protectionist rackets that exist out there, they don't want to adapt to the times and the times are changing. And now we have Netflix. In the beginning, they were pretty short-sighted. They thought that DVDs coming in the mail was like the Holy Grail. They didn't see where the evolution of this thing was going.
Kind of like Napster disrupted the music industry and we ended up with Spotify. We haven't ended up with... a new model for how studios operate. We're starting to see some interesting things happening with like NFTs and Web3 and distribution techniques for content that have never been tried before.
Whenever you have gatekeepers who are the only people who are putting out content, that means that there are millions of voices that aren't heard. And I believe that every voice has a chance to be heard and ought to be heard, even if you don't like what they have to say, because how else can we get to the right answers if the full discussion isn't happening?
So the movies that we're seeing right now are dumbed down for general audience appeal. They're made to make the most amount of money possible, but they're not made to teach you potentially how to live your life differently or to question yourself.
Art has an amazing way of moving the needle of culture and for opening people's minds and hearts to subjects that they might not have otherwise thought about. And so I'm afraid right now we're in kind of a monoculture where there's only a few people making content and they have an agenda. If you look at a lot of this content, it's being censored by the CCP.
We're not even allowed to criticize China in any of our film. We should be allowed to criticize China in our films. That should be okay. And the fact that we're not alarmed by this to me is kind of nuts. I would want to bring transparency to accounting and the studio model to where everybody understands the waterfall and understands who's getting paid what and how.
I would love to give power to artists and to the early believers in that system. So for example, in venture, angel investors can invest in a company and we have a lot of upside protection.
So the later investors come in and save the day of the company, maybe they have some preferences, maybe some things happen where they get rewarded, but you should never screw over the first people who believed because you would have never had the opportunity in the first place. to invest later on if you screw over those first people who believe.
Hollywood is totally based off of screwing over those first believers. And so there's a lot of people who put money in or wrote a script or did a lot of things that they don't ever recoup that money. It's only the later stage investors who do. I just really, really think that ideas have to flourish. I'm a First Amendment nut.
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