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Love it. Yeah, I think the way I've always thought about it was this kind of like, it's this like flame-tending process, where in these sort of flow cycles, your job is to keep the flame alive. And eventually, you know that you're going to see it, like, you know, you're going to see the explosion again, right? You're going to see the flame...
Love it. Yeah, I think the way I've always thought about it was this kind of like, it's this like flame-tending process, where in these sort of flow cycles, your job is to keep the flame alive. And eventually, you know that you're going to see it, like, you know, you're going to see the explosion again, right? You're going to see the flame...
but like that that doesn't happen unless the flame is still there and unless people have been tending it and people have been trying to make it grow and you can't necessarily just like add fuel to it and be like ah it's gonna it's gonna grow now right it you know you don't you don't really have control of how it sort of moves and grows it expands but you have control over your ability to like make sure that it keeps going absolutely all about the embers yeah
but like that that doesn't happen unless the flame is still there and unless people have been tending it and people have been trying to make it grow and you can't necessarily just like add fuel to it and be like ah it's gonna it's gonna grow now right it you know you don't you don't really have control of how it sort of moves and grows it expands but you have control over your ability to like make sure that it keeps going absolutely all about the embers yeah
but like that that doesn't happen unless the flame is still there and unless people have been tending it and people have been trying to make it grow and you can't necessarily just like add fuel to it and be like ah it's gonna it's gonna grow now right it you know you don't you don't really have control of how it sort of moves and grows it expands but you have control over your ability to like make sure that it keeps going absolutely all about the embers yeah
And I think also, like, I think about the punk metaphor a lot. Like, one of the ways that I've been thinking a lot about, like, what we're doing here and it could happen here is we kind of took the...
And I think also, like, I think about the punk metaphor a lot. Like, one of the ways that I've been thinking a lot about, like, what we're doing here and it could happen here is we kind of took the...
And I think also, like, I think about the punk metaphor a lot. Like, one of the ways that I've been thinking a lot about, like, what we're doing here and it could happen here is we kind of took the...
We took the Rage Against the Machine gambit, which is to say we were like, okay, we're going to try to go somewhat mainstream in order to... I mean, Rage obviously went way bigger than we did, but we're going to go somewhat mainstream so we can spread this thing to a larger group of people.
We took the Rage Against the Machine gambit, which is to say we were like, okay, we're going to try to go somewhat mainstream in order to... I mean, Rage obviously went way bigger than we did, but we're going to go somewhat mainstream so we can spread this thing to a larger group of people.
We took the Rage Against the Machine gambit, which is to say we were like, okay, we're going to try to go somewhat mainstream in order to... I mean, Rage obviously went way bigger than we did, but we're going to go somewhat mainstream so we can spread this thing to a larger group of people.
That's also very, very dangerous in the sense that it's very easy to just lose yourself in the mire of the field you've walked into. But on the other hand, the upside about it is that we're not the only people...
That's also very, very dangerous in the sense that it's very easy to just lose yourself in the mire of the field you've walked into. But on the other hand, the upside about it is that we're not the only people...
That's also very, very dangerous in the sense that it's very easy to just lose yourself in the mire of the field you've walked into. But on the other hand, the upside about it is that we're not the only people...
doing this right and there's all of you out there who are doing this like everyone on this call is doing this like is doing the like like the DIY work that is going to be the core of what this whole thing becomes and the more the more of these media projects we get and the more that people are able to sustain themselves doing this the more that we're sort of able to break like I don't know just like the monomaniacal sub stack control of like taking your money and giving it the transphobes
doing this right and there's all of you out there who are doing this like everyone on this call is doing this like is doing the like like the DIY work that is going to be the core of what this whole thing becomes and the more the more of these media projects we get and the more that people are able to sustain themselves doing this the more that we're sort of able to break like I don't know just like the monomaniacal sub stack control of like taking your money and giving it the transphobes
doing this right and there's all of you out there who are doing this like everyone on this call is doing this like is doing the like like the DIY work that is going to be the core of what this whole thing becomes and the more the more of these media projects we get and the more that people are able to sustain themselves doing this the more that we're sort of able to break like I don't know just like the monomaniacal sub stack control of like taking your money and giving it the transphobes
Kind of thing, the better shape we're going to be in in the years to come.
Kind of thing, the better shape we're going to be in in the years to come.
Kind of thing, the better shape we're going to be in in the years to come.