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I have nothing to contribute. All of my artistic endeavors suck. I become frustrated and abandon my efforts before I develop any real skill in the matter. Even by day, I can't seem to do anything creative. I shuffle papers, write documentation, and help make sure things conform to an artificial system of self-perpetuating nonsense. I am part of the self; I perpetuate the system.
Fuck.
Yesterday was an emotional rollercoaster full of rage; today was an existential crisis. What will tomorrow manage to bring to this house I games I laughingly call a mind?
All of a sudden, my head collapsed. It became an intellectual singularity of directionlessness. What do I want to do? I can float some ideas, but all get trampled on by the next question. Why do I want to do it? Two days ago, this didn't seem to be an issue; it wasn't even a question. Now, all of a sudden I have no answers anymore.
I'm trapped. By work, by money, by this financial slavery they call debt, I'm trapped by a mortgage's worth of student loan debt. What the fuck was I thinking when I signed up for that shit? I avoided things for a little while longer at the cost of a high five-figure price tag and my freedom.
And so, I do what I do. I make some money. I pay these fuckers back. These fuckers that profit off of my education. Who gave them the right?!? Who started the idea that I will learn and you will make money off of my learning? Trapped as I am by it, I perpetuate a system. I perpetuate a soul-crushing, mind-numbing catastrophe.
I'm not sure whether I want to break shit, or make shit. I'm good at former, and terrible at the latter. Aren't we all?
Fuck.
Yesterday was an emotional rollercoaster full of rage; today was an existential crisis. What will tomorrow manage to bring to this house I games I laughingly call a mind?
All of a sudden, my head collapsed. It became an intellectual singularity of directionlessness. What do I want to do? I can float some ideas, but all get trampled on by the next question. Why do I want to do it? Two days ago, this didn't seem to be an issue; it wasn't even a question. Now, all of a sudden I have no answers anymore.
I'm trapped. By work, by money, by this financial slavery they call debt, I'm trapped by a mortgage's worth of student loan debt. What the fuck was I thinking when I signed up for that shit? I avoided things for a little while longer at the cost of a high five-figure price tag and my freedom.
And so, I do what I do. I make some money. I pay these fuckers back. These fuckers that profit off of my education. Who gave them the right?!? Who started the idea that I will learn and you will make money off of my learning? Trapped as I am by it, I perpetuate a system. I perpetuate a soul-crushing, mind-numbing catastrophe.
I'm not sure whether I want to break shit, or make shit. I'm good at former, and terrible at the latter. Aren't we all?
The Best Stuff Remains Hidden
I make no claim to producing good visual art. I merely enjoy the production of mediocre works for my own benefit. I have only a slightly higher impression of my musical works. Sadly, what I'm really good at remains hidden, controlled as essentially work-for-hire.
I am really good at circuit design.
Form and function combine spectacularly and the output seems to almost evolve on its own from conception, through schematic, to populated circuit board, with all the wonderful steps in between.
While many will enjoy the function of the product, few have the opportunity to examine the form of it, at least beyond the most basic of gross form. Beca
Limits of Transmission
Sight and sound. That's what we've got. A few creative devices can even do limited sensations of touch. Beyond that, though, there's no feasible way to transduce.
Sight and sound are easy. Both are limited to a single form of energy and transducing from electricity to sound or electricity to light is well developed as a technology. Further transducing information into energy is also doing pretty well for itself. A few motors in a few key spots and you've even got a bit of a touch sensation. All this can be transmitted.
Taste and smell present us with some problems. The transduction is chemical to electrical, and this we have not mastered so
Wanderlust
Feeling this unsuitable for my main blog. I choose this text to inaugurate journaling here.
Staring out the window at the tarmac. The high-pitched whines are only slightly muffled by the clear panes in front of me. I am in Madison, waiting for my plane back to Cleveland. Returning to many wonderful things -- wonderful people, especially -- but still returning to Cleveland, though only to remain for a brief 48 hours until I'm off again. I do so enjoy traveling.
Here for work, but also here for joy. The pleasures of the traveling are just as great as the purpose and destination. Yet, the concept of "home" and of "work" wear on my soul. Both n
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