No One There: A Manifesto

This really resonates. Thank you for making it.

Thank you for writing this manifesto. It's hard to accept that no one might care sometimes. Regardless, it's a truth I had to learn to be comfortable with. I am doing this because I can't fathom not wanting to tell a story otherwise. Even if said story is something I wrote for myself. 

So true; I guess it's easy to forget that likes aren't a measure of success and don't define one's work value

I agree. There's more to say but I will say that to not start an entire debate.

(Also, not the most easily readable text :))

Value calculations have poisoned us. The ideal state of creative work is creation for its own sake. This is spoiled by a deep impulse to generate capital that has been engendered by a society obsessed with value. Social media and attention economies are just another way that that impulse has been reproduced. Art is in many ways a rejection of this at it’s core. Art has no intrinsic value; though some (usually already successful people) would like you to believe that it does for the sake of marketing. Make art that only you like. Make art that you don’t even like!

Also pay artists. Its hard out here.

I find contentment not in the silence, but in getting the thought out of my mind and into the world. I think I accepted that it will sit in silence forever long ago. I make to give the thing a life, to place it in the world. Even if no-one connects to it, my purpose is simply to make it. And I'm okay with that.

I legit might print this and hang it in my room. It really does reflect something we all need to recognise. Good job!

ur not alone bro,i will support u .

keep crashing !legnd

totally perfect