Friday, December 6, 2024

Unity, Merit and Exceptionalism

Star Wars and Star Trek and Harry Potter and even The Lord of the Rings are turned into crap… and I don’t care. I write and illustrate my own fiction. I can’t match the production value of these franchises, but the stupidity that controls them assures that my work is better regardless.

Capitalism broke my back and left me to rot… so I have no love for capitalism. On the contrary. Marxism is the socialism of the rich, so I am not a Marxist either.

As of today, December 6, 2024, I am free to share what I write and illustrate with the world. I can even sell it. I am sincerely grateful. It is something that makes capitalism better than socialism… until the capitalists take it away from me, one way or another.

I am a white, heterosexual and male gentile, as were most people who wrote the best fiction and rendered the best art. I am being replaced by diversity hires that cannot make anything interesting no matter the budget allotted them. I shall inevitably outlast my replacements.

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4 comments:

  1. Quality cannot be easily ignored. Like light, it shines in the deepest of darkness. Things may fall apart all around, but it still tends to endure.

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    1. The past is remembered better than how it was because the quality is remembered while most all else is forgotten.

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  2. I too enjoy doing my own thing my way.

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    1. When our mainstream favorites disappoint us, too bad, so sad. When we are disappointed with our own work, that just means we're not finished yet.

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