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Who am I?
I am Elsewhom
I am a philosopher who wants to fix our broken world. I have a fancy degree and no money, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is helping people and mending a broken system. When your car is broken you call a mechanic. The problems in our world all stem from broken, inconsistent, and harmful ideology. That is something only philosophers can fix. I do not fashion myself as a savior, or hero, but merely the herald of a broader philosophical movement which has already begun. It is you who must become the hero.
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The Aesthetics of this Website…
The Aesthetic of this Website is a rebellion against the harsh and oppressive minimalism which has overtaken so much of modern media. I Have purposely designed this website with loud and vibrant colors, bold shapes, and swooping gradients in a statement against minimalist hegemony. The design aesthetic of the main page draws from many different aesthetic movements such as Frutiger Metro, Cyberpunk, Vaporwave, Spacecore, Dreampunk, New Age, Retrofuturism, Raygun Gothic, as well as Old 1990s Web Aesthetics among others.
In using these Aesthetics, I seek to critique the past as well as the present. Our past dreams of great Sci-Fi Utopias have given way to visions of dark dystopian techno-oppression. Minimalism began as a vision of a sleek, shiny, and mysterious new future where the raw features of technology were hidden so nobody could see its inner workings. This development in futuristic aesthetic was because technology had become so complicated that most average people didn’t (and still don’t) even understand how it works anyway. We wrote this into our visions of the future, where technology was so advanced that it no longer had visible moving parts, but was made up of sleek minimalist shapes that simply did whatever we wanted without us ever understanding how they worked, as though they were magic. This minimalist design movement of sleek featureless exteriors and hidden inner workings has become the dominant force in both the tech industry and in every other aspect of our society, from interior design to fashion and architecture.
In challenging Minimalism, I do not seek to simply break it down and introduce Maximalism. Rather I seek to promote a new aesthetic which both rediscovers the inner workings of our technology, but also asks the question, “what do we really want? What actually makes us feel comfortable?”
If we imagine that we are living on a spaceship for many years, headed toward some distant unknown destination, these are the two constraints we would find ourselves faced with. The inner workings of the spaceship would need to be understood well enough, and accessible enough by its crew in order to properly maintain it throughout this long voyage. However, it would also need to be as comfortable as possible in order to ensure good morale and psychological stability among the crew. These are the pragmatic forces that drive my Aesthetic. I see the same constraints and challenges in modern society, as I do in the example of the spaceship. I would not want to travel the stars in a minimalist spaceship in which I could not access the hardware or perform proper maintenance, and which was cold and uncomfortable in a way which would set both myself and my crew into psychological instability. Thus, I challenge modern society to perform two important modifications to their aesthetics: First, to make the underlying structure of things accessible, and second, to make the surface level of things more psychologically comforting. With these two goals in mind, I have designed this website to be a statement of rebellion against modern Minimalist Aesthetics, and thus I have begun the journey to prepare humanity for that day when it will actually traverse the stars.
Six Short Poems to Describe Me:
Sunflowers and Roses
Sunflowers and Roses
A gift that proposes
A serious kind of engagement
In a silly, not so serious,
Arrangement
The Secret of Art
The secret of Art
Is simply put:
The secret itself
And a mouth full of foot
Federal Education
The "ed" in "Federal"
stands for "Education"
because without it you just get:
"Feral"
Mournought Asymptote
Progress is enough
Do not Mourn Infinity
But Bask in Better
Schrödinger’s Society
Society is found strongest
In the common household under observation
and weakest in
The common household unobserved
One-Way, Dead-End
Life is a one-way dead-end road
So make sure to stop at every house
On your way down it.
-Poems by Me! Elsewhom!
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“…TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME… SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
‘Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—’
MY POINT EXACTLY.
…YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN’T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?”
– Terry Pratchett
The Hogfather
Woe to he who has no answer
For he is doomed to infinitely reflect.
Shame on he who knows the answer
For he shall always be incorrect.
Glory to him who knows nothing
But tries everything
And learns from retrospect.
– Elsewhom