MANIFESTO

Do you ever yearn and miss the wild west days of the internet? The days of when everything was still getting its footing and everything was a lot less sickeningly sanitised, without major corporations breathing down your neck and watching your every move.

Yeah, I really miss those days. I was but a wee lad, playing any and all pet sims I could get my hands on; a young man who hadn't been shadowed in a suffocating layer of cynicism quite yet.

I aim to push back against the standardisation and mass conformity established by this current era of the world wide web. This website is an untethered and utterly unfiltered reflection of myself, warts and all. I'll be embracing the messiness of the framework of the Internet that I grew up perusing and utilising. I also aim to encourage everyone else to do the same and indulge in the most personal, rawest, and truest state of oneself. I desire to accomplish expressing a version of myself that is unabashedly myself for all to see, sparking my peers and all else that bore witness to do the very same. The modern state of things as we presently see it currently has us under the constant eye of corporations and brands and the ilk, expected to be on nothing but our most censored self as to maintain this very plain and inoffensive image to endlessly push ads and products towards. In the eyes of these entities, we are but numbers and consumers, not really people. This stifles any and all individuality that comes from the unique self expression we can engage in as people. We are messy, it's only natural. Perfection is a false ideal that none can truly attain and we merely find ourselves destroying ourselves to reach it. Well no more! Stay messy, push against this squeaky clean image we're pushed into!

Similarly, technology is evergrowing and changing. New tech is constantly on the horizon and while this can be exciting, this also can prove to backfire, due to major tech companies continually engaging and pepetuating this cycle of planned obsolescence, forcing us to consume the newest product. Don't feel the need to drop your current perfectly functional device for the newest model just because Apple or Microsoft or Google tells you that you have to. On this note, learning how to repair your devices is a very useful skill, especially if you aren't the sort who wants to add to the massive e-waste issue at hand.

While experiencing a deep nostalgia for the internet of the 2000s, I do want to foster a kind environment. I believe humanity should choose to be kind above all else. We, as a species, are a social animal and constantly being at one another's throats gets us nowhere in our quest for progress. This isn't to say one must abstain from being firm when setting personal boundaries, just that one should not be needlessly cruel. This is to say: talk shit, get hit but other be excellent to each other and party on, dudes.