"The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink."

look, i dont mean to be all "literally 1984" but this is literally a thing that happens on the book nineteen eighty four

• “Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”

  -pythagoras



• "Vows are spoken
  To be broken
  Feelings are intense
  Words are trivial
  Pleasures remain
  So does the pain
  Words are meaningless
  And forgettable"

  -martin gore



• "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."

  -blaise pascal



• “Never miss a good chance to shut up.”

  -will rogers



• "The silence is above everything, I'd rather hear one note than I would two, and I would rather hear silence than I would hear one note."

  -mark hollis



• "Better to be king of your silence than slave of your words."

  -william shakespeare

• “it's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.”

  -miles davis



• “Music is a world within itself
  With a language we all understand.”

  -stevie wonder



• “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”

  -anonymous



• “music is liquid architecture. architecture is frozen music.”

  -johann wolfgang von goethe

john coltrane who was, in my opinion, the greatest mind in the history of jazz, also happened to be a deeply wise, bright, strong-rooted person in general. he had so much to say that he deserves a section all of his own.

• “all men know the truth”




• “You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.”




• “I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I’m doing… the emotional reaction is all that matters. As long as there’s some feeling of communication, it isn’t necessary that it be understood.”




• "Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist. It is music."




• “He was only really concerned about playing his music and growing as a musician, that’s all he thought about. He couldn’t be seduced by a woman’s beauty because he had already been seduced by the beauty of music, and he was loyal to his wife. Whereas for me, after the music was through, I was out the door seeing what pretty lady I was going to be with that night.”

  -miles davis on coltrane

Coltrane was playing in organist Jimmy Smith’s group at the end of summer 1955 when a call came from New York City to audition for trumpeter Miles Davis’s band. Despite Coltrane’s initial uncertainty—“I am quite ashamed of those early records I made with Miles. Why he picked me, I don’t know”, he later said—Miles liked what he heard. “After we started playing together for a while, I knew that this guy was a bad motherfucker,” Davis wrote in his autobiography. (source)

i don't particularly like sh0eonhead, but this critique by big joel, who i really respect, isn't really about her specifically. it's more about a problem i've also been noticing spreading through the internet in the post-digital age. thought-terminating clichés, negligence in fact-checking, echo-chambering, they're all very scary signs of a society that does not see the value in seeking out actual information or learning anymore. we should be wary of this sort of stuff in the coming years. very uncool so make sure to check this out

here's a really cool essay i found that encapsulates my feelings on one of the greatest musical genres of all time and actually opened my mind a little bit, showed me a few things i didn't know before. free jazz is an amazing form of music tied to the deepest, simplest human instincts and the heart of music itself, which is why it lends itself well to so many other genres. it's something everybody should be educated on, and this video does a really good job at that! go check it out

there are more glorious goals than instant gratification
there are more dignified ways to live than chasing the next transient pleasure, the next fleeting trend, the next ephemeral climax.
there are more merciful ways to treat yourself than as nothing more than a slave to the comings and goings of life. isn't it high time you seized control of your own destiny?
the goal of life is not to reach the best, most extravagant, stimulating orgasm possible, be it sexual or just straight out of a screen.
you have no obligation to sit generously like a grateful little sheep, waiting to be spoonfed your purpose in life, today's hottest leaked celebrity nudes, today's coolest fad or today's most doom-mongering news from across the world.

why not just ride that high till the end? stick around for the long run. take it easy, take it slow. let some of your time be nothing, instead of something. eat a salad, drink some more water. breathe some fresh air. you're going to be okay

i'm gonna be honest, i've maybe heard about pinely's channel sometime before? i'm not really sure. but this is a beautifully put piece that expresses most of my plight with the dismal current web3 state of google as a search engine, which i honestly got so used to that i didn't even remember the way it used to be before. lobotomized boiled frog style.

welcome!!!! to the one and only fag corner, where i will be sharing lgbtq+ related content that i found really interesting or i think deserves more attention:)

look, even if many people can seem like they don't actually want to change their minds and only want to hear what they already know, i still wholeheartedly believe in avoiding echo-chambers and fostering healthy dialogue. to that end, it is everybody's responsability to be well informed about what exactly it is that we're defending so vehemently, and why. as sufficient as i believe the feeling can be, the concept of transgender identity goes much, much deeper than just "live and let live". it's a self-evident scientific fact that has been covered up by centuries of intentional propaganda, closemindedness, self-delusion, and religious bias.

it would be very bad rep for them if fucking grindr themselves made bad lgbt related content, but i think their series where they contrast the culture of older generations of lgbt people with the current culture is really interesting and puts things under a very welcome new light. these old faggots do a great job at flipping off conservative pussies and it's really inspiring. i like how impressed the narrator seems at the end like "you made it!!!!" bitch i made it through the 60s you think i won't make it through a youtube comment section

there's also this really cool channel by a trans girl called icky who talks about like trans lady issues and common topics and such and i love her personality i wanted to embed it in a cool way but let's face it i am far too lazy and stupid to do that so jsut go check her out

revengeseekerz, which is probably my 2025 aoty so far and about which i wrote a longer review you can check out right here, was made by incredible digicore genius jane remover who is trans! and awesome please lsiten to it i beg you it's an actual amsterpiece i'm seroious ple

nevermind one of the best youtube channels: jacob geller is easily among the greatest, most important content creators of this century. seriously. i don't know how many of his videos have at some point completely altered my way of seeing the world, art, philosophy, politics and whatever else he feels like turning into this month's god-tier piece of media analysis, but there's not enough praise i can pour onto his channel for it.

this video essay perfectly encapsulates how i feel about modern, experimental and avant-garde art, and how much i fucking despise zero brain activity morons who turn off their brains and go "oh!!! it's not an ancient greek statue of a naked 14 year old boy!!! not le real art!!!" and precisely the reasons why. do yourself a favor and subscribe to jacob geller if you haven't already.

i very often rave about the current state of communications, social media, algorithms and whatnot. like far too often. obsessively often. but that's only because it's something very real that we could have avoided if we'd only paid attention sooner. the signs were right there, twenty years ago. shit, not only were they right there, they had been there long enough for people to start noticing, and have enough time to respond and make criticisms against it. we didn't need to fulfill the dystopian prophecy. it just so happens that here we are today.

max derrat's analysis, inspired by Logossteve, of the lifechanging metal gear solid 2 ending conversation (SPOILERS!!!!!!) is a landmark in youtube essay history and i have literally zero way of building on it so just go watch it and be mindblown at how ungodly ahead of his time hideo kojima's commentary was on technology, artificial intelligence, information, communications, free will, and much more.

actually DON'T do that at all, if you haven't played mgs2 go play it, NOW?????? it's one of the greatest videogames in history what are you DOING. but yeah if you've played it definitely watch max's amazing commentary on it

technology connections is a channel i have nothing but respect for. alec watson, the guy that runs it, is a very knowledgeable, funny, charismatic person who makes incredibly high quality content i sometimes can't believe is free, just right there for everyone. it's a beautiful channel for old farts with a kink for old, obsolete electronics and the related physical phenomena. which includes me, of course. a couple days ago, though, it seems they hopped onto the beautiful bandwagon that is the war against the modern day web, the algorithms, the ai's and you know the rest. something something, his best video is the one where he rebels against the talking point of his entire career, etc. etc.

i always love seeing this topic gain more traction, and i find alec's points to be inspiring and elegantly put. i think it's the responsability of big channels like this to speak out against what i honestly consider to be a very boring but very real dystopia. go ahead and watch the whole thing, as well as technology connection's channel which is, again, full of amazing, funny, interesting, informative content completely for free