@marmo.eth
love this
absolutely beautiful
raw
real
and so many more
superlative words
(and it's so much better
because i can imagine
you speaking it)
the soul
does not get nearly enough
air time / screen time
it gets thrown in a box
with religion
which is a path
but not the only path
to the soul
emerson did his part
his over-soul is a good
essay to pick up
https://emersoncentral.com/ebook/The-Over-Soul.pdf
every now and again
but one must also remember
that he's a voice-first brand
one must remember
to imagine him speaking
to a congregation of sorts
doing his own form of
long form video
teachers tend to do an awful
job of teaching voice-first
figures throughout history
socrates, emerson,
shakespeare, etc.
they dwell on the
words themselves
and obscure what's
beyond words
reducing those vocal spirits
to static letters on a page
amounts to an epic
excision of the soul
imagine teaching
this text without the
benefit of any
music
I got it
Watch me I got it
HEY
I got somethin'
that makes me
wanna shout
I got somethin' that
tells me what it's all about
Huh, I got soul
and I'm super bad
… I've got soul
and I'm super bad
so you can't blame
the teachers that
are always so desperate
to get us to the point
at the end of the
question mark
any more than you can
blame social media for
not being soul-cial media
this incantation
revelation
business
this vocal business
goes down about
as easy as a half
1000mg tylenol
with a halva chaser
this stuff sounds insane
illogical
like magical thinking
like mysticism
there's no google
translate that
spells it out in
simple logical
language and
assigns simple
addictive point
values for leaderboards
and tips and
airdrops
it's not quantifiable
at at time when
"not quantifiable"
sounds synonymous
with "not real"
soul-less-ness
begins with the
belief that there
is nothing that
cannot be
measured
the saddest part
is that at some point
we started
thinking
about
all the ways
we're different
and stopped
thinking and
(more importantly)
talking and
singing about
all the ways
we are
ONE
not sure what
to do about it
but i suspect
the answer
has more to do
with voice and
music and
poetry than
static prose
(thaw it down
was one of my first
ai music projects
i imagined
in those early
days of suno
that when
performed
there would be
this great big ice
sculpture
(how spinal tap
is that?)
representing
all the hardness
and everyone
in the audience
would use these
great big
blow torches
to thaw it all
down)
https://suno.com/playlist/e8ec881d-9574-497b-910b-238858d42ad7