Schismo-geneses: Politics, Wellness, and Sales

(as of now this is a draft that is useful to me, but I don't think will help you at all, and I'd advise against reading it.)

"There are two ways to call someone an asshole, and one of them they'll thank you for it."

Sometimes things get defined by being distinguished from other things. Sometimes things get created in opposition. Schismogenesis it's called. 

If you've read some of these other pages you've encountered various other play genres and my strategies for stealing from them. It has been about taking from them, without being them, but it also hasn't been about explicitly not being them. Whatever game adaptations haven't been made in opposition hasn't been defined and shaped against them. I'm very reluctant to move forward by moving against. I'm never against moving forward, and ultimately moving forward by moving against something is not different than any other strategy. There are costs to it though. 

Politics, wellness, and sales. I will have none of these. 

This little project has no statements. It isn't built to help you overcome anything. There is no buy in. 

Eventually I suppose I'll need to figure out a way to monetize this. Maybe it can become a class or a series or some cumulative performance. Eventually... I suppose. I had a vision and have an intuition, but still barely understand these things, let alone how they could give me this day my daily bread. I don't like poverty. I don't like opulence. I don't like pretending that my poverty isn't my fault, nor that my opulence isn't. I don't want to be healed. I don't want the pain of being a daily human to go away, of being a centuries long human to go away, of being alive and confused, without any real reason for being alive other than that a lot of alive things before me were alive... I don't want this to go away. 

I don't want this little project to make you to believe anything. I don't want it to make you more just. I don't want you to help the world more because of it. I want to teach you to be a better human. In general, of course I would wish for these these things for you, and of course I wouldn't wish for you to believe nothing, or be lest just, or less helpful, or a worse human. But this isn't built to make you believe harder, justify more truly, help more beautifully, human better. This isn't about that.

And I don't mean to be cynical, but I'm skeptical about things that are about these things. 

I have more to say about this, but want to be careful. Politics, wellness, and sales are tough spaces, not only for engagement but also for disengagement. I've been having more pronounced encounters with them lately, but still working on my own pronunciation. 

One thing about refusing politics is that it does help me define this space better. Schismogenesis- creation by distinguishing from another thing. This project isn't 

The only real principle I have is about a retreat to autonomy, which I'm still working on articulating succinctly. The main pretend principle I have is this: rule number 1: always look cool; rule number 2: don't get lost, but if you do, see rule number 1.