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Graphic Novelist / blogs at http://www.hyperboreans.com/heterodoxia / Get Pantheon at https://www.amazon.com/Pantheon-Heterotopia-1-Awet-Moges/dp/1944854045/ [bridged from https://glitch.social/@Gotterdammerung on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Ted Gioia's "Aesthetics of Slop" is a takedown of modern culture's love affair with half assed disposable junk. Art, music, literature, once the domains of skill & effort, have been overrun by laziness masquerading as authenticity. Why polish your craft when algo driven mediocrity gets more […]

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Yesterday, I had the honor of joining the great Antoine Hunter on #DeafWoke A space where Deaf brilliance, resilience & truth take center stage. We dug into identity, accessibility & the power of storytelling in a world that too often refuses to listen. It was more than a conversation. it was […]

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#DailyLaws March 1st Awaken the Dimensional Mind My attitude is the foundation. Let it rot into anxiety & insecurity, I will shrink, retreat, play it safe. Trapped in repetition, regurgitating the same old tricks. That is death. Instead I need to push outwards, tear through the limits of what […]

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#DailyLaws March Master at Work Writing & drawing are my peak states. When my mind is dialed in, synapses firing, creativity flooding in like a monsoon. The second I stop the rust sets in. Skills atrophy. The muscle of mastery shrivels. I cannot let that happen. Pantheon was my crucible. The […]

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#DailyLaws Feb 29 Hacker Approach I've always leaned into the hacker mindset, but in my own way. It's all about stacking skills like a survivalist hoarding supplies for the apocalypse. I wasn't just some artist sketching comic book panels. I was a writer, a tech junkie, a hardware surgeon […]

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#DailyLaws Feb 28 To the Master Goes the Knife Every master is a rung on the ladder. Necessary but never the destination. My mentors in philosophy & comics laid out the blueprint, the high-water mark of what could be done. I won't claim to have surpassed them but I studied how they build their […]

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Rauch's article on Atlantic claims that Dump is no classic authoritarian due to #patrimonialism: a system where the state is run like a personal fiefdom, loyalty trumps competence & corruption isn't a flaw but the entire OS. He's right about the chaos but misses the mark about the label […]

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BROLIGARCHY (n.) A regime where power is concentrated in the hands of tech bros. Those hoodie clad, VC funded, disruptor deities who mistake arrogance for genius & monopoly for meritocracy. Beneath the veneer of innovation, it is an oligarchy of algorithmic overlords, governing with the divine […]

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#DailyLaws Feb 26 Venture Outside Your Comfort Zone When I started drawing & writing Pantheon, I wasn't ready. Not even close. But I had to shut up & start. No more promises, no more speculative brilliance, no more excuses. I saw it all the time in others, the endless circling, the waiting for […]

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Come to think of it. Are we undergoing a new paradigm shift today in contemporary society? All signs point to yes. But not in the enlightened Kuhnian sense where we break free from outdated dogmas. No, our #paradigmshift is more like a slow motion car crash into collective insanity. We are […]

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Yesterday, I was lecturing on Deaf education. Specifically the ever evolving ways society has tried & mostly failed to teach the Deaf throughout American history. Halfway through unpacking the shift from oralism, I casually dropped #paradigmshift. Then I stopped & asked if anyone knew what that […]

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#DailyLaws Feb 25 Keep Expanding Your Horizons Born Deaf. Immigrant. Refugee from civil war. Three strikes & I should have been out before I even started. But my family was the slingshot & I was the stone. They gave me enough pull to launch & the rest? That was on me. I didn't just shatter […]

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#DailyLaws Feb 24 Surpass Your Master My masters are titans of philosophy like Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Cioran & in comics, legends like Walt Simonson & John Byrne. I didn't just admire them. I dissected them. Followed their ideas, their styles, tested them in the wild (discussion boards […]

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#DeathGround or Decay I'm back at the edge again. This strategy, create a sense of urgency, isn't whispering. It's grabbing my collar, shaking me awake. My old best friend is gone & time that merciless bastard just reminded me that it's moving. With or without me. The fire dimmed. Comfort […]

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#DailyLaws Feb 22 Absorb Purposeful Energy Took me too long to admit I couldn't do it all. That I was no lone genius, grinding away in some vacuum. Had to choke down my own ego, spit out the pride & accept that other people, real flawed frustrating people had skills that I lacked. I could write […]

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Back in the late 2000s, my old buddy once said that #genre is just a shelf at Blockbuster. What's the 2025 equivalent? Genre is just a row on your Netflix homepage A brilliant act of demystification cutting through the illusion that genre is some rigid, sacred literary law. It aint. It's […]

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#DailyLaws Feb 20 How the Brain Works I cheated the process. Thought I could sidestep the grind, hack my way to mastery like some punk with a cheat code. Ink before pencil. Tracing before sketching. Mimicking voices instead of developing my own. For a while it felt like progress until I hit a […]

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