Notices by 🇪🇷Götterdämmerung (gotterdammerung@glitch.social)

But internally, think like a heretic, move like a thief, & remember boldness isn't just a choice. It's the only weapon worth carrying. Every day, I relearn this or die a little.

That distance, that disloyalty to the mob, lets me spot the lies they all swallow w/o question.
Bold moves work. Every time I gamble with action over hesitation, results crash in faster than my own chicken-hearted imagination ever predicted. The catastrophe scenarios my mind conjures are cheap horror stories compared to reality. Lesson learned. Be agreeable only when it's tactical, when camouflage is survival.

#DailyLaws April 25
Enter Action with Boldness
Timidity isn't natural. It's hammered into us by this neutered democracy of "getting along to get along" where mediocrity gets a gold star just for showing up. It's the slow polite death of creativity. The more agreeable I become, the less I actually think, the less I live.

So I shove myself the other way: hunting heresy, courting the freaks, seeing the world through the cracked lenses no one else dares to wear.

#DailyLaws March 13
Creative Endurance
The mind doesn't work in isolation. Creative endurance is physical endurance. I've felt that first hand when I was sketching at a breakneck pace, I was also moving. Walking everywhere, pounding pavement out of necessity, burning through energy but somehow making more of it. No car, just momentum. My body kept up, so my creativity did too.

Now? Not the same. The stamina's faded. The long hours at the desk feel heavier.

So weekends mean walking again, short bursts of exercise. But that's not enough. If I want to meet the deadlines coming, I need to ramp up, train like I used to, push past the slump. Creative work is a marathon & right now, I'm out of shape. Time to fix that.

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 clicks?

This thread will be the counterpart to #Slop, a manifesto if you will: Aesthetics of Grit

https://substack.com/@tedgioia/p-157570568

PERMATIRED (adj.) the natural state of existence in a world where rest is a myth, work is a cult, & your soul is on back order.

#Permatired
#PermantlyExhausted
#HeterodoxDictionary

#DailyLaws February 14
Move Towards Resistance
I never saw it back then but my approach to drawing was all wrong I skipped the pencil work: no structure, no foundation. Just straight to ink, trying to force a finished product out of something I didn't even build. No composition, no vanishing points, no thought to light sources or form. My skills warped around that shortcut, leaving entire areas underdeveloped.

The shift came when I stopped lying to myself.

Stopped calling half-baked work good enough. I became my own harshest critic, forcing myself to break things down to roughs, to think in 3D before committing to ink. That's where the real discipline of drawing is. The part most people avoid. The perverse satisfaction of working past frustration.

Then something clicked. I could draw anywhere, any time, under any conditions. Public, private, chaos, silence. Didn't matter. The focus locked in & the results came fast.

Because real progress doesn't happen when you play to your strengths. It happens when you drag your weaknesses into the light & refuse to look away.

@ErickaSimone love this.

These identities assumes whiteness operates on a spectrum, from the unapologetically dominant to the active dismantler. Goes from
1. Architect
2. Bystander
3. Polished defender of "equality"
4. Quiet beneficiary
5. Performative Ally
6. Interrogator
7. Saboteur
8. Endgame

White Traitor: the turncoat who calls out the system, shatters the silence & works to undermine white authority from the inside out. No half-measures, no safe bets. Just raw truth-telling & sabotage with no regard for personal cost. These are the ones needed to tear down the institutions that built the regime.

#WhiteTraitor
#turncoat #benedict #truthteller

White Abolitionist: the relentless dismantler, tearing down whiteness at its roots & reshaping institutions so it cannot claw its way back. No compromise, no half-hearted reforms. Just the complete & permanent undoing of the system.

#WhiteAbolitionist
#Anarchist #VforVendetta

Which Whitey are you?
The 8 White Identities* improved

White Supremacist: A blatantly rigged game where white society crowns itself king, scripts the rules & stacks the deck to ensure its superiority stays carved in stone.

#Whiteness
#WhiteSupremacist

*apologies to Barnor Hesse

White Voyeurism: the passive spectator who won't dare confront White Supremacy but leans in for the spectacle. Craving non-whiteness as entertainment, they consume it for pleasure, fascination or trend-chasing while keeping a safe distance from the struggles & scars it carries. It's the thrill of sampling Black culture w/o ever wearing the weight of Blackness.

#WhiteVoyeurism
#Blackness
#clout

White Privilege: the polished veneer of "fairness" & "equality" draped over an unshakable commitment to whiteness as the default setting. Might critique Supremacy in whispers, but only to protect its own image. Holy Grail is diversity, as long the rules, the rulers & the stage remains comfortably white.

#WhitePrivilege
#fairness #equality
#diversity

White Confessional: the performative soul-baring of whiteness, where admissions of privilege or bias are served up to POC like offerings at an altar. It's less about accountability & more about fishing for absolution or a pat on the back for "doing the work."

#WhiteConfessional
#performativity

White Critical: whiteness turning the mirror on itself, pulling apart the machinery of its own dominance. It's an active rejection of complicity, exposing the white regime for what it is & refusing to stay silent. Whiteness speaking to whiteness, not for a medal but to dismantle the game it once played.

#WhiteCritical
#criticism #criticalthinking

@sapphire They taught you to fit neatly into time slots, to digest the palatable, discard the challenging & call it education. But coddling? No, that wasn't coddling. That was training you to mistake the bare minimum for good enough.
Unlearning is a brutal process, & where the real education starts, after you realize those lesson plans were more about compliance than curiosity.

Keep going.
The syllabus only gets messier from here.

Perfection is a silk noose & I know way too many hanging lifeless from it. They've allowed "perfect" to strangle "good" before it even took its first breath. Their excuses pile up endlessly:
I'm too busy
I'm burned out
It's not the right time
They wear burnout & overwhelm like badges of honor, proof of a noble struggle. But peel back the layers of self-pity & you'll find one thing.

Fear.

From: @Gotterdammerung
https://glitch.social/@Gotterdammerung/113839512661998255