October 18th, 2009 / 7:47 pm
Snippets
Snippets
Blake Butler—
There is a difference between trying hard and trying too hard. And, obviously, the difference between trying and doing.
do or do not. there is no try.
do or do not. there is no try.
The question here is whether you are qualifying “trying” in relation to the capitalist system’s assault on creative labor, presently (and almost always) in favor of the affluent, against the idiosyncratic (and often poor) innovators, and very much interesting in diminishing exciting souls into dreary oblivion. One should work hard, largely by devoting diligence to daily doing. There is some value in overthinking. There is also some value in underthinking. There is also great value in relaxing, for one cannot toil all the time (e.g., the Archimedes principle). Ultimately what matters is a scenario in which individuals can be individuals, and creative labor is recognized by what one does and is also devoted to how much one advances in the act of doing. If a person cannot stop the giddy demon inside from expressing or formulating, and the giddy demon does not (for the most part) harm other people and indeed contributes interesting things to society (society not necessarily measured by a majority), then this is something that must be encouraged by an open-minded and libertine society. But if one is obliged to pay oppressive taxes, and there is no choice in the matter (see freelance quarterly taxes for one such pratfall), then it seems to me that the government should give something back, encouraging and/or financing this variegated spectrum of souls — the basis for a healthy society that does rather than tries.
The question here is whether you are qualifying “trying” in relation to the capitalist system’s assault on creative labor, presently (and almost always) in favor of the affluent, against the idiosyncratic (and often poor) innovators, and very much interesting in diminishing exciting souls into dreary oblivion. One should work hard, largely by devoting diligence to daily doing. There is some value in overthinking. There is also some value in underthinking. There is also great value in relaxing, for one cannot toil all the time (e.g., the Archimedes principle). Ultimately what matters is a scenario in which individuals can be individuals, and creative labor is recognized by what one does and is also devoted to how much one advances in the act of doing. If a person cannot stop the giddy demon inside from expressing or formulating, and the giddy demon does not (for the most part) harm other people and indeed contributes interesting things to society (society not necessarily measured by a majority), then this is something that must be encouraged by an open-minded and libertine society. But if one is obliged to pay oppressive taxes, and there is no choice in the matter (see freelance quarterly taxes for one such pratfall), then it seems to me that the government should give something back, encouraging and/or financing this variegated spectrum of souls — the basis for a healthy society that does rather than tries.
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Every time I see you say something like this I think, oh fuck, I have to do better. Or Blake Butler will think I’m a chump.
Every time I see you say something like this I think, oh fuck, I have to do better. Or Blake Butler will think I’m a chump.
haha. love u brandi.
haha. love u brandi.
No.
No.