step 1. swim between the flags
step 2. find where the waves don’t break on you
step 3: lay in the ocean
step 4: arch you back
step 5: face towards the sky close your eyes
step 6: become only the feeling of movement. have mind empty of image. you are only the feeling of turbulence, united with the waves.
Oh, to float on the water all day… be tickled by the breeze, bob up and down with the waves, maybe spot some aquatic wildlife, be a perch for gulls and such, a napping spot for some seals… what a life
Sometimes I recommend being a hater. I’m not here to talk about the numerous quality uses of AI, how often it is actually used nor am I here to critique AI without strawmanning it. I don’t care if I strawman an account of AI because I genuinely despise the way most people use AI. I think AI generated images are ugly. I think that AI cannot hold a half decent conversation. I’m completely avoidant when it comes to showing AI my writing; I’ve never done it and I refuse to. I hate when you go to that one poetry website and there is AI “analysis” there, because its not real textual analysis and it upholds a certain contextualised intentionalist framework of reading a text reinforced in high school English. I hate that the meta AI will influence what products will be advertised to you. I don’t care if it’s the future. I genuinely love being called a dinosaur because I hate AI.
When we let go of the fear we hold towards the smallest creatures of our environment, and learn how to immerse ourself in an instance of nature rather than making an instance of nature our own, we learn to truly be alive. Bugs are great because you can’t own them, but you can admire their beauty. #bugnation2024