[HN Gopher] It's not what the world needs right now
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It's not what the world needs right now
Author : cribbles
Score : 144 points
Date : 2024-04-07 07:56 UTC (15 hours ago)
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| scotty79 wrote:
| The world needs room temperature superconductors, yet here we
| are.
| antfarm wrote:
| The world needs _less_. Of everything.
| lukan wrote:
| Less comments?
| geerlingguy wrote:
| Fewer.
| gabesullice wrote:
| Indeed.
| antfarm wrote:
| Fewer snarky comments like yours maybe.
|
| I believe we won't solve humanty's pressing problems with
| more of the same.
|
| We need more love and understanding for sure.
| lukan wrote:
| Well, your comment literally said, "less of everything"
|
| " more love and understanding"
|
| Was not mentioned.
|
| So I am not sure how your first comment could help, to
| make the world a better place.
|
| "we won't solve humanty's pressinge problems with more of
| the same."
|
| And generic statements like these maybe neither.
|
| Because when people are hungry(many are), yes they need
| more food. More of the same.
|
| But your comment implies there are also maybe too many
| people anyway?
|
| So rather less food and then eventually less people? But
| still more of love and understanding?
|
| Or maybe it all just ain't that simple?
| antfarm wrote:
| _The world needs room temperature superconductors, yet
| here we are._
|
| May I ask how room temperature superconductors make the
| world a better place or help fighting hunger?
|
| And what do room temperature superconductors have to do
| with art?
| antfarm wrote:
| Oh, and less food waste and global inequality definitely
| cures hunger better than room temparature
| superconductors.
| lukan wrote:
| Many many applications.
|
| But cheap highspeed trains (floating on magnetic fields)
| come to mind as a means of easy transporation around the
| world.
| antfarm wrote:
| _But your comment implies there are also maybe too many
| people anyway? So rather less food and then eventually
| less people?_
|
| Those are your ideas, I never even meant to imply them.
| noobermin wrote:
| What are you blaming him for? How is this one starving artist
| holding the world back from room temperature superconductors?
| Zetobal wrote:
| Yikes.
| jack_riminton wrote:
| I don't think there's a direct correlation between commercial and
| artistic value. But there has to come a point where people who
| create this kind of stuff realise they're not Van Gogh. Top
| points for edginess though, I guess
| thorum wrote:
| Someone probably said the same thing to Van Gogh during his
| life.
| adamtaylor_13 wrote:
| Just because he beat the odds, doesn't mean their advice was
| wrong.
| dclowd9901 wrote:
| Their advice wasn't wrong. He never enjoyed any of the
| success or fame he has now. Not even a fraction of it.
|
| The world was lucky to have Van Gogh, but Van Gogh was very
| unlucky to have this world.
| dentemple wrote:
| Nearly everyone said the same thing to Van Gogh during his
| life. He was only recognized for his artwork after his death.
| animal_spirits wrote:
| That's not quite true. Yes people cared less about his art
| while he was alive, but that was because of his erratic
| behavior. There was no doubt that the people surrounding
| him found his art beautiful, especially In his later years
| when he was staying at the clinics
| IshKebab wrote:
| Van Gogh wasn't Van Gogh. If by "Van Gogh" you mean "had the
| rare combination of skill and luck to be a successful artist
| within his lifetime".
| underlipton wrote:
| Someone told Van Gogh that he wasn't Van Gogh? No wonder he
| went crazy, that's some hardcore gaslighting.
| simmerup wrote:
| An essay of 'you don't ask, you don't get'
| CPLX wrote:
| This is excellent, worth reading all the way through.
|
| The fact that his character is completely insufferable is, of
| course, the point.
| codingdave wrote:
| The question I have not yet seen in the comments here is whether
| or not this post is real or fiction. Is it the journal of a
| questionable character, or a deliberate attempt to push people's
| buttons?
|
| And honestly, that is why I like it. I really hope it cannot be
| taken at face value - that would be disappointment.
| karaterobot wrote:
| I don't see anything about a movie called _Interlaken_ being
| developed. On IMDB, I do see an Andrew Norman Wilson as the
| director of the short films he mentions in the article.
|
| Who knows about the individual details in it. I'm sure it's
| sort of directionally true. It's believable at any rate.
| rightbyte wrote:
| It seems like some art student guy's journey leveling up from
| food coupon couch surfing to movie director. Dunno if real or
| not or what the point is. Feels like trolling to piss people
| off?
| api wrote:
| It was posted. It got attention. Someone may remember his
| name. Mission accomplished.
| NoboruWataya wrote:
| Kinda gives me Bukowski vibes, like if Hank Chinaski had gone
| to art school.
| tomcam wrote:
| When I think Bukowski, I think a Pasadena residence
| punctuated by visits to the Queen Mary
| badpun wrote:
| Chinaski was working for a living, this guy would rather
| cheat and steal, as he thinks labor is beneath him (he
| described a regular cleaner's job as "demeaning").
| gary_0 wrote:
| > Is it the journal of a questionable character, or a
| deliberate attempt to push people's buttons?
|
| Reminds me of some of Hunter S Thompson's writing (who always
| insisted his sordid semi-autobiographical tales were drawn
| directly from even more depraved true events).
| rootusrootus wrote:
| > whether or not this post is real or fiction
|
| Well, he has one other post on the same site that is explicitly
| marked fiction, where this one is not. That may be a clue.
| codingdave wrote:
| Maybe - this is clearly someone who enjoys blurring the line
| between reality and fiction, so a their tagging of their own
| work might be equally blurry.
| roughly wrote:
| > whether or not this post is real or fiction
|
| I suspect both, and I'd suspect the author's the sort who
| wouldn't stay in one category no matter the circumstances.
| doctorpangloss wrote:
| All the true stories you actually bother to read are a little
| fictive.
|
| That said, he said two specific relationships with real people
| that I know, by name, and you know what? He's telling it like
| it was in those cases.
|
| The least real thing about this is that, reading carefully, the
| only antagonists are the occasional grant committee members who
| reject him. To me, in real life, fine artists are quite
| opinionated and tend to beef with a lot of people; or have no
| opinions, and are pigeonholed into doing the same exact thing
| that once, long ago, got them an audience, over and over again.
| Andrew does not belong to this latter group.
| subjectsigma wrote:
| > A gallerist who wants to work with me says she can't add a
| white man to her roster.
|
| Pretty fucking disgusting that someone would openly say that to
| him.
| SoftTalker wrote:
| I know a man who manages a theatre and he is pretty honest
| about how difficult it is to work in that market as a straight
| white man these days.
| always2slow wrote:
| LOL - people have said shit like this to my face my whole life,
| including some CS admissions guy at CMU but he had the nerve to
| throw in a derogatory remark about ADD too. Just normal shit
| that happened in the 90's I guess.
| underlipton wrote:
| As a black man, I'd appreciate the lawsuit-opener over my
| reality, which is just people seeing my alma mater and name and
| pretending I don't exist.
| selimthegrim wrote:
| Is it that they don't think you're qualified to have gotten
| in there or it's an HBCU so they denigrate it?
| crawfordcomeaux wrote:
| Imagine writing something with such honesty & the people reading
| don't stop to reflect on how this is just one facet of how the
| systems they prop up push people into operating to survive. They
| just judge the person, as though they live in a vacuum.
| sandspar wrote:
| He lives this way intentionally. He could get a job as a UX
| designer at Staples.com whenever he wants.
| pavlov wrote:
| There's currently a surplus of designers with software
| industry experience, resumes full of business objectives
| achieved, and a finely honed ability to speak the soothing
| jargon of absolution that managers really want from UX.
| ("Yes, we can make users love this pop-up that you want to
| add. It's just a matter of applying design.")
|
| Why would a corporation deliberately hire a video artist and
| music video director instead?
| underlipton wrote:
| TBF corporations don't know what's good for them. When XR
| was all the rage, it was current (2D) UX designers getting
| jobs, instead of the 3D artists, sculptors, game designers,
| animators, and industrial designers who actually had the
| skills to make compelling spatial interactions, smart
| objects, and experiences (which there was not a surplus
| of). Then, the hype collapsed, and they fired everyone who
| couldn't program, thereby making the issue incalculably
| worse.
| swatcoder wrote:
| Honesty is not what the author is going for here. This is genre
| autofiction following a throughline of slumming, marginal
| artists that carries back through punk, beat, flapper, and la
| boheme writers.
|
| It's entertainment, not true confession or activism, and it
| delights in getting under the skin of squares who can't tell.
|
| No need to push back on the people reactively criticizing the
| character or writer -- that's the point.
| mycologos wrote:
| Deliberately making art that people think sucks seems like
| kind of a low bar?
| swatcoder wrote:
| Yeah, unless you can get the cool kids to think you're cool
| for doing it. _This_ kind of art is a social game, not an
| technical craft.
| hackable_sand wrote:
| We're meant to judge the character in the story, but the
| story might suck for some as well. I personally did a
| double take and skimmed the unimportant bits because I
| loathed the character.
|
| Imo the story could have easily been a piece of poetry and
| I would probably have enjoyed it more.
| NoboruWataya wrote:
| It don't think the aim was to write a piece that people
| think sucks, it was to write about a person who people
| think sucks. There is a difference, or at least there used
| to be: I feel like increasingly people are unable to
| separate the literary value of a piece from the moral value
| of its protagonist. This piece reminds me of Charles
| Bukowski's books about the "lowlife" Hank Chinaski. Another
| more extreme example of a good book with a shitty
| protagonist is _Lolita_ , which IMO couldn't be published
| today or Nabokov would be shunned and ostracised as a
| paedophile.
|
| (None of this is to say you need to like the blog post, you
| might hate it on its own merits, but I definitely think
| there are a lot of people here who think it's a bad piece
| because they disagree with the choices the protagonist
| makes, which I think is a very limiting view.)
| tomcam wrote:
| > It don't think the aim was to write a piece that people
| think sucks, it was to write about a person who people
| think sucks.
|
| You're right, and it's what edgy teenagers can do in
| their sleep, aka middle school math class. I would much
| prefer he created actual art (written or visual) I could
| care about.
| selimthegrim wrote:
| Disgrace got published and it wasn't much better from
| that standpoint
| badpun wrote:
| Did the system somehow forced this man to avoid working for a
| living?
| kouru225 wrote:
| "I ask a model what they would get paid for a shoot and propose
| $2,000 to Barney's. They reject my proposal and offer a $1,000
| gift card."
|
| Probably asked a woman model not a male model. Women get double
| what men get for modeling.
| adwi wrote:
| Not necessarily. Depends on the woman, depends on the man, and
| often on their reps.
|
| More likely because it was an advertorial, both for the brand
| and the "models".
|
| Fun read.
| sandspar wrote:
| It's not a lifestyle I'd want to emulate. The author/character
| does seem to have some kind of moral code, at least. From my
| reading, it seems like he's OK with harming the "haves" but I
| didn't notice him harming any "have nots". I'd guess he's Chaotic
| Neutral alignment. From easydamus.com: "People who are neutral
| with respect to good and evil have compunctions against killing
| the innocent but lack the commitment to make sacrifices to
| protect or help others. Neutral people are committed to others by
| personal relationships... Chaotic characters follow their
| consciences, resent being told what to do, favor new ideas over
| tradition, and do what they promise if they feel like it."
| underlipton wrote:
| That's just... most people.
| asdf6969 wrote:
| If tech had people like this I might actually enjoy my job
| alecco wrote:
| Tech had people kinda like this in the 90s. Some of them
| hackers. Couch surfing, partying, lan parties,
| skating/hiking/whatever.
| jessenaser wrote:
| Is this what it feels like to have a life without a purpose? Or
| is it a plot to a romcom movie about to be released?
|
| Either way, interesting.
| jyunwai wrote:
| Most other comments so far have viewed this artist's lifestyle
| negatively, as he wrote that he got by via abusing various
| policies and tax fraud (via "[hallucinating] a DJ software skin"
| to claim as a business expense). But he's an interesting person
| for sticking to his craft for close to a decade now: he has
| persisted in working hard to produce artwork and submit it for
| exhibition.
|
| However, to what extent is this lifestyle necessary as an artist?
| A common piece of advice for many artists is to consider
| developing a steady career independent of one's art, which lets
| them afford their lifestyle as an artist (such as by writing,
| creating artwork, or performing during the evenings and
| weekends). But the effectiveness of this advice must vary for the
| individual: it's also common for many people to drop their
| artwork or stop taking it seriously in favour of their paying
| career.
|
| For this artist in particular, I wonder if a steady job would
| have been a positive or negative to his art. In this case, the
| income would have reduced his suffering especially as he's
| dealing with medical debt. It could have even granted him
| additional artistic freedom, as he writes about the pressures to
| "defect" and his acceptance of more commercial work for money.
| Yet at the same time, it's possible that part of the desperation
| is behind his drive as an artist--though it's also risky to
| romanticize this desperation.
| cess11 wrote:
| Why would that be risky?
| atoav wrote:
| As someone teaching at an art school/university I can assure
| you that unhealthy drives for art often (but not nearly
| always!) have hard psychological causes. That brings all kins
| of hardships with itself, many of those artists live
| unhealthy, often impoverished, rarely stable lives. And while
| the romatic view of the impoverished artist is a popular one,
| these people are rarely as free as they like they would be
| and I have seen suicides happen.
|
| Most artists I know would love to have stability, yet in
| society there is rarely space and funding for the things they
| are doing. I know people who had to move their ateliers 4
| times in 10 years, just because the landlords use them to
| make the rental/area more attractive to a better pating
| clientel and then kick them out.
| rebuilder wrote:
| The common wisdom is , if you're going to be an artist, it
| better be because you can be nothing else. It's that hard.
|
| So, it's a rare person indeed who can be a serious artist and
| support themselves financially some other way
| filoleg wrote:
| Our choices about what we do (as a
| craft/career/industry/etc.) aren't solely dictated by things
| like "because I can be nothing else." Mostly because I doubt
| that most people (including myself) would even have the
| ability to answer that question for themselves.
|
| I have no idea how everyone ended up doing what they are
| doing, but I know that mine wasnt dictated by that at all. At
| 18, when I was about to graduate high school, I had
| absolutely zero sense about who I can or cannot be. Over a
| decade later, I have a slightly better grasp on it. But it
| barely moved the needle, and I still have no idea who i can
| or cannot be.
|
| I picked CS (computer science) as my degree. I had almost no
| experience with writing code (turbopascal 5 years prior for a
| semester doesn't count), and i was behind most of my
| classmates in that aspect (who tested out of the first two
| intro courses, since they either had HS internships or AP CS
| credits or just personal projects like published apps and
| guthub repos).
|
| Well actually, originally I picked EE (electrical
| engineering), but then I switched during the second day of
| the summer orientation for incoming freshmen to CS. Once we
| got to registering for the first semester of classes on the
| second day, I saw the choice of classes I had vs. what CS
| students had. The descriptions just sounded more interesting
| to me.
|
| Did I base my choice at any given point based on who I
| thought I could be? Not at all. I had zero knowledge that led
| me to believe I would be a more capable CS graduate (as
| opposed to EE). I also chose not to go for pre-med, despite
| my parents' wishes, but it also had nothing to do with who I
| thought I could or couldn't be. I am glad I didnt go that
| route, because after developing an ongoing friendship with a
| guy who eventually became a licensed dermatologist, I learned
| a lot of things that led me to believe I couldn't be a doctor
| (not without losing my sanity, at least).
|
| I guess the point along this longwinded reply is, I don't buy
| it even for a second that a significant number of artists
| picked their field because they didnt think they could be
| something else. Most of them are people just like you and me,
| and I believe they are just as aware that they have no idea
| as to whom they can and cannot be. At the very best, they
| would have a short list of who they know they cannot be (just
| like i know i could never be a doctor).
| chefandy wrote:
| I think people confuse prudent with good. I don't think this
| person would be delusional enough to think their choices were
| prudent by "polite" society's standards, especially when
| describing himself as a crust punk-- a subculture that prides
| itself on eschewing damn near everything that "polite" society
| values. However, it's also pretty bullshit that someone who
| makes art that people want and has an opinion interesting
| enough to have academic cachet needs to essentially bottom feed
| to stay afloat in the most fundamental ways. Art is important
| to humanity, but capitalism isn't super great at supporting
| things with intrinsic cultural value but no mercantile utility.
|
| Especially since the popularization of AI image generators,
| many folks in the tech crowd-- few of whom could name a single
| influential work, author, or organization in arts scholarship--
| have unwarrantedly strong opinions on the nature of art. They
| tend to cite the lack of market value in fine art as
| justification for neither paying artists for their ingested
| works, nor for the amalgams the produced models spit out. But
| when confronted with the fact that most artists are not working
| in fine art, but working commercial artists, they will cite
| their commercially concerns as evidence that modern art and
| artists are soulless and not worth protecting to begin with.
|
| Honestly, the longer you work in the arts the more you shrug
| your shoulders at it. People have spent millennia holding all
| but the most famous artists and designers in contempt while art
| in some form, deliberately and thoughtfully made by someone
| with great skill, imbues nearly every aspect of our cultures.
| There's always a new cohort of people wanting to extract more
| out of artists for their own gain-- either in art or income--
| while calling artists selfish for wanting a slice and telling
| them to get a "real job". Such is life.
| roughly wrote:
| > For this artist in particular, I wonder if a steady job would
| have been a positive or negative to his art.
|
| There's a lot to read between the lines here, but if I were a
| betting man, I wouldn't put a lot on the author being the sort
| to maintain a steady job for the long run.
|
| I don't mean that as a critique - the world needs all sorts,
| but capitalism's got more strict opinions.
| bsder wrote:
| It's pretty sad, actually, how much negative vibe is here.
|
| This man is hustle culture personified. What's the problem?
|
| Alternatively, he's the epitome of a "disruptor". What's the
| issue?
|
| Oh, perhaps it's that he's holding up a light at what is at the
| end of the tunnel if we keep going the way society is--complete
| instability for the peons who are completely at the whim of a
| small number of the rich.
| Thorrez wrote:
| > "[hallucinating] a DJ software skin" to claim as a business
| expense
|
| I don't think he's claiming a hallucinated skin as a business
| expense. Rather he's saying the Turbotax UI has some slider in
| it, and he hallucinates that Turbotax is instead DJ software,
| and he slides that slider around like a DJ would slide a sound
| modulator slider around, arriving at a fraudulent number.
| robador wrote:
| This was a great read and reminiscent of Kerouac (to me). It also
| makes me think of a life a consciously decided I didn't want
| after I finished art academy. I've seen others who did and got
| out after decades of trying and failing. I was lucky to figure
| out that going to art school to become an artist is a pipe dream.
| mlsu wrote:
| It's a clever bit.
|
| It is intellectually amusing to read, and I'm sure to write, a
| character that the reader hates. But the detachment becomes
| exhausting quick. It's a dead end; you spent all of this effort
| being clever, with what to show for it? After reading it, I find
| myself questioning which side of the joke is real and which is
| false, and whether I'm in the real part of the joke or the false
| part. Which is ultimately a fruitless exercise, since the whole
| thing is intentionally set up to be pointless. Got me, I guess?
|
| I do like the visuals though.
| pavlov wrote:
| The essence and moral of this quite wonderful piece:
|
| _"No one wants to listen to an artist describe their work, but
| everyone wants to be told my rib story."_
| bee_rider wrote:
| That's interesting, I checked out around the rib story.
| cess11 wrote:
| Could have been worse, could have had a second wife and gone
| William Tell.
|
| The story about Hollywood was fun.
| reactus wrote:
| Several commenters here hate the writer, calling him "completely
| insufferable", "a character that the reader hates", or "a
| selfish, narcissistic jerk". But I didn't find him that bad? His
| worst crime was stealing a $4000 suit from Barneys New York.
| platz wrote:
| so stealing is ok if it's from the wealthy and corporations..
| krapp wrote:
| Yes.
| spdif899 wrote:
| generally yea
|
| there's also a big difference between "one guy supposedly
| stealing one thing as a part of a story" and "let's all go
| steal"
| platz wrote:
| when you consider morality, do you think your rule only
| ever applies to one person or categorically?
| noobermin wrote:
| No one other than Kant (and really, kant's own delusions
| about himself) are deontological ethicists. Everyone has
| exceptions where they think the right thing is context
| dependent
| dgfitz wrote:
| It's not, but two others have defended it. Reminds me of how
| people defend graffiti "artists" for "expressing themselves"
| despite the fact that it's vandalism.
|
| I believe this train of thought is called "entitled"
| reactus wrote:
| I didn't say that. Stealing $4k is bad, but I can't say I
| hate the guy for it. It's not like he ran into the store with
| a machine gun and murdered the clerk to get the cash in the
| register. Also the suit anecdote could have been made up
| anyways.
| platz wrote:
| is murder the only bad thing in your mind?
|
| can things be bad without being the worst possible thing?
|
| what i'm hearing: its bad but it's not bad because there
| are worse things that are bad and also I'm "looking the
| other way"
|
| whether or not it was made up was irrelevant to your
| initial claim. the proposition is identical in either case.
| dj_mc_merlin wrote:
| The fact that so many people on HN dislike this proves hacker
| culture died in programming..
| grzeshru wrote:
| I don't even understand what there is to dislike. This person
| lives in misery
| badpun wrote:
| He stole a $4k suit out of a store, for one thing.
| logicprog wrote:
| The store will be fine.
| smackeyacky wrote:
| There is a great deal to dislike. Primarily he is clearly
| from an affluent family and all his misery could be solved
| with a phone call.
| grzeshru wrote:
| What makes it seem like, from this piece anyway, that he is
| from an affluent family? (I don't know the author/artist
| whatsoever.) Describe to me the phone call you think ought
| to take place.
| pyrophane wrote:
| I read HN almost daily and comment here often, but I don't like
| the name. I wish they'd chosen to call it something more like
| "startup news" instead, as that feels like a more accurate
| representation of the site and its community and standards.
| yoyohello13 wrote:
| More like "capitalist porn." Mostly seems to just be people
| salivating over how much wealth they can extract with the
| next big tech advancements.
| linguae wrote:
| I don't think hacker culture is dead. Rather, computing entered
| its Eternal September; a career in software engineering,
| especially in the United States, now carries a similar cachet
| to being a doctor or lawyer, and the startup world has
| attracted those who want to make a fortune. The geeks, nerds,
| scholars, artists, and other varied misfits who once dominated
| the field have been outnumbered by those looking for money.
|
| This is the price of computing's success. It's not all bad or
| all good, it just is a natural consequence of computing
| becoming an integral part of modern society.
| nothercastle wrote:
| It's not just money they made so much money they actually
| dislodged and eliminated the conditions and opportunities
| that created hacker culture in the first place
| underlipton wrote:
| The more I read this, the more I dislike the writer. Probably
| some mixture of disgust and jealousy, as a failed artist who
| can't bring myself to do/am incapable of doing the things he's
| done to see some measure of success. Is this what it takes (for
| an extroverted white dude)?
| labrador wrote:
| I used to be similarly lost in the drama of my own life, hanging
| on to things that I felt made me special. It's an ego trap in my
| opinion, as there are millions of people around us who have
| extrodinary lives that we never hear about. The word "sonder"
| applies:
|
| _Sonder is defined as the profound feeling of realizing that
| everyone, including strangers passing by on the street, has a
| life as complex and vivid as your own. They experience hopes,
| dreams, friendships, routines, worries and an inner life, all of
| which you 'll likely never know about or fully understand._
|
| _The term was coined by John Koenig in The Dictionary of Obscure
| Sorrows, a compendium of newly invented words for powerful
| feelings that don 't have a descriptive term in the English
| language._
|
| I had a sponser do me a favor once and tell me "you're a special
| case of the same old thing." It helped me get over myself.
| p3rls wrote:
| There's something gross about people trying to force this
| sonder neologism through but I can't put my finger on it I'm
| hardly a prescriptivist either
| labrador wrote:
| I think of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows as an art
| project. I never got the impression that we were supposed to
| start using these words. It's interesting and entertaining,
| like when I learned the Czech word "litost" from "The Book of
| Laughter and Forgetting" by Milan Kundera. "Litost is a state
| of torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery."
|
| _Part five of this book is about Litost, a kind of misery-
| induced torment only known to the Czech people. You could see
| it is a Slavic thing._
|
| https://fictionbeast.com/milan-kundera-the-unbearable-
| ligthn...
|
| Something akin to how I felt trapped in my own drama
| aberzun wrote:
| Aside from the essay, can somebody please explain to me the
| appeal of "art works" like the ones that Andrew produces? It's
| gotta be some kind of joke that I missed the memo on, right!?
| noobermin wrote:
| They're pretty and or provacative. What else are you looking
| for?
|
| Beauty is subjective and all that. I liked some of them and
| disliked others.
| noobermin wrote:
| This man has lived a life many fantasise about, although perhaps
| not a very comfortable one. I think sometimes I lived a
| colourful, varied life but what a story for this piece.
|
| I can't believe I have to do the reddit edit postscriptum but
| really, does everyone dislike the author? I certainly could never
| be this sort of person, but what a story, living life on the edge
| and making it up as they go along. Do commenters never daydream,
| like just imagine how life would be if things had turned out
| differently?
| hamburglar1 wrote:
| This is one of the best, funniest pieces of writing I have read
| in months - The utter detachment and cynicism displayed around
| this borderline Hunter S Thompson acid trip is breath of fresh
| air.
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