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Wordly pursuits and precision engineering.
I grew up surfing and skating in Lennox Head and Avalon, in and out of Sydney, and trading stickers was a huge part of how we found our style, talked, competed and connected with each other.
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Fundamentally more than flatlanders.
It's like there's a fundamental base level intellectual precarity and self referential precarity that we recognize as part of the entire fucking system and for every single person in the world. It can seem like the vast majority think that their thoughts of who they are and how they see themselves, their livelihood, the well being of the system, all of it, is just like, fundamentally sound.
If we don't engage in rapidly expanding not just the amount of perspective we have, but also the dimensionality of it as well, then we can't continue to exist— everything's at stake at the expansion of that perspective.
The key thing that I think is important to point out is the fundamental belief that of course, everything's at the edge of total collapse, because everything has always been at the edge, of total collapse.
We have never in our history as people, as a species ever, ever, ever reached the point of having real security.
Because the idea that we've attained some kind of special security is a total illusion, with no basis in fact.
That to me is a really interesting dinner debate premise.
Any value brought in from sales of NFTs minted through this article will be used for building out the F₃M Realm treasury, which will eventually be governed and coordinated by the DAO, furthering to decentralise the web3 fashion capital stack.