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What’s wayvy baby? We wrapping up wayvydon season v and I hope yall fwi frfrfr cus it was a lot of fun to make. Soooo to keep the momentum and connect with you in a more deliberate, thoughtful way I decided to create wayvydayly. This’ll serve as a daily digest of the wayviest ideas in the world and a forum in which to discuss em. A place to witness the first formation of wayvy’s newest innovative propositions, projects and proposals and the opportunity to help mould them in the early, impressionable stages. The foundation of wayvy is conversations, so I genuinely hope that some of the things that we will go on to present will stimulate careful introspection so that we can have fruitful discussions about our experiences and channel the inevitable epiphanies into positive social change. So I wanna fashion the inaugural post by expanding a little bit on why I feel like this exercise is a necessary social good.
PARAMOUNT PERSPECTIVE
Perspective is paramount. Being able to see the world from another’s perspective is the only thing that will keep the opulence and invention of the twentieth century roaring through the twenty first. Life has become very insular, inflexible and incurious. These are very favourable conditions for corruption and exploitation, as nobody is able to unionize, nobody is able to compromise, we the people have no leverage and thus are unable to negotiate for better or different living and working conditions. As a result inequality runs amuck, inflation surges unabated and people are left abandoned, angry and confused. I do not say this to be despondent or critical of our conditions, but quite the opposite. There is so much opportunity for growth and learning with relatively low levels of investment from the average person that I cannot help but be hopeful for the future. However, in order to access the future I conceive of, people must understand each other more than they do now, and most crucially, they must understand themselves.
For the better part of a century Americans (specifically but not exclusively) have been convinced to vote against their personal interests for the interest of the collective. And for a time, it worked. It worked by ignoring a large swath of underprivileged people, but it worked. Once these people’s personal stories were shared and their perspectives understood, it was impossible to ignore them. Wave after wave of immigrant came to America fighting for more rights and advocating for themselves until the Civil Rights Movement in the 60s caused a fundamental restructuring of America. Now it was much more difficult to ignore the underclass. No longer could you kill them, silence them, coerce them or convince them that your way was the only way. So a new weapon was formed to keep the classes constant: Consumerism. Now people would be happy to be subjugated. As a matter of fact it was seen as a point of pride to be complicit in the system. “A Company Man”, as it were. Now status was not only tied to how you contributed to wider society but also what car you drove. Where you worked. Where you vacationed. And with all these new status signals came new divisions. Separations. Inability to speak to people who were uncouth, uncultured. Unable to consume correctly.
TITANS IN THE CITY III
Now we arrive at 2025. With the advent of social media, these virtue signals and moral signifiers have only become more insipid. Like the dollar, no longer tied to any real standards or physical value, only what “THE MARKET” deems the value to be. Our lives are rife with echo chambers, with them going so far as to have Artificial Large Language Models created to enable people’s narcissistic tendencies. Driving us further and further away from each other and faster into subservience to the system. Taking “the customer is always right” to the illogical extremes where once someone is paying for an ostensibly legal service, there is no need to make any moral considerations at all. Now those without leverage (us) scream to indifferent ears that their environments are being destroyed, their communities are being stripped and their neighbourhoods are being sold. womp womp. If it continues like this, we will be left with less than we had during the times of slavery. At least then, we had hope. We had culture. We had each other.
wayvydayly is the first step in a long journey in figuring out how to unfuck our brains from late stage capitalism, consumerism and social media. And i KNow you KNow we gotta do sum bout that. Maybe you have the next big idea that will shape our world. You might be the next Steve Jobs and you didn’t even know! So help a nigga out. Try something new. Fuck around n find out. You are so much bigger, smarter, and more loved than you could ever even imagine. And right now is the perfect time to tap into your blessings big dawg! So I hope you join us on our joyous journey. Leave a comment share something do something believe in something hope for something buy something from the store lmao. I hope this post made you think about something differently or made you chuckle. So stay tuned for the next wayvydayly edition! And as always…
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