Heather
Dagobah Resident
Are any of you aware of a social platform called "Only Fans"?
It seems to be about normalizing porn. It's encouraging people to use their own bodies pornographically.
I feel for the young man in this video. Artists, who often are especially sensitive people, need to protect themselves. They need to protect themselves from being used, and from being used up.
This person has rings under his eyes, and has a twitch. In fact, his whole presentation is rather twitchy and wired. He could use some serious "unplugged" time; some time to regain some balance. Instead, it looks like he's diving into this new Only Fans reality full throttle without a second thought. Rather sad how self acceptance is here conflated with being naked and performing sexually online. He's got no distance at all on what he's engaged in. Art is very often like that. You go with the flow, not realizing exactly what nefarious social programming you may unwittingly be being indoctrinated into, and in that way further perpetrating. If it feels "edgy" you go there; and he's happy with the money he's making doing this, as it allows him to focus more on his music. That this man is also selling himself out to an insidious agenda doesn't at all occur to him. It seems like he has talent too. The editing and staging and sensibility (albeit depraved) involved in what he and his partner are doing are perhaps not without artistic merit, from the little you can see. Unfortunately, for those very reasons, it's easy to rationalize away one's deeper reservations and doubts, feeling that to challenge oneself in this way is actually healthy from an aesthetic/artistic, even psychological perspective.
One's physical well being is key. If he looked objectively at this video of himself he might be frightened by what he sees. But he just doesn't see it. Nor does his female partner who is doing a lot of the photography. They are pulled into the novelty of it all, and the edginess, without any inkling of the "processing" that this suggests.
In one of the comments at Youtube a viewer did express some concern for his health, saying that he looked "tired," which is something of an understatement. But at least SOMEONE is noticing that he might not be looking after his own well being.
That goes for his life as a musician, as well. This person was obviously already very "processed" when he decided to try Only Fans. So, it's all of a piece. Only Fans just takes the edge he's riding relative to his art into a more... vulnerable, let's call it, area. Symbolically he's stripping away what may be vital to his self protection. He's offering himself up, without a thought of the darker elements at work.
Can we use technology without being used?
With vigilance some of use are learning to, I think. It is changing all of us, though. So, it's about degrees, and awareness.
Without awareness and knowledge we are all at risk:
[couldn't resist this scene from "Rosemary's Baby"]
It seems to be about normalizing porn. It's encouraging people to use their own bodies pornographically.
I feel for the young man in this video. Artists, who often are especially sensitive people, need to protect themselves. They need to protect themselves from being used, and from being used up.
This person has rings under his eyes, and has a twitch. In fact, his whole presentation is rather twitchy and wired. He could use some serious "unplugged" time; some time to regain some balance. Instead, it looks like he's diving into this new Only Fans reality full throttle without a second thought. Rather sad how self acceptance is here conflated with being naked and performing sexually online. He's got no distance at all on what he's engaged in. Art is very often like that. You go with the flow, not realizing exactly what nefarious social programming you may unwittingly be being indoctrinated into, and in that way further perpetrating. If it feels "edgy" you go there; and he's happy with the money he's making doing this, as it allows him to focus more on his music. That this man is also selling himself out to an insidious agenda doesn't at all occur to him. It seems like he has talent too. The editing and staging and sensibility (albeit depraved) involved in what he and his partner are doing are perhaps not without artistic merit, from the little you can see. Unfortunately, for those very reasons, it's easy to rationalize away one's deeper reservations and doubts, feeling that to challenge oneself in this way is actually healthy from an aesthetic/artistic, even psychological perspective.
One's physical well being is key. If he looked objectively at this video of himself he might be frightened by what he sees. But he just doesn't see it. Nor does his female partner who is doing a lot of the photography. They are pulled into the novelty of it all, and the edginess, without any inkling of the "processing" that this suggests.
In one of the comments at Youtube a viewer did express some concern for his health, saying that he looked "tired," which is something of an understatement. But at least SOMEONE is noticing that he might not be looking after his own well being.
That goes for his life as a musician, as well. This person was obviously already very "processed" when he decided to try Only Fans. So, it's all of a piece. Only Fans just takes the edge he's riding relative to his art into a more... vulnerable, let's call it, area. Symbolically he's stripping away what may be vital to his self protection. He's offering himself up, without a thought of the darker elements at work.
Can we use technology without being used?
With vigilance some of use are learning to, I think. It is changing all of us, though. So, it's about degrees, and awareness.
Without awareness and knowledge we are all at risk:
[couldn't resist this scene from "Rosemary's Baby"]
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