Hello, and welcome to Blogbaby! Depending on where you know me from, you may know me by several names. "David," "Harper," etc. For the purpose of these blogs, I'll be referring to myself as Harper, as that is the name that I prefer to go by.
When I first began working on this whole website thing, the question that I got very often was, "Why?"
Let's face it. The old internet is dead, and it has been for some time. What was once a thriving community full of bright, creative souls carving out their own little spot on the world-wide-web has been painted over with a thick layer of white primer accompanied by a choking haze of corporate miasma. Most every website is the same monotone slab, designed to be universally inoffensive and equally emotionless. Even places like YouTube are being slowly but surely taken over by worthless factories pumping out soulless slop till' the earth is reduced to a raisin. Humanity was given an endless expanse of connection, entertainment, and information, and corporations did what they do best and metaphorically lit it on fire.
I know that paragraph just made me sound like an incredibly old doomer, but as time goes by I can't help but feel more and more jaded when it comes to modern technology. With the advent of Generative AI, not only do we face the true, final nail in the coffin for a free, human internet, but also the death of knowledge, truth, objectivity, and, most importantly, creativity.
And so that's why I do what I do. That's why I teach myself the archaic art of low-quality HTML coding, all without relying on the newest vibe-coder. I force myself to pick up a pencil and paper just to doodle. I get a little bit better as a musician day after day. I have a human soul, a brain full of thoughts, and creativity, all things that I dread may be in short order in the near future.
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Andor: "That's an old one."
Nemik: "Old and true. And sturdy. One of the best tools ever built. Can't be jammed or intercepted, if it breaks, you can fix it yourself."
Andor: "Hard to learn."
Nemik: "Yes. But once you've mastered it, you're free. We've grown reliant on their tech, and we've made ourselves vulnerable. There's a growing list of things that We've known and forgotten, things they've pushed us to forget. Things like freedom."