'i think everybody has kind of been lied to. i think everybody is just figuring out that a lot of this stuff is just constructs. like when people were like 'CDs are $20' - they were expensive, and then you found out that that's not necessary to make a CD. and they were like, 'why were you doing that ?' and now people are angry because music can be free and enjoyed by all.
why do we burn crops to make sure that the dollar doesn't get weaker ? why do we not give that food to people who need that food ? there are still so many things were i'm like 'that still doesn't make sense', and we are at a time where an individual person can do mass amounts of good. ..they can also do bad - as the world grows, one person can also make worse & worse things happen, but the opposite is almost true, & i don't see that happening. we have so much good that we can do now with one person, that we should all be looking at global problems. we are still in survival mode. i feel that if we could all back up a little bit & see how important it is for us to start working toward world goals, it would be really great. ..and the internet allows that, but no-one's doing that. everybody's too busy with, i think, things that won't matter in a couple of years..or a year.
i hate niche; i'm so tired of niche. niche is something that i'm glad to see go away from this part decade. it makes sense, i guess, 'after the internet'; that model for a lot of things; making it niche. but like, i think we just need to be smarter. making a product for only a select few; you can definitely sustain that product. but i feel like that risk that you take, of like, maybe its good for everybody, is worth it. i only want to make things that are going to reach as many people as possible. i don't believe in niche - that comes from wanting more money. ..or not even more money, but just stable money - and i'm not interested in making things safe. things are unsafe. people can print a 3D gun right now. things are never going to back to not that, so what we have to do is (looking at humanity from far away), 'that's true, then how do we make things better together?' no-one really talks about that. maybe people are afraid. i know i probably look like a goober saying, 'things should get better', but i feel like i'm the only one that really feels that way. but i don't think i am. every time, people seem to connect. i think that people should know; they are that. they're the ones that do that. people don't feel that way. people are afraid. people are scared. because you have to be vulnerable, and the internet's not a very cool place to be vulnerable. because no-one feels like they're good enough.
we are all around that age where jobs weren't there after they came out, and that's why i feel like i'm being lied to. because everybody just kind of became a freelance photographer, a freelance.. and then you realise, no-one's really happy. no-one's really happy because we're not attaining those goals that everybody told you to. we're supposed to have kids, and do all of these things, and no-one's really happy because they realise that all of those things are kind of not what make you happy. that's what our parents did to have purpose. ..and now we have all of that stuff, and the thing we're supposed to do is really be helping each other. but we've been brought up in this kind of, 'well i'm supposed to be the top-ranking manager at this thing by this point', and its not real. its just not necessary. everybody should just be following their passion, because they're going to be good at that. but people are too worried about their jobs, because people have got to eat. its sad, but its true, and i feel bad. i don't want to be the guy on camera being like, 'you should be following your dreams', and then people are like, 'i have five kids'. i can't do that, but i think its true; people are scared and vulnerable because its dangerous to do that. but i don't think we're going to grow if we don't.
you go on Tumblr, you go online; everything you see is nostalgia because people are afraid of the future. i just don't want to be afraid of the future, honestly.
there's no patterns. i mean, no patterns that work. in comedy all of the time, people used to be like, 'how did you get that job?' big people, like Chris Rock, they're like, 'i don't know'. all of them, not one of them is like, 'here's what you do: you talk to Mr Hollywood..' it doesn't work that way. anybody who did anything good for a bunch of people was breaking so many rules on the way there. there weren't anybody telling them, 'this is good', except their friends maybe. ..and most of the times, they didn't. most of the times, their friends were like, 'you're nuts.' so i feel like, we have those tools now to do that - an 8 year old has that; has a computer - but we're not using it. but that's just how i feel.'
- 'Childish Gambino' / Donald Glover via
why do we burn crops to make sure that the dollar doesn't get weaker ? why do we not give that food to people who need that food ? there are still so many things were i'm like 'that still doesn't make sense', and we are at a time where an individual person can do mass amounts of good. ..they can also do bad - as the world grows, one person can also make worse & worse things happen, but the opposite is almost true, & i don't see that happening. we have so much good that we can do now with one person, that we should all be looking at global problems. we are still in survival mode. i feel that if we could all back up a little bit & see how important it is for us to start working toward world goals, it would be really great. ..and the internet allows that, but no-one's doing that. everybody's too busy with, i think, things that won't matter in a couple of years..or a year.
i hate niche; i'm so tired of niche. niche is something that i'm glad to see go away from this part decade. it makes sense, i guess, 'after the internet'; that model for a lot of things; making it niche. but like, i think we just need to be smarter. making a product for only a select few; you can definitely sustain that product. but i feel like that risk that you take, of like, maybe its good for everybody, is worth it. i only want to make things that are going to reach as many people as possible. i don't believe in niche - that comes from wanting more money. ..or not even more money, but just stable money - and i'm not interested in making things safe. things are unsafe. people can print a 3D gun right now. things are never going to back to not that, so what we have to do is (looking at humanity from far away), 'that's true, then how do we make things better together?' no-one really talks about that. maybe people are afraid. i know i probably look like a goober saying, 'things should get better', but i feel like i'm the only one that really feels that way. but i don't think i am. every time, people seem to connect. i think that people should know; they are that. they're the ones that do that. people don't feel that way. people are afraid. people are scared. because you have to be vulnerable, and the internet's not a very cool place to be vulnerable. because no-one feels like they're good enough.
we are all around that age where jobs weren't there after they came out, and that's why i feel like i'm being lied to. because everybody just kind of became a freelance photographer, a freelance.. and then you realise, no-one's really happy. no-one's really happy because we're not attaining those goals that everybody told you to. we're supposed to have kids, and do all of these things, and no-one's really happy because they realise that all of those things are kind of not what make you happy. that's what our parents did to have purpose. ..and now we have all of that stuff, and the thing we're supposed to do is really be helping each other. but we've been brought up in this kind of, 'well i'm supposed to be the top-ranking manager at this thing by this point', and its not real. its just not necessary. everybody should just be following their passion, because they're going to be good at that. but people are too worried about their jobs, because people have got to eat. its sad, but its true, and i feel bad. i don't want to be the guy on camera being like, 'you should be following your dreams', and then people are like, 'i have five kids'. i can't do that, but i think its true; people are scared and vulnerable because its dangerous to do that. but i don't think we're going to grow if we don't.
you go on Tumblr, you go online; everything you see is nostalgia because people are afraid of the future. i just don't want to be afraid of the future, honestly.
there's no patterns. i mean, no patterns that work. in comedy all of the time, people used to be like, 'how did you get that job?' big people, like Chris Rock, they're like, 'i don't know'. all of them, not one of them is like, 'here's what you do: you talk to Mr Hollywood..' it doesn't work that way. anybody who did anything good for a bunch of people was breaking so many rules on the way there. there weren't anybody telling them, 'this is good', except their friends maybe. ..and most of the times, they didn't. most of the times, their friends were like, 'you're nuts.' so i feel like, we have those tools now to do that - an 8 year old has that; has a computer - but we're not using it. but that's just how i feel.'
- 'Childish Gambino' / Donald Glover via
