A quick one: We’re in one of those phases of doomerism about the future— not of liberal democracy in the face of an ascendant techno-fascist kleptocracy, or of the planet as a livable place for human civilization as we know it— are you kidding? I’m talking about something important: the future of our job, as drummers.
This moment’s agent of death is AI. Jealous of all the money we make, our wannabe tech overlords have trained their sights on the creative arts, attempting to seize and mechanize the creative instinct, freeing humanity at last from its cruel shackles. Their little rat brains are working triple time to code us out of existence, for some reason. We make them unhappy.
Their own PR tells us this is inevitable. According to them, the future = you are irrelevant, you will never win, we own your job and your business, we get all the money that would have, unjustly, gone to you. All human relationships are cancelled, they all shall be mediated by software. Victory is assured, no one is safe.
That’s the story they’re hyping. I think they got hold of some bad DMT. The ketamine that is the cornerstone of their food pyramid, combined with a few decades living at the epicenter of a venture capital money-vomiting sh*t-tornado machine has rotted their brains. We’ve already seen that their taste in music is pure dog food.
The key phrase of this moment in time is:
Don’t obey in advance.
Do what you want. They can come for your job when they come for your job. If that happens (it won’t) you can do something else. It happens all the time— people change jobs. Or they don’t change jobs, and survive, somehow. But it’s not going to happen, so do what you want.
Whatever happens, even if the techno-suck six-finger making plagiarism machine is good enough for most people, there will always be a segment of humanity that cares about good art made by humans, and there are enough humans on the planet for them to comprise a sizable economy on their own.
And it all fades in significance when you get off the internet, and get into the real world. It’s full of normal people doing normal stuff, it’s amazing.