It Begins

Thanks for coming. I'll be quick, so here's the 60-second pitch: Culture Invisible falls somewhere between being a meeting house and a sketchbook; it's the question "what are you thinking?" as answered by the best and the brightest, the most intelligent, belligerent minds I could find and convince to post here. It's a live documentary of what ideas, big or small, we happen to be grappling with at the moment, what pitstop we're at on the road forward. The only rule is: be interesting. Curiosity goes.

Out there in the real world, I keep meeting the same person, someone creative, driven, young--and increasingly disaffected, increasingly haunted by the idea that they are actively being duped. He, she, is tortured by the vague sense that the package deal of the soulless job and the settled-for relationship and the house filled with useless shit bought for no other reason than that's what you do with money is a scam; maybe, just maybe, it's all a set-up, a high-fructose-corn-syrup con, a slimy-sweet, ready-made substitute for real life. It used to be that all those great minds either took up rock music or suicide as hobbies, that if society wasn't doing it for you, get high or die. Thanks to the internet, we can catch those malcontents as they fall through the cracks and put them to work. Culture Invisible is for them, for us. We want out of the system, and this is the best way we have to find an exit--try something new, tell the smartest people you know about it, and see if it sticks.

That's my take on it. Other contributors are free to say fuck Jack and write their own manifesto.