Fuck the clock
I’ve been listening to Patti Smith’s interviews and first thing I got to say is what a gift is to be able to be part of someone’s that experienced, full of life and just “what is fair” speaker.
Every time I heard that woman talk I feel like I’d love to wake up to a person that connected to history, art, philosophy, music. Visual and a lector. Her speech makes me never stop writing, never stop reaching to all the ways I can speak through art, even when I feel it’s not satisfying to me — because through all my do’s I will beat the clock. At some point the clock won’t matter. I will become a woman full of memories and my walls will be the pain but also my joy.
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I love her takes in technology even when I feel a little anarchist about it. For everthing there’s gray lines of course. In a interview with Louisiana Channel, she says and I quote:
“I’m sure that each generation could say that their time was the best and the worst of times but I think that right now, we are at something different that I’ve never seen. It’s a pioneering time, because there is no other time in history like right now. And that makes it unique. It’s not unique because we have like Renaissance style artists, it’s unique because the people… it is the time of the people. Because technology has really democratized self-expression. Instead of a handful of people making their own records or writing their own songs, everybody can write them. Everyone can post a poem on the internet, and have people read it, everyone has access, and access that they’ve never had before, there are possibilities for global striking, for bringinig down these corporations and goverments who think they rule the world, because we can unite as one people through technology. We’re all still figuring it out, and what power we actually have, but the people still do have the power, more than ever, and I think right now, we’re going through this painful sort of like adolescence: what do we do with this technology, what do we do with our world, who are we. But, it also makes it exciting, all the young people right now, the new generations, they are pioneers in a new time. Try to have fun, stay clean, stay healthy, because you know, you have a lot of challenges ahead, and, be happy”.
Thank you for your words, Patti. 🤍
