From a very early age, we are gently coaxed into being part of a system, and it's a system of success based on criteria written in a time long gone and irrelevant to the world we live in today.
We start with putting brightly colored blocks in holes and putting numbered blocks in the right order, and we're rewarded when we put the right block in the right place because that's the way they want it done. The reason for this is because the people that created the system we all went through don't give a flying fuck about your creativity or your ability to think outside the box. They want you to follow directions so that if you work hard and follow the right directions, you too can have a job putting blocks in holes and in the right order as The Good Ford intended.
Creatives and freethinkers are frowned upon and made outlaws. We're told that this is going on our permanent record. We're a disruption to the natural order of things, where we strive to make great widgets and not whatever it is we're
We're making art, not widgets. We're putting the square peg, and all the other pegs, in the square hole. Because we figured out you can. We're taking the Rubik's cube apart and putting it back together solved because we figured out you can. We're not coloring inside the lines a picture of Dick, Jane, and Spot living in suburbia, we drew a picture of them fighting the Invid in Dystopia. Because that's what spoke to us. That's bad, say the teachers and the counselors and the principals. How can they expect us to make a proper widget when it looks like we want to color all the widgets in rainbow colors? This won't do. We're going to be failures, you know. Troublemakers. It's the road to a degenerate, criminal life, just you wait and see. There's no room for that here, you need to 'get with the program'. Shape up or ship out.
Then these same teachers, counselors, principals go home and watch the quirky detective go into a fugue state and solve the crime and love every second of it, not thinking for a second how goddamn hypocritical that is. Widget makers do not make quirky detectives. Creative freethinkers do, but after a lifetime of being told we're less than because we don't make a widget as well as the other good little boys and girls, we have a lot of reprogramming to do. It's easy to resent them for our indoctrination. Don't. This pirate knows what they are and why they do it. The trick is knowing that, knowing it's. Not for you, and getting on with your business. Let them make their widgets. We're making music, and art, and quirky detectives.
There's a point to all of this. Really. This pirate's usually not known for having a point, or even having a direction from tie to tome, but there's a point here.
All this talk of repairing ships and setting courses is just my way of saying 'You do you, fuck the haters." Maybe I could have said this all along, but then this would have been a very short season.
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