Jonathan Bowen

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since February 18, 2001

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February 18, 2001, on How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates:
All those comments ahead of me, and yet there's still something to be said. The world is in a downward spiral. The 'creatives' among us (myself included) are facing mass extinction at the hands of accountants and programmers and lawyers and blah blah blah blah blah. The ones who make life enjoyable: filmmakers, actors, writers, artists, bakers, pornographers, architects, etc..., we are the ones who frankly, get shit on. Pardon my lack of french. We are the ones who God (or Buddha, or Jesus, or Satan, or whoever the hell you do or don't believe in) has touched with his finger. We are the ones who are lucky enough to live in our bubble of insanity and make others happy while we spin a web of self-destruction for our own mortal selves. 'Creatives' do not live. They are in a perpetual state of dying. We cannot, by definition, be happy with ourselves. We always want more. We want to 'create'. We strive to be gods in a godless existence. But we strive nonetheless. Why is any of this important...