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21 - Aunia Kahn (Human Dignity vs The Internet)
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This weekās guest is the artist, gallery owner, podcaster, web designer, and musician Aunia Kahn! Among her many notable achievements, she curates Alexi Era Gallery in Oregon, hosted the Create & Inspire Podcast, and survived eleven years housebound with disability to emerge more creative, passionate, and powerful than before.
In one of this podcastās more rambling conversations, we discuss:
- Internet & Cellphone Addiction (and the problem of āgameifyingā everything to seize attention).
- How the internet has changed the ways we present ourselves to one another online, splintered our identities, and changed our sense of timeā¦
- Using technology (especially social media) instead of letting technology use you.
- Comparing the Internet and Organized Religion, and how institutions serve the role of ātigersā in the modern ājungleā of society.
- Looking at the historical context of disability and the relative nature of contemporary problems.
- How disease can shock us into a deeper sense of mortality and urgency with respect to our creative work.
- How sometimes the big life events change usā¦and sometimes, they donāt.
āQuotes from Aunia Kahn:
āStop worrying about people judging you. Just make it.ā
āIf you people donāt like it, Iām sorry, stop following me. Iām not living my life to please youā¦Iām not going to sit there and pretend that Iām three different people, and thatās kind of what this digital age has created.ā
āWhere is that fine line? Iām taking it [the smartphone] to the dinner table and Iām not even paying attention to what Iām eating, Iām posting something to Instagram while Iām shoving food in my mouth, and Iām wondering why Iām choking! Itās dinner time. Weāre going to put the phone somewhere else. Itās not work time.ā
āWhere do you get your value? Do you get your value from social media or do you get your value from true real conversations with people, like weāre having? Where is that true interaction?ā
āI donāt think a lot of people are technologically consumed yet that they realize theyāre missing out on the human, the real, the not-virtual. And having already gone through that, I just want to grab people and say, āPUT IT DOWN AND EAT YOUR DINNER!ā Everywhere you go, itās always cellphone-to-your-face. Nobodyās looking at the trees, at each otherā¦over time, people will start to crave the more-real, the tangible, the touchingā¦we need that.ā
āEVERYBODYāS valid. Everybodyās creativity is valid. I donāt care if I dislike it or not. Every human being on this Earth has value. Old peopleā¦are just like, āIām going to live my life and if you donāt like it, kiss my ass.ā We should adopt that earlier on.ā
Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/futurefossils.
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This is a public episode. If youād like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe
219 episodes
Manage episode 213667520 series 2407639
This weekās guest is the artist, gallery owner, podcaster, web designer, and musician Aunia Kahn! Among her many notable achievements, she curates Alexi Era Gallery in Oregon, hosted the Create & Inspire Podcast, and survived eleven years housebound with disability to emerge more creative, passionate, and powerful than before.
In one of this podcastās more rambling conversations, we discuss:
- Internet & Cellphone Addiction (and the problem of āgameifyingā everything to seize attention).
- How the internet has changed the ways we present ourselves to one another online, splintered our identities, and changed our sense of timeā¦
- Using technology (especially social media) instead of letting technology use you.
- Comparing the Internet and Organized Religion, and how institutions serve the role of ātigersā in the modern ājungleā of society.
- Looking at the historical context of disability and the relative nature of contemporary problems.
- How disease can shock us into a deeper sense of mortality and urgency with respect to our creative work.
- How sometimes the big life events change usā¦and sometimes, they donāt.
āQuotes from Aunia Kahn:
āStop worrying about people judging you. Just make it.ā
āIf you people donāt like it, Iām sorry, stop following me. Iām not living my life to please youā¦Iām not going to sit there and pretend that Iām three different people, and thatās kind of what this digital age has created.ā
āWhere is that fine line? Iām taking it [the smartphone] to the dinner table and Iām not even paying attention to what Iām eating, Iām posting something to Instagram while Iām shoving food in my mouth, and Iām wondering why Iām choking! Itās dinner time. Weāre going to put the phone somewhere else. Itās not work time.ā
āWhere do you get your value? Do you get your value from social media or do you get your value from true real conversations with people, like weāre having? Where is that true interaction?ā
āI donāt think a lot of people are technologically consumed yet that they realize theyāre missing out on the human, the real, the not-virtual. And having already gone through that, I just want to grab people and say, āPUT IT DOWN AND EAT YOUR DINNER!ā Everywhere you go, itās always cellphone-to-your-face. Nobodyās looking at the trees, at each otherā¦over time, people will start to crave the more-real, the tangible, the touchingā¦we need that.ā
āEVERYBODYāS valid. Everybodyās creativity is valid. I donāt care if I dislike it or not. Every human being on this Earth has value. Old peopleā¦are just like, āIām going to live my life and if you donāt like it, kiss my ass.ā We should adopt that earlier on.ā
Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/futurefossils.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This is a public episode. If youād like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe
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