Random brain noise

It occurs to me that I'm never going to keep up with posting on my hopeful twice-per-week schedule if I hold myself to a minimum level of inspiration. Sometimes I need to just externalize the brain noise, and see what falls out. Going back over it later is the meditative part in that: it allows you both presence and distance to catch patterns of thoughts that you're having.

I wondered this morning why Afrofuturism was a thing that I had seen, but that Latin American futurism was not something that I had really seen much of. So I decided to go looking for it. How can we really understand and respect a people if we don't know what they want, what their dreams are? So I have decided to start with the proud nerds of Latin America.

I was taught to model people based on a sort of four color metric: what they wanted, what they were afraid of, how they went about getting what they wanted, and how they avoided what they are afraid of/didn't want. It's pretty basic, yeah, but it is fairly accurate and WAY better than the ??? and constant confusion of having no real system previous to that metric. As a nation, I don't think we have even that nuanced an understanding of our subcultures and ethnicities, and it's really sad and shitty of us to not be curious about how we can all benefit each other.