angel wings

confessions

I am basically going through hell as I write this. Long story short, I have lived my life stuck in the greatest lie that I refused to admit, to myself, to anyone around me, to You.

I truly, truly believe and can only just now articulate that the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is definitive proof of everything wrong with this country. I pray I will live to see it overturned in my lifetime (and believe that some of the people closest to me can play a role in seeing it happen, if American law schools weren’t some of the most abusive schools in the world). And everyone knows it but not everyone will admit it, because to say something that is not human deserves freedom of speech feels, sometimes, like idolatry. Some of us have just been raised to believe it, and it is hard to let go of the past, I know.

I will never just say “AI” like it is a person, like that is a name. Artificial fucking intelligence is something of an oxymoron, and generative artificial intelligence is not real. It will never, ever be real. If that makes you uncomfortable, then sorry. But maybe just delete your Substack account. It might make you happier.

I do believe in the American dream, but it is a dream.

Do not ever decide to keep your head in a cloud because they tell you to; they want you to forget that we weren’t born with wings.