My fellow retards,
“every saint has a past, every sinner has a future”
-pregnant woman’s shirt, Beale St, Memphis
Phon/ongod does not understand how people get the urge to brand and sloganize their wardrobe. Some elves posit that it is simply a low-cost way to signal some kind of membership or belief. It does make it easier to find other Red Hot Chili Peppers fans when you wear your Red Hot Chili Peppers tee shirt, but this seems facile.
Phon/ongod makes zero assumptions about the person in the *INSERT CLEVER* shirt other than “they were the type to put on that shirt”. Same goes for the folks in the band shirts, the sports jerseys, the brand labels—all those super-basic ways through which folks seek to tell something about themselves to whoever happens to be around…
The more I see, the less I know
The more I like to let it goSnow (Hey Oh) - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Here’s the truth: The value of the signal is equal to whatever is sacrificed in order to share it, and as society shapes itself around those signalers, the value of the signal degrades.
In the 21st century west, a tattoo means that at some point you had disposable income and a bit of pain tolerance. Cool, but not particularly subversive or costly. Baristas and bikers alike get their indelible ink injections now. Even face tattoos now fail to indicate much more than a general disdain for 9 to 5 work.
Contrast with some Victorian-era ink:
Nobody needs to be told what his tattoos mean. They mean mean. They mean outcast. If you were to tell this guy to pull you an espresso, you would get a mug smashed across your…mug.
There seems to be a bit of “concern” in general, about how phon/ongod’s signals will be received by the “mainstream”.
Fuck them unequivocally.
These signals are powerful. The fact that people who might agree with them in sentiment hesitate to express them is a powerful signal of weakness. The vaccine, the twisting of human sexuality, the indoctrination of the youth into all variety of self-loathing, self-destructive worldviews…the people who signal against these things become pariahs in polite society, but they say something meaningful in the process…They signal that they are dangerous to this thing that appears to have taken hold of the zeitgeist.
Phonon IS danger. Maybe it cuts down the machine and feeds its young with the blood. Maybe it just scares it into a more respectful posture. Either way, the moment the DAO stops wielding it with the “fuck you” energy is the moment it becomes subverted and incorporated into the giant downhill snowball that is the globohomo way of doing things.
Never forget that this is as much your world as it is theirs.
Phonon DAO is for the children.
Tips to phonongod.eth will be invested in bounties that advance the Phonon project.
Hatemail to phonongod@protonmail.com will be scathingly considered.
Targets for the marketcap of PHONON DAO remain:
$1b by Q2 2022, $12b by EOY.
On the high end, $300b marketcap in 3 years.