II. Why Subscribe?

The truth is, I don’t know. I don’t know why you’d subscribe, I don’t know why you should care about reading a blog by “a guy called Shane Lim”, much less pay for it, but alas, here we are, the future is now and digital economies are a thing, and you can support strangers on the internet financially, which I think is a good thing in the long run, for capitalism, and for you and me, because it means we remove ourselves from relying on corrupt power structures for our survival, battling in rigged arenas where ultimately no one wins, not us, not our employers, not even our governments and politicians, who’ve clearly lost the plot, and no longer understand why they go to work, or hold elections and press conferences, because the system is in disrepair, and the narratives too thin to suspend our disbelief, because the narratives have been written by people who will soon retire, people whose minds were conditioned and programmed by newspapers, television, broadcast, and radio, not the immediacy and scale of the internet our children are now born into, and so our capitalist overlords have built an ark for us, the thinkers and readers, the most dangerous yet most necessary, if we are to keep civilization in advance, without risking too much turbulence in the markets gridlocked to ultimately fail when financial bubbles knowingly created by the very institutions who profit off the exploitation of our time and labor explode every ten years, as we all pretend to be surprised when a handful of men in suits are rounded up, scapegoated and charged, before the whole cycle begins again, because no one knows how to break out of a system built upon little white lies, which can now be clarified instantly by your average ten year old on his mobile phone as they unfold.

So if you think a circular economy is beneficial for us, one that keeps the prying eyes and fingers of corrupt governments and corporations from interfering with our lives, then take a little away from your pay check and put it into mine, and if enough people do this then I’ll be able to put a little from my pay check into the hands of more writers and thinkers and readers, and if we do this enough then the money that first came from your company pay check is laundered, made clean, and now sustains people who don’t actually want to destroy society, but simply want to write, and read, and learn, and create, and travel, and connect with fellow human beings, and hopefully if we all thrive, and lead happy, healthy, comfortable lives, then a solution may naturally arise, one that would help us all break away from the system no one knows how to break out of, the one you hear about in “the news”, in the algorithms on your phones, the narrative you didn’t ask for but cannot get away from, and maybe then we’ll develop a new narrative, one that is simpler, more sustainable, and closer to how human beings were designed to live.

I write, I read, I take pictures, and I pay attention.

This is my contribution. Tell me yours.