PART TWO

the word era implies an eventual end. that’s okay.

it’s a phase, mum. no, you don’t get it mum, it is a phase.

a phase is a transition.

the evil era is defined by its transitory nature.

the word transition implies an end state. the evil era's end state, or goal, or destination, is to make art that is—as defined in part one—strange, earnest, unapologetic, unyielding, confident, vulnerable, beautiful.

to make art that is so hyper-specific that no one would get it except you, your friends, and your ungovernable peers across the world. strangers united in strangeness. fuck the rest.

it won't last forever. that's okay. it will falter, but what remains will always be real.

not everyone will remember it, but you will.

mum, it’s a phase and im dead serious about it.