Ducks of the World Tree

"As I watched the 29 year old husband of one of my dearest friends die, horrifically, the spectre of the American health insurance system was an ever-present additional torture. The for-profit health insurance system was  a vicious backdrop to everything else vicious and horrific that happened.  From the fact that he wasn’t diagnosed with cancer at all until it had spread everywhere because — well, because of insurance, to the fact that this fully insured, fully employed young couple also spent over $100,000 cash in a vain attempt to treat this cancer, all of it. All of the suffering. Every moment of it was monetized. And that makes me extremely angry."

Hello, and welcome to Ducks of the World Tree, the podcast that waddles across the manicured lawns of suburbia, flaps wildly in front of a speeding Tesla, and dives deep into the tepid waters of some kind of pompous drainage ditch masquerading as a natural water feature. In today’s tales of neurodivergent, animist wanderings through … Continue reading The Dopamine of the Daydream →

"We are already tortured into Fenriswolves. And it’s the context of modernity, of capitalism, the lack of awe in the world around us, the long hours, the inflation, the stress. It makes us want weird shit, we act like mutant murder greed monkeys, because of the shitty context that we can’t escape."  "Every second you spend not engaged in the game of overconsumption is a a second you are shrinking – in a good way. You become less Greedwolf Wisdomkiller and more Overlarge but maybe dumb Pupper."

A reflection on the interconnectedness of all life and the importance of reconnecting with nature and with each other. We aren't isolated individuals; we're parts of an enormous, fractal web of life. Artists are social detritivores, consuming and transforming society's pain and decay into something new and meaningful.