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Antonio Castellaneta's avatar

“Devotion doesn’t scale” lands because everything before it has reduced human attachment to metrics and variables. I like the idea that loyalty is not betrayed so much as simply made irrelevant by the system. That feels colder, and in some ways more frightening.

Sam Oldman's avatar

We wake up to the irrelevance way too late. 🫪 Thanks for your reflection, Antonio.

Ritagail Burleson's avatar

Yep.

Sam Oldman's avatar

Hi Ritagail 👋 Good to hear from you.

Jason McBride's avatar

This was fantastic! I loved listening to your reading! You really make me want to up my audio game with my own work. So good!

Sam Oldman's avatar

Hi Jason! Thanks, I sometimes think if I should leave the audio off, since it has powerful take on the direction and maybe takes the spotlight from the writing, a bit.

On the other hand, these are fun to create and makes dystopian poetry a bit easier to grasp.

Just to be clear, it's not my voice. I create these soundscapes in Suno, for the extra depth.

Sometimes it's more like a reading , like here, sometimes it's closer to song. Cannot bring myself to call it music, therefore I call these 'soundscapes'.