When Attention Becomes Substance
✦ what is given attention
begins to feel alive ✦
✦ ᛚ ᚦ ᛇ ✦
Why don’t I want to reveal how a trigger is made?
Maybe because I am a jealous hypnotist.
And I don’t want to share my subjects.
It’s not about money.
No.
It is something more ancestral.
Harder to name.
It is, quite simply, a matter of ego
There is something more wonderful than seeing that I am read,
that I am heard,
that I get likes.
Each like, each interaction
is almost nourishment.
A delicious energy.
Not sexual in the raw sense,
but intimate:
the flesh of the soul.
It motivates me further.
Almost like the symbolic blood
a vampire drinks in the silence of his crypt.
I see my followers and feel a feverish warmth —
diffuse and piercing at once — the same warmth I feel from certain subjects in the depths of trance.
This is not a milestone.
It’s a turning point.
Somewhere along the way,
some of you began to ask why we obey.
You walked through empty theaters
and songs that stayed in your bones.
You questioned the weight of words,
and you didn’t look away from the deep end of hypnosis.
This was never a lecture.
It’s a place that breathes with you.
you're not just reading.
You're inside something already in motion.
✦ Thank you for being here 🖤