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Culture whether people admit it, understand it or don’t even think about is a massive part of society. It defines who we are, it separates us from the algorithm and it gives us our soul. Culture will always play a big part in what we do at Hoodies and to read about our views and understandings of culture, please become a subscriber today.

Maths is great but so is writing

Ok maths is great, yayyyyyyy! Yes all kids should be able to code and be like Elon, but what about writing? What about being able to describe the human condition rather than allowing an algorithm to write it for us?

I am one of this people that had a play with Ai writing and found it to be, well, not me so as much as it could well have been a massive time saver for me I don’t use it at all. Personally using Ai tools to write anything should be illegal! If you need an Ai bot to write anything for you then you should be ashamed. Writing is a key building block of who we are and right now we need to remember that being human is what separates us from the monkeys and the algorithm.

Will it all be too late? Will the majority of people realise too late that we could once think and write for ourselves, but allowed it to kill off jobs? It goes beyond jobs though, if we lose the opportunity, the necessity to write then who are we? We’re no one, we are a race of people who can’t think for themselves and are told what to do and say. So if you can write your own material, for work or for the joy of just expressing yourself do it and remember how important it is to be human in a world where humans aren’t as important as they used to be.

What happened to style?

The Aston Martin DB6, the Louvre, the Paris Opera House, the Patek Phillipe Calatrava, the grandest of grand stair cases, the cobbled lanes of Edinburgh and the small shop fronts that sit along side them, the mosaic tiles laid in the Block arcade in Melbourne, the gothic architecture of major cities…all designs of soul, of talent and of function. Today? Cars that look the same, art spaces designed for the soulless, watches made by tech nerds, stair cases that go up, concrete and bitumen replacing the cobbled streets with stories to tell. Architecture that has no soul functionality yes but details that are timeless? No.

What happened? Why did we go from such ornate buildings and works to functionality? Yes I can understand the point of the change but in 1925 drains were the same as they are today except drains then were ornate and functional, today they’re just mildly functional. Ok, cost is a factor in the changes but are no longer impressed with the craftsmanship of detailed work and why did we lose sight of soul?

Incorporating into all things Hoodies now is my unflinching desire to remind the world that to function it needs a soul. It needs passion, it needs to share in person experiences and it needs to feel alive. We are watching who we are as individuals taken away from us and we shouldn’t! We shouldn’t allow tech billionaires to patronise us with UBI we should say hey fuck you no thanks we’re ok doing our own thing!

Soul, passion, creativity, music, art, writing, literature, culture…they’re vital to humanity because they’re our inner being and right now we must do everything we can to protect them. So join us on the journey to save our souls, because we are never giving up on what it is to be human!