I think the bigger picture I’ve been carving out conceptually may go something like this: our country is clearly in a state of decay, whichever symbol set of conceptual filter you want to apply to break it down into specifics and statistics. As the dollar drops and the balance of power shifts to other parts of the world, the types of American business which continue to thrive will be - more than likely - big American media companies. American culture is really our only unique export as a nation because no other nation can create American culture like America can (for now). In that kind of environment, one heavily focused on American culture, but viewed through a world-wide business lens with Asian and European media markets dominating, then it will be fortuitous to be an on-the-ground American artist, performer, entertainer - what have you. But in order to make smart decisions as an artist, you need to become an alchemist about it, a tinker(er), an experimenter. You must go out and try it in the field and perfect it so that you continue to have and be a viable product as a human being (humaniculture, non-useful products will be scientifically eliminated), and all this business about datawakes and personal corporations and things has to do with preserving human rights and dignity in a time of potential chaos and emergency situations as Americans react to infrastructural and other more social changes required as standards of living radically shift, triggering waves of refugees, displaced peoples, the homeless, people squatting, stealing from trash cans and living like Robin Hood, as singing minstrels with bows and arrows and rosin to their fiddle bows. I’m concocting it all as a sort of sci-fi live action musical in my own inner perceptual framework. Maybe none of it really happens in reality and it’s all just an elaborate puzzle I’ve created in my brain to entertain myself while drifting through this world alone…