Why Indignified?

Reactions to the Indignified Manifesto and what to expect moving forward

First, I’d like to thank the nineteen beautiful people who have subscribed to Indignified. You get it, there is no doubt about it. Why indignified?

It’s the question I’ve been asking myself since I was a child. Why is this world so demeaning? So painful? So humiliating? So insistent on crushing curiosity, demeaning those who dare to question why we continue to do things the same way as our ancient ancestors did, heaping indignity on those who aren’t in positions of power and gleefully waiting for those in power to inevitably fall so we can do the same to them. We live like crabs in a bucket. Like rats in a cage. Like hamsters on a wheel.

I’d rather be a crow. Crows have never been known as a dignified animal. They are scavengers, they are messy, they are loud, they are smart as hell. Crows don’t care if you admire them. They are smarter than the average yappy dog. They are happy - gleefully so. They are indignified and they don’t care. I’m learning so much from the huge Hokkaido crows here at Satoshi Manor. You know how to get a crow to do something? Find a way to make it want to do that. Not have to do that, want to do that.

So, why indignified? Because of all the things that are holding you back, I can tell you with certainty that your dignity is a major player. Your dignity, the dignity of our nations, the dignity of our civilization - they are all bullshit. I am free because I am indignified.

I think a quote from “The Notebooks of Lazarus Long” by the great Robert A. Heinlein sums things up quite nicely - for both men and for women.

Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.

You don’t have to be indignified all the time, but it should be something that you don’t need to wear like a layer of skin. It should be optional, not mandatory.

For those who have paid subscriptions - there’s a special treat below the paywall. I’m sharing a link to a very rare copy of my first book which has come up for sale on eBay. I’ve had a lot of people ask me where they could get the first edition through the years - and most often - the only copies that come up are priced in the hundreds or thousands of dollars. It’s rare, because at the time it was published (2003) I agreed to allow it to be made into an ebook and there was no digital rights management available at the time. The PDF was shared on multiple free websites and it was downloaded more than 100k times. Very few hard copies were sold - possibly 1000 total and most of them at readings and book signings I did across the Pacific Northwest (or in bars where I was selling books to pay for drinks). Anyway, the copy that has come up is priced at $13! I’m tempted to buy it myself because I only have one copy. Instead, I’d rather give you guys the chance to grab it. Feel free to flip it if you want to - I’d love to see you make more than your paid subscription cost!

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What to expect moving forward?

AI Thoughts and Stories, recommended reads.

In the lead up to publishing The Indignified Manifesto, I ran an experiment by writing a prompt for my own origin story - then writing it by hand - then using various AI models to write a story from the same prompt. Each of them a different flavor of indignified.

AI is going to be a big topic in this newsletter. The world has completely changed but most people haven’t even noticed yet. Not only will I be sharing my thoughts on AI and running experiments with various models, I will also be sharing stories that I think hit hard in a civilizational sense.

You must read these - I’m 100% serious.

Deep Fakes Ruining Lives in South Korea

Thinking Intelligently About Machine Intelligence

Will the Humanities Survive AI?

My Fiction and Writing

I will be sharing some of my newest fiction with paid subscribers. This is unpublished work that can range from the controversial to the almost pornographic (in an art house Henry Miller kind of way). I will be rereleasing most of my books under my new name - here first. There will be futurist, utopian, and anti-capitalist, anti-exploitation rants. For paid subscribers, I will be sharing strategies and tactics to break free. Things that I have never shared. I am often asked how I live my life, how I pay for things, how I maintain my lifestyle. I will be sharing those things, but not for free. Why not for free?

Simple. Baby boomers looking for cheap accommodations ruined Couchsurfing (along with some other factors tbh). Trust fund kids in $100k sprinter vans stole all the good free parking spots and destroyed van life as a way to live in the USA. Instagram exploited every secret happy location it could and turned amazing places into crowded messes. Sharing things like this for free ruins them for everyone. I’ll never make that mistake again. My first book gave away all the secrets to rough living at that time - thankfully, most of those secrets are no longer viable - but I have plenty more.

Audio and Video from the Indignified Side

I will be using more audio and video formats moving forward. People don’t like to read any more. In fact, I sort of doubt that anyone has read this far..

We will build this movement together. Thank you for being on the journey with me.

I am indignified.

~CD Familias , Satoshi Manor, Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan