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The news lately is wretched enough to riot. As Eve recently joked, ten years ago, people used the internet to escape the real world. Now, it feels like we use the real world to escape the internet.
There's the climate disaster. Gangrenous politics. Wealth inequality. Lunatic conspiracies and psychopathic corporations proliferating while techno overlords prep their islands. Nobody in particular wants AI but AI is, sorrowfully, everywhere.
And yet, with a view to history, this isn't the first time the world has felt like it's about to collapse. Every civilization faces this. The world has "ended" thousands of times before. We're still here. What we are trapped in is, I feel, a common, self-imposed conspiracy to believe in our own doom. Which could be self-fulfilling. But what if it's reversible?
There's this word I've just learned of and love: pronoia. It's the antonym of paranoia. If paranoia is the belief the world is conspiring to harm us, pronoia is the belief that the world is conspiring to help us. For this second issue of Rewild Magazine, I asked our contributors to really take that in. What would it mean to reinterpret everything in your field of view as providence? What good could all this awfulness be leading us to? What if the dreadful conspiracy could transmute into something beautiful?
Below, the stories we wrote.
Rewild Magazine issue 2: Beautiful Conspiracy
- Mag stands for metabolizing art from grief
- Editor's letter
- The Clearing
- Blue skies and honor
- On outrage, numbness, and some kind of equilibrium
- How to make your campaigns hypercreative
Inside Fenwick
It's my ambition to give the Rewild project a real go this year. I'll be constantly tweaking and tuning all the pieces—magazine, newsletter, research portal, Slack group, and writing course.
Below: A new addition to the magazine, inspirational links.
Worth reading
A 15-minute cello reset. A stunning use of LinkedIn Live, if you ask me. When in doubt, be of service. So simple.
Fred dismantles a chimney. That's 200 ft tall. Using a hammer. With no net.
AI search is largely based on SEO. The consensus at this point is ... just keep publishing good work. Let the world change around you.
How writing has been systematically trivialized. Via Stratchery.
OKCool trend report. Stochastic, kitschy, and colorful, this report was divisive in our live course. Is this good writing? Is it intentional? Whatever your take, all must agree: It is arresting.
Where do children play? A well-pursued question that propels the reader through the story.
A24's empire of auteurs. While a tad hagiographic, this is a nice look into the film studio A24's abject refusal to give into movie money politics.
Auteurs are having a moment. Are you one?
The size of every living thing. So simple. So fun. Why don't B2Bs ever do something this pleasurable?
