There is a coordinated, desperate movement from those with capital and power to convince the rest of us to give up.

To stop making art, to stop telling stories, to stop finding joy.

They want us to buy our stories, and our music, and our art, from them.

"don't bother creating something original, we'll just rip it off or feed it to our AI" they say, or "you can't tell that story, we own that story."

And... Mostly, that works.

I see so many people who no longer make things because they are afraid of how those things will be abused, or how they will be abused, or because they're just so tired.

I get it.

But I genuinely believe that there is no greater threat to the current capitalist order than people making things outside that system.

Every story I tell that does not have the blessing of some distant billionaire is a radical act. My goofy video game where a 75 year old cartoon character takes down an extractive mining operation on an alien planet is absolutely an act of defiance against capital.

Fear is natural, but allowing it to freeze us into inaction serves our enemies.