C. Sandbatch (Best Selling Poet)

Oh right, I published a book. If you don't like beating around the bush, I put the link also in the next comment.

@captive_dreamer You are, aesthetically, one of the best

I'm actually a genius for being the first person to figure out that you can put this tag on any post

Swampie be like "yea I did that once" I'm like "bro that was just Thursday night every week for two years after Katrina"

@swamp_ist This one is you

I did mushrooms with a Choctaw shaman on a Natchez burial mound in Mississippi and he mostly called me a liberal Yankee was very racist. We listened to a lot of civil war songs.

@vrgldh These are the best we got just have to get them to stop being fuckin nerds.

@CSandbatch Crypto people

Well I mean I've seen it work that way. One phone call and god money falls from the sky, but that only happens when like it's coming from the guy who made 80 million dollars with a concert ticket widget or a rolling papers company. The right has *zero* dudes that fast & loose & that's structural.

There's no such thing as right wing art, I am sneering as hard as I can at the term. Art is that which refuses to simplify & political reduction is a priori a simplification, so that which is art may not be right wing.

Getting a shot like that past the goalkeepers was already very difficult in the 1980s. There are no more Albert Erskines (Weinstein was the last of them) and there are so many more water hazards now.

Cormac is not "niche", but he is structurally a fossil. He had an editor (Albert Erskine) who was so legendary that no one could touch him who shielded him from the spreadsheet gang through economic failure after economic failure until "All the Pretty Horses" landed and he became turbo profitable.

@LegallyIronic Yea that's the alpha and omega

Well that's what I am getting at, who is picking up the phone. And it's implied than when you pick up the phone and that guy answers, you have something to say. So there's 2 things that are lacking most of the time, and it doesn't need to even be ROI. It just needs to be new and exciting, and what's not new and exciting is discourse on discourse which is really all anyone is doing. But that's if you're just *a guy* who does *a thing* which is already a tough sell, because you need to sell a story of what they could be if they receive patronage and I'd argue nobody has a firm idea of who they want to be. Like I could get on a phone and sell Sandbatch, especially now. But that's rare. And building off that, what's better is a team or a community. Cause investors don't invest in ideas, they invest in teams or groups who can do a thing. So to your original point, everyone has big ideas but big ideas are fairy dust. Who can execute a project? Also rare.

Functionally on the right there is zero of the psychological looseness and risk tolerance that creates the kind of asymmetrical investment schemes that create culture hegemony. Nassim Taleb is basically the only guy who has a schema for it. "you're going to lose 999 of 1000 rolls but that one is gonna be huge"

No one even knows it exists but it makes money

My publishing company btw makes money

The publishing thing is wild because I can't figure out how no one has realized the money in publishing is selling books to public schools. Like Big Gay Bear (an Imprint of Brown Cub) is a tax write-off for Pelican, who is selling hundreds of thousands of copies of the Great Gatsby a year. 2.40 to print and ship a book they're selling for 11.

@WanderMrPanda No that is quite literally the right use of me

@CSandbatch I think you just wrote your job description. You can be both a liaison and talent scout. Forgive me this offense.

Disregarding the absolute edge of this claim, I have said over and over the problem isn't "rich people who want to give money" the problem is no one, and I mean NO ONE. No no one. Not your favorite influencer. No one. No one has managed yet to intermediate between those people and the people who can use that cash to make things.

@raverstein1 Great right wing artists

@CSandbatch limp bizkit talks of this

This means they will look at people who have seen success inside the channels they're looking to build out. This, unfortunately, is *exactly wrong*

There are a lot of reasons for this, least among them that a successful FIRE economy veteran's idea of what an aesthetic graph should look like is pretty kitsch. They are also pretty institutionalized because they stand on top of a ladder that only holds them up because they trusted the instituonal rungs below them.