Tentpole

Jim Henning
3 min readJun 12, 2024

The creative process has been a little difficult for me lately because I find that I’ve come to perpetually reside in Platitude City. The solution to all our problems as co-denizens are appalling in their simplicity. Conceptually, at least. Practical application makes my mind feel like it’s a custard caramelized under a map gas sucking blowtorch. Relentlessly I hash & re-hash this simple fact. I need you to understand that ‘We’ are ‘The West” and that so long as the boat doesn’t rock too much, we have already won. Justly.

So forget about the issue of the day for a moment. Forget about rich and poor. Black…

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