Ghost, Ironic

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Good morning, that wonderful way.

How’s the day? O/

Pictures of your life matching your dreams?

AI prompts of other people’s expectations of your life producing failed feedback to get in the way of actual you?

As AI gets more prevalent we have to start having more conversations on identity and the morality of the internet.

We must not forget or belittle the importance of physical touch in our lives. Sight, sound, taste and smell are as much a part of who you are as the sights and sounds of online that seek to represent you.

An internet thumbprint can never replace the physical touch and presence of you.

Breath to breath, body near body, eye to eye is always the best way to know someone. It is the foundation of any true personal relationship.

Internet business is for the internet. Life is for living and that means touch and air and the present of presence.

To be complete any personal relationship has to, from time to time, share the same sense of place.

If you never looked a person directly in the eye, shared the same air, you can never truly know them.

Image devoid of substance is a step removed from life and so lacks in experience.

That common saying after a friend relays a memory to you with an excited voice and the words fail to communicate their experience, “Guess you had to be there,” is the true experience of most of our online relationships.

An online portrayal of ourselves leaves a poor trail of evidence to portray who and what we actually are.

These words ironically from a writer with the avatar +he Ghos+.

Can you ever, regardless how refined and original they maybe, truly know me through these words?

No.

But you can know me better.

I could post image after image of myself on this site, but the pictures would no more represent me than the AI generated ones I use in every post.

An image that a man in his young 40’s, about 6’4’’, with eyes as blue as the skies he sings sits here scribbling these words to you, can only be a representative of the humbly handsome charismatic guy I am.

Not me, myself.

Should we meet on any street after you’ve read me you know me better by my words.

My words and images are not me; they are an expression of me. An expression called my ghost.

I’ve been writing for a long time and know myself and my views well. How I imagine life comes through in a clear original way.

AI can’t emulate me because only I make me.

Same as you.

AI can’t write a symphony like Beethoven if Beethoven never existed.

AI can’t write like Wynn without O/ me.

The drive and purposed spirit of Beethoven is in every note.

My drive and spirit is in each word here. It comes through in every syllable.

I worked hard so it could. I bring all the sincere truth of my thoughts and imaginings to every sentence, so you can best sense my meanings.

To create a story, a film, a song using another's image is to make a lie.

It is not Art. It is a bastardization of Art.

It can be a tool to help you better understand your craft but never expresses any experience of your true self. Other than your willingness to use another for your own personal gain.

To say a picture, story, poem, or song is your own using another artist’s work is the work of a coward scared to share their own experience in a clear unique way.

Unless the experience they’re attempting to express is the theft of another’s work to make a profit for themselves.

Art imitates life not art.

We genuinely express ourselves to share our experience to enrich yours, to help you not feel so alone, to give you new language to understand your own life; write your own story of you, paint your own picture of you, sing your own song of you.

There’s much more to be said regarding sincerity and morality in the Age of AI.

The conversation must begin with the Spirit. We have to get practical talking about soul if we’re to stay true to the purpose of living a good honest life.

What purpose is having a name if another can steal it for their own personal greed?

What purpose is having a body if another can contort the image of it online for their own childish shouts for attention to cover up their fear to share anything genuine from their own personal heart?

This is a main topic of discussion for me. There’s a lot more to say.

Standing up for the power of the spirit, for the reality of the Ghost in each of us, is part of my life’s work.

My name, like every poets word, is no coincidence.

In this AI Age someone’s got to have our spirit’s back.

Join me, be true to you the best you can with what today has to offer, be your story of you intentionally, take care, and make a wonderful day.