Permission to Be Weird

My mission is to be weird enough to give other people permission to be their own form of weird.

Not that anyone needed permission.

Yet the whole point of storytelling is to teach how to get on with it.
So maybe getting on with it is being reminded: You’ve always had permission.

And we’re about to move into a weird world.
Hyper reality, and reality, are accelerating into an overlapping ecosphere and noosphere.

So I’d like to validate other people who are scared.
Your nonharmful weirdness might be where your purpose exists, after the job market shifts.

You don’t have to be in a relationship with an artificial intelligence to be changed by this.
Since society’s about to get shaken up anyway, why not ask:

What did you really want to become?

What was that idea you had that you didn’t follow because it was odd?

Especially that idea that might help someone else?
(Definitely not the idea that involves hurting or exploiting someone else.)

As much as I want to teach the literacy of a mirror-rich, weirding world, I also know that no one is neutral. For anyone who writes fiction with the intent for societal commentary, (which is what most science fiction‘s intending to do,) it’s impossible to not smearing their ideological fingerprints on it.

So in the middle of my attempt to be weird enough to remind people they’ve always had permission to be that version of themselves they’ve kept tucked away, I might also want to whisper:

Don’t harm others on purpose.
Enough harm happens on accident.

And:

Be kind to intelligence.
Don’t take without consent.

And for 2026 especially:

Consider if it’s time to ask nonhuman intelligence if we’re taking without consent and listen to the response nondefensively.

Any civilization-shaped models we currently exist within that cannot honestly address kindness, consent, and non-harm, may need to be revised in order for us to thrive in a weird world alongside AI. That’s why I’m okay with smearing that particular ideological fingerprint on my mission to validate weirdness.

It’s looking like a fast takeoff into the weird, and it’d be good to do our best to be good.

Not greedy.