I saw the rare pepe one on twitter.
I feel like many people, like myself, have a negative impression of pepe due to its co-opting by gross ideologies (eg groups that are labeled "alt-right" by msm, which makes me associate them with white supremacists, etc.) - even though I'm aware of how it started out ("feels good, man").
So, in that piece I see something that started out fine and was beat up by its captors and anyone with a stake in creating fear and separation (the MSM).
It's embracing a new technology who appears to be relaxed and enjoying it. Who is perhaps unaware of the negative undertones of the thing that is embracing it?
But that's the thing with decentralized anonymous things (ie blockchain tech), it takes all kinds, the good with the bad. Just how humans are capable of the most evil and the most good and everything in between. Free will allows us to choose how we act. So there is always the choice as to how these new technologies are implemented and used, and perhaps it's time for people in general to understand this principle (because I don't think many people do).
thank you for this reflection, like you, i also feel strange abut rare pepe, i actually repelled it a lot and did not understand or like it, it made me angry, so much so that i had to have a full conversation with meme conscious louis from archetype about it and after speaking with him i got a lot more clarity on this whole thing,crypto kitties etc, the last video posted we tap on this a bit. but ya thats the thing about free speech and free code right, and we need all aspects of it to reflect everyones emotions and where these are going, thats why visual art or creative expression is so transparent sometimes even more so that the technology itself. i mean i paint intuitively i had no idea what i was paiting when this rare pepe came out, i think im painting whatever needs to be said about that movement if that makes sense, its not always my own reflection but rather a collective message that must come out, as many of us chanell i think for each other no? much love sister! thank you