Description: Writer, filmmaker, parent, husband. I like to sing a little too. weskim.com
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OffBeat premiered my single The Future off of the forthcoming Interiors (coming atcha June 25th)
Some thoughts on this: 1) I’m inclined to agree with my friend who shared this on Facebook that the attainment of extreme wealth is not a guarantee of greater wisdom or perception regarding the future of humankind. Where it all goes wrong is the ridiculously disproportionate societal power this extreme wealth gives to a small number of people whose very wealth is supposed to be taken as a proxy for their fitness to wield it wisely. 2) What extreme wealth does seem to guarantee is an almost pathological disr