wayvy weekly //// [why is presentation important?]

Everyone in the restaurant biz knows, we eat with our eyes. You could make the best tasting, most nutritious meal in existence but if it don’t look good then it’s not gonna sell. I don’t like it anymore than you do but rules are rules. Furthermore, it’s getting increasingly difficult to present ourselves and our ideas in ways that are appealing. We are often overworked, underpaid and underappreciated. This can lead to fatigue, resentment and without the proper tools and communities to uplift us, we can slip into a deep depression, or worse. I am not sure what can be done to rectify these things other than erecting alternatives. Hopefully, through these efforts I can learn ways to present my ideas to the people who they will resonate most with in ways they can connect to. The first step to doing that is acknowledging cultural and personal differences within others and ourselves in order to mitigate their adverse effects. I find myself sometimes not being able to separate the person I’m speaking to from how I feel about them, and sometimes it eschews the effective delivery of my message. However, everyday I persevere in the hopes that maybe one day I’ll get it right. I don’t know when or how it will happen, but I know nothing will happen if I remain the same or stay on my ass. I can’t just say I want to change, I need to act like I want to change and present myself as an agent of change, long before the changes manifest. To present myself well, I need to be in a stable, supportive environment where I can parse through my ideas and thoughts. In order to present my ideas well, I need to know myself, my audience and the context in which we are speaking. First impressions are extremely important, and the first impression you give someone is how you look, and intuitively, how you make them feel.

EMPTY PROMISES

On the flip side of good presentation, or rather the manipulation of good presentation, we have modern American Advertising. This was actually created in Britain by William Taylor in the late 1700’s. The basic premise is that there is nothing to back up the big talk and good looks that the advertisement promises, which leads to the complete degradation of the relationship. Once enough relationships collapse, society falls. This is reflected here in the wayvywork of the week, EMPTY PROMISES, where we see the foundation of society written in bold red letters, almost creating the background of the painting. Often times, and we’ve seen it multiple times in Asian countries where their attempts at social engineering leads to the collapse of the birthrate, which leads to the end of the society. Without children, we are nothing, and this modern ‘promise’ of modernity without children is slowly killing us. The black blood covers up them and their cries, poisoning the grass that will feed the next generation. This, ultimately leads to one giving up, as the collaged text reads: “He went crazy from what kills us all.” A lack of community, communication and truth. This is enough to send anyone mad, and dare I say we, in the west, live in a mad society. One where the homeless can’t even sleep on the streets outside of billionaire office buildings and where billions of dollars are pumped to propagate the issues they claim to be fixing. I don’t want to go crazy, so I hope this presentation is amenable to you. If I do, you’ll know, as I will stop caring about how I present myself and my ideas. That is the beginning of revolution. Until that day, please, stay wayvy baby <3.