I want to vanish
Substack seems like a really good idea. It allows for all kind of interesting content and it’s now facilitating audio and video formats, even Livestreams. I think the platform is really good and expanding. So it seems perverse to say that I am thinking of leaving it.
I do my best to put out regular content here, often three times a day. I make most of it available for free. However creating it takes up time and I am aware that very few reading this are prepared to pay the modest £5 a month for exclusive access to ALL content. That depresses me.
“I want to vanish, this is my fondest wish
To go where I cannot be captured, laid on a decorated dish
Even in splendor, this curious fate
Is more than I care to surrender, now it's too late.”
Maybe I shouldn’t write this when in such a mood but at least I am being open and honest. Perhaps my mood may lighten.
Trying to counter the hellish mainstream media is hard work and unless we become more active in supporting each other, I think we will fail.
Well I for one really appreciate your content and innermost thoughts David. You are much too valuable to vanish! So let’s hope more people discover you and are willing to cough up a fiver ( the price of s coffee in many well known establishments!)
It’s best used as a place to blow off steam or shape some thoughts etc but it takes time to build. Three years and have 200 subs and don’t charge anything. Meanwhile a low level chef moved from instagram to here and within a day as 10k followers. It’s frustrating but with X such a dismal place to engage anymore and instagram even harder it’s my only space to vent and wax lyrical. Just use it as a personal space David. I admit I’m overwhelmed by it lately as so many people are now flocking here I can’t pay or afford all the subs.