I also believe that modern society has made it very difficult for quirky, eccentric, and unusual people to find their place in the world, since they are largely
marginalized by commercial interests.
I don't say that lightly, and maybe it's weird to associate what is essentially a marketplace with such warm feelings, but there are so many innovative,
interesting, often
marginalized folks releasing work here that it feels crucial and almost revolutionary in a field that is dominated (as so many fields are)
by large
commercial interests.