The Creative Ecosystem & Affirmation Fatigue

By Lloyd Lewis

There’s a point in every creative’s life where you can no longer pretend a place, a platform, an economy of encouragement, a digital village fête of “You’ve got this!”is anything other than a biosphere. A living, wheezing, self-regulating ecosystem full of organisms that feed, feed on, parasitise, pollinate, or quietly decompose the remains of everything said and done.

Call it what it is:
A forest.
Some of us grow; some of us rot; some of us pretend to be trees while secretly plugging into a petrol generator round the back.

And so, for the sake of clarity (and to save time for all of us with limited lifespans), here’s the ecosystem as it really is: Consumers, Producers, and Decomposers.

No nice metaphors.
No positivity pyramids.
No nonsense.

Just the truth, with a side dish of existential dread.