Rainbow Bridge is a personal project ...
... where are I try to share my subjective queer experience, on the background of the current scientific knowledge, reflections in art that I resonated with, though also the "grounded" spirituality - one that does not attempt to replace or deny the facts, but enriches the human life with the qualities of imagination, broader perspective, listening to the stories, finding peace with one's own, or the deeper insight into oneself. I communicate my views on the contemporary way of life and the topics close to me, all formed by this optic.
... the primary impulse was to address the blank or silent spaces within the social discourse. I try to open the themes that I miss in the mainstream, those it lacks or tends to avoid. At the end, many of those that I sketched here just for myself, slowly seeped into the mainstream over the past years and decades. I do not deny that I have also visited some cul-de-sacs.
... I write, because I feel the typical creative insistence, the topics ask for attention in a specific form of personal testimony, the one I do not find around me. I feel the pressure of daily frustration from the progress slowed down, I vent the anger for our unnecessarily incomplete lives. In a form that attempts to be inspiring and not destructive in its effect on the others. I invite the reader to think, I invite to discuss, I invite to resonate, I invite to disagree.
... writing - away from the battle for a speaking time or the rush to keep the attention of the listener - is my preferred communication channel with the world. I feel the most sure here, while trying to express and grasp the topics in the depth and complexity I find familiar. A bit stubbornly, I try to resist the culture of "hastened communication", shortened attention span, bullet point thinking, catchy advertisement-style phrases and superficiality.
... in the times when "everyone speaks and no one listens", in the era of uninhibited consumerism of the processed information, in the age of "alternative media", when the society polarizes atomizes, when the hybrid information wars and the split between laicity and experts breaks down the social fabric, when the terms as "middle ground", "ability to doubt", "out of mainstream", "self-proclaimed experts", or "wordsmiths" - are associated predominantly with disinformation and conspiracy theories, I step on the thin ice of free thinking.
... this website is partially a record of my personal development, it ran its course since the first articles that I published, it still takes place even now. Written texts remain static, while my views of things and opinions develop further. The ability to respond to the new impulses, evaluate them with a healthy soberness and involving imagination, to learn continuously and to not freeze with one "perfect" theory of everything - are the personal qualities I value.
... I have undergone shifts on the left-right, conservative-liberal, consumerist-ecological, or esoteric-mainstream spectrum. I look at the world from a generalist perspective and take interest in the interdisciplinary connections among the topics. I examine the possibilities of understanding across the societal layers, insight into the thinking patterns of "those others", and empathy towards their stories.
Basic information on the project of Rainbow Bridge:
Who writes here? What qualifies him? (personal dimension of the project)
What are his aims? Why this way? (intention, challenge, vision)
What is the difference? What's the added value? (guidelines and values)
Current works:
Letters to Unicorns. Lost in the queer spaces - limiting and limited in their variety as the colors of the rainbow flag. Going beyond compliance, normalcy and consumerism.
A Box of Glitter. Basic infomation on a queer tribe of Radical Faeries, who embrace their difference as a gift, a potential to harvest for the benefit of wider community.
Soul's Keywords. A vocabulary of the world beyond reason, beyond linear logic, beyond give and get. What tickles, moves and feeds the incomprehensible source of life?
Letters to Europe. Torn between idealism and populism, liberalism and conservativism, democracy and strong leaders, hopes and fears, pull towards the East and the West.
Frustrated Fluffy and Fierce Spontaneous responses to the topics of the day. You know those moments ... when you can't let the thought go, until you "give it what it deserves."
What is alive must change. This website gets constantly rewritten and updated. I try to offer perspective that is matching my current image of the world, but acknowledge the path I have walked to get there and imminent change awaiting around the corner. Even if you find yourself in disagreement, you've just encountered a moment in my journey. Please take it with that understanding, reserve and humor. I do. I learn as well - and disagree with myself quite often. Contradictions are my world. I live with the process of constant revisiting of my opinions... rather than holding onto the fixed beliefs.
In the war of opinions, why would anyone write letters and stories?
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