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Popular media trains us to be passive sponges. Break the circuit by making something ugly, imperfect, and private. A journal entry. A terrible drawing. A three-chord song. The act of creation bypasses the vacuumlexi because production does not scale algorithmically. The individual act of refusing the vacuum is political