the school stuff is over

Now if I write anything it will probably be about toilets or something.

I am allowed to say it so I will.

The more "important" someone is, it seems the less their allowed to say. This must be because people gain standing for doing something. Then once they're respected for doing said thing, their expected to keep doing it. If suddenly they want to say something different than what they said to become so respected to where their opinion "matters" to everyone. There is a good chance that they'll lose the respect they originally gained. Someone whose opinion no one cares about can say whatever they want any one will care. This seems to be a problem if we want everyone to listen to new ideas, or at least if we want to change directions. We know we've done this historically though, so it seems, at least historically, that everyone has the capacity to be reasonable. However, if we have a cultural stigma around changing one's mind, we're not likely to advance.

my writing

it is at http://fileserver.art.utah.edu/~agarrett

Open mic night

An "open mic night" is essentially free speech as a performance art. Every few months the Salt Lake City Film Society holds such an event for local amateur directors to show their films to whoever wants to watch. I've gone twice before and genuinely enjoyed what some of what they had to offer.

Most of what they were showing this time was pretty terrible. They didn't have to be, but most of the films were far too long for what I could gather they were trying to accomplish. I remember one film was 10+ minutes of the what looked like the same clips over and over again from someone's vacation to Guatemala. The only two elements of such a film can possibly have are "Guatemala" and "looks", whatever they were trying to say about what Guatemala looks like was lost because 10 minutes is a really long time when you're just sitting there being told to think about nothing and only look at something that is totally confusing. Instead of showing me a photograph of something to illustrate what something looks like, they felt the needeto show me hundreds of confusing moving photographs that jerk around in bouncing-wrist-camera way while shouting unrelated music for the whole time. It was obnoxious that they felt they had the right to shove a thought or emotion into my head in such a way - instead of actually letting me observe something in a way that allows me to come the conclusion like I'm a intelligent person.

The real problem is, that people do such things because they think they're smarter than everyone else. If someone were to approach them to tell them that they were being ineffective, they would dismiss the argument as the result of some intellectual peasant. One who wasn't good enough to understand the depth of some illusory artistic plane they've created for them self.

tl;dr : if no one understands you, it isn't their fault.

PLEASE CHANGE BELIEFS

It seems that someone is trying to show you something with the internet.

Seems that they are using the internet for a specific reason. Someone planning to use truisms to express something, express something about truisms, study truisms, or be anywhere intellectually near truisms is going to have a bit of a time. You can't just make a book full of them (without sounding crazy.) a simple list doesn't really explain anything. Any other medium can't really employ such straightforward language realistically. Other than the internet, there isn't really any other venue that can convey what PLEASE CHANGE BELIEFS seems to be about.

The PLEASE section will put a truism up on the screen and then change it about every 5 seconds. If you have any sort of reaction to what it's saying and feel compelled to click on it it'll give you a little essay about a truism, but it'll be an unrelated one; It'll also keep changing every few seconds. So you can't read all of it. Different amounts and frequencies of reacting(clicking) will make the essays more or less "inflammatory" or change them to poems. eventually you'll be brought back to the beginning. CHANGE will let you pick a truism and change it! You'll type in what truth you want to change, and then it'll show you what everyone else tried to change it to, but the one on the front won't actually change. BELIEFS will ask you "Believe?" and present you with the list of truisms and check box for each one ( if you believe you can put a check there. ) Then it'll show you how many other people thought so too.

I think that:
PLEASE made these phrases seem very complicated, too much to understand - it didn't want me to be able to get all the information.
CHANGE made them absolute and unchangeable.
BELIEFS was there to universalize the list, and make me think of them as "truth."
So, the artist was trying to tell me that truth is absolute and meaningless, or at least too complex to be entirely understood.