The Love Flow Station

The year is 2019. I’m delivering pizzas while trying to freestyle over lofi hip-hop beats (to relax/study to) because I was trying to improve my flow so I could better fit in at this music studio I was spending time at. I did not fit in. I went down the same road I had gone a thousand times in the year or so I had been delivering pizzas. Nothing unusual. That’s where I found The Love Flow Station. Going down that same road I had gone down a million times before. For the first time in my whole life, I was actually present, actually able to see the sign right in front of me.

Lovelaceville Florence Station Road West is far too long of a street name for a road sign, so the road sign is abbreviated to “Lov-Flo-Stat Rd west”. However, up until this one fateful day, this road was not love flow station to me yet. It was just lovelaceville, that’s how we would shorten the name at the place I was delivering from so that’s how it existed in my mind. I’m taking a right onto lovelaceville road. Until I really saw the sign. Not only did the road transform into love flow station, a new entity was born into this world: The Love Flow Station. The Love Flow Station has changed drastically over time, so I’d like to first tell you the history of what it was to me at first, and then tell you what it has become as of now.

In 2019, I was not yet a philosopher. I was a musician with a deep love for New Age spirituality. The Love Flow Station was not originally a philosophical vehicle, as it would later become to me, but instead a musical vehicle. The Love Flow Station was originally a concept album. The following is the best summary I can provide of what I developed as the plot to The Love Flow Station, a plot I ultimately felt incapable of putting music to. 

In a future, desperate time where climate change has ravaged the Earth leaving humanity in chaos, a few powerful families have continued to operate automated self-reliant facilities with strong defense systems surrounding the perimeter to keep all the undesirables out of their oasis. This is where Oscar Tausin grew up. Inside one of these facilities as the son of one of these powerful families. Oscar grows up wondering why he can’t go outside, believing everything was ok out there. One he comes of age, he can’t accept not seeing outside anymore and threatens to destroy the food supply and kill the all if they don’t let him go, so they free him with a gas mask and a robot that will defend him. Oscar walks across the apocalyptic wasteland, this robot killing everyone who desperately charges at him, learning the wicked truth of what the world has become and how horrible it was this truth was kept from him and that his family could be so selfish that they wouldn’t help anyone but would, instead, mindlessly low them down. The story after this is… vague, blurry, doesn’t make much sense and is just generally a bunch of woo. Basically, Oscar learns to meditate so hard or whatever that he is able to harmonize with the “Love Flow Molecule” that transcends above space and time and exists within everything. Once he’s achieved this enlightenment, he’s able to create a pure goodness not just in the present, but in the future and the past? I was never able to figure out how to make that sound as good or cool as I wanted it to be. 

So yeah, that was the story of the album! I worked this whole plot out and by the time I got to a certain point, I just accepted I couldn’t make good music out of it, it just had to be a book. I never got much farther with this idea as I didn’t have much interest in authoring a book and I was still attempting (and failing) to make my way as a musician in the local music scene. Eventually, as I became more of a leftist, I did become disillusioned with the message at the heart of the plot being, basically, saving the whole universe by just sitting down and going om super hard. The Love Flow Station was a dormant concept I loved dearly that floated around in my head for many years…

Until last year. I decided I wanted The Love Flow Station to be a YouTube Channel. At this point in time, I had given up music for philosophy and fallen in love with video essays. The motivation beyond a lot of the video essayists I was into was to try to deradicalize young people who were beginning to be influenced by alt-right rhetoric. I loved this motivation, but by this time there was a question beginning to pop up: what about our own flaws? Why are we dedicating so much energy reaching across the aisle when we have a lot of bad leftist narratives we could work on? And that’s what I wanted The Love Flow Station to be. A video essay channel with its most foundational mission statement being that it was going to be a channel dedicated to improving the narratives amongst the leftist video essay space instead of attempting to deradicalize those being swayed by alt-right narratives. This is still something I want to do, but haven’t done yet. What I will say is that if The Love Flow Station becomes a YouTube Channel, it will not just be content about lefty topics, but it will generally be about improving narratives. I have been in the process of writing an essay for an embarrassingly long time about birthdays, for example. Not a very leftist topic, but something I think we need better narratives for.

Today, The Love Flow Station is born as this blog! It basically aims to be the written version of what I wanted it to be as a YouTube Channel. It is a blog with the intention of improving narratives, but also… it’s kinda just a place for me to journal philosophically because that place for me for years has been Facebook and, well… Facebook is a toilet.

Welcome, everyone, to The Love Flow Station! It means everything to me that you are reading these words! I hope this entity becomes something on the internet you come to love as much as I’ve loved this entity for the last six years.