JZito

This song was written back in 2020, when Antifa was first destroying Portland. The violence I saw was a big turning point in the way I thought about everything. Some might call it being "red-pilled"; whatever it was, this song was the result. You can hear it and related songs on my 2021 album "Before it Gets Better" on all streaming services.

Engagement! Engagement! Engagement! According to Tristan Harris, creator of the documentary “The Social Dilemma”, social media is always driven by one thing: user engagement. It doesn’t really matter what that engagement looks like or what that engagement causes. The engines keep running and deranging society. The people behind YouTube and Facebook know it. And yet we keep going. What’s it doing to us? My song “Maniac!” and it’s lyric video attempt to bring light to that question. When I understood this, I killed my avatars. What will you do?

A painting of a song I wrote about tribalism