Interesting links, papers, and tiny thoughts

Released March 2019. Found its true audience during 2020 pandemic.

Hindia’s “Evaluasi” gained renewed popularity when it was used in social media Reels and Shorts during the pandemic, with many people finding the lyrics relatable as “they were living from day to day.”

This fascinates me—art created from personal struggle suddenly becoming collective processing tool when the world shared similar emotional territory.

“Evaluasi” means evaluation/reflection. Released in 2019 as personal documentation of daily survival and self-assessment. By 2020, millions of people found themselves literally evaluating their lives day by day.

The pattern: Authentic personal expression often predicts collective need. Artists processing individual experience create resources the community discovers it needs later.

This connects to Hindia Branch thinking about personal art serving social function, and Memetic Cultivation —how ideas that help individual processing become cultural tools during crisis.