Manifest of the Curator
22/04/2025
Creativity in the Post-Information Era
Table of Contents
Prologue – We are at a tipping point: value is being redefined.
1. Knowledge is no longer power in a world full of AI.
2. The future belongs to curators of meaning, not collectors.
3. Style is more than appearance: it is a moral compass.
3.5. True style is not a consumer product.
4. The coming rage is tragic, not cynical.
5. Ultimately, only your gaze, your choices, and your style remain.---
Prologue – Where We StandWe are standing at the edge of the post-information era.
Maybe — hopefully — this will bring something back
that we have long lost:
the intrinsic value of ideas, objects, people.
Not everything needs to be bigger.
Not everything needs to generate money.
Not everything needs to be measured in likes, followers, profit.
The value of something could once again be determined
by the attention poured into it.
The love. The uniqueness. The effort.
Not by the approval of the masses.
Money, visibility, popularity —
these have become hollow measuring tools.
What is real has value in itself,
regardless of whether it ever goes viral.
That is the utopia I keep thinking about.
Maybe naïve. Maybe not.
But at least: real.---
1. The End of Knowledge as Power
We are living in the shadow of a transformation.
The era in which gathering knowledge was a source of value is coming to an end.
Years of study, storing facts, making connections —
these were once the foundations of status, influence, and legitimacy.
But in a world full of LLMs, AI, and instant access to all information,
that skill is no longer rare.
What once was extraordinary is now just a prompt away.
The expertise of those who dedicated their lives to the accumulation of knowledge
can now be reproduced in seconds.
The consequences are profound.
Not just for scientists, thinkers, and teachers,
but also for artists, musicians, writers, journalists —
for everyone whose worth was built on creation or insight.
What they make is not worthless because it is bad,
but because it is no longer rare.
The blow is not just economic.
It is existential.---
2. The Creator as Curator
In this new reality, value shifts.
Not toward production, but toward selection.
Not toward originality as something completely new,
but toward meaningful combinations.
The creators of the future are curators.
Not collectors of facts, but guardians of meaning.
They move through the museum of humanity —
art, literature, architecture, history, music, philosophy, science —
and weave something that feels right now.
Yes, they create.
But always with the past in their hands.
Always in relation to what came before.
Not out of duty, but out of play.
The Eureka moment no longer comes from new knowledge,
but from a new connection between existing knowledge.
Two things that already existed,
that in your hands suddenly say something greater than the sum.
That is creation.
Not ex nihilo, but ex relatione.---
3. Style as a Moral Profile
In this world of abundance, style is not embellishment.
It is a moral profile.
A form of attention.
A choice: what do I allow into my world?
What do I give my time, my gaze, my care?
Style is how you move.
Not on social media, but through life.
It is how you listen.
What you refuse.
Where you linger.
It is the way you bring yourself back to what matters.
In a time of infinite regenerations and imitations,
style may be the only thing that cannot be copied.---
3.5. Style Is Not Consumption
Do not confuse style with the latest makeup line or sneaker drop.
Style does not begin with what you wear,
but with how you move through the world.
How you treat others.
What you allow into your thinking.
How you respond to what you do not understand.
Style can manifest in makeup, shoes, words, or music —
but it is none of these things.
It is what lies beneath: your choices. Your attention. Your attitude.
Those who see products as the expression of style
forget where those products come from.
And how they manipulate you.
Style is not a series of preferences in an online shop.
It is how you resist everything that lulls you into passive consumption.
Not to rebel, but to stay awake.
Style is not taste.
Style is not only what you display,
but also what you refuse to let define you.
And if you forget that, style is no longer freedom,
but marketing.
Style is self-determination.---
4. The Coming Rage
But this shift will not happen quietly.
Those who have built their lives —
through dedication, depth, practice —
will feel betrayed.
Not only knowledge institutions will crumble,
but also cultural professions will feel their foundations shift.
Journalists, artists, musicians, writers —
those who built their lives around a unique voice —
will have to face the truth that their voice, technically,
can be simulated.
That their value is no longer self-evident.
That their craft has become reproducible.
And this realization will feel like a loss.
Not out of arrogance, but out of love.
Because they believed that what they did — what they gave —
mattered. Added something.
The rage that follows will thus be tragic, not cynical.
It will come from loyalty to a world
where depth, craftsmanship, and attention
still meant something.
But the era has tilted.---
5. What Remains
What remains, in the end,
is you.
Not your degrees.
Not your titles.
Not your production.
But your compass.
Your gaze.
The way you move through life —
what you touch, what you notice, what you ignore.
Your style.
The attention you give.
The choices you make when no one is watching.
That is not reproducible.
Not scalable.
Not programmable.