How can we push back against the churning out of mindless, vapid crap just for the sake of meeting academic or professional requirements to pass on to the next hoop to jump through? I took a storytelling class in Las Vegas that operated like group therapy. The size was limited to fewer than ten students, and during each session the professor would dim the lights and each of us would get up to share the stories of our most transformative moments. We would have a prompt, such as our "most reluctant" moment, and we'd trace that back to where it began in our personal timeline. We'd then start the story there, and describe the events leading up to the most reluctant moment, or whatever the prompt was, with as much vivid detail as possible, out loud, in front of our classmates and the professor. The technique used to unlock and bring forth those materials is incredibly useful for training artistic insurgents for psychological operations. Because of the way the environment was curated, inhibitions to vulnerability, like sharing powerful emotions and private information, were temporarily lifted. Something as simple as dimming the lights, setting some ground rules with a small group of people who are there for a shared purpose, and giving a prompt created a ritual experience that could be repeated with interesting and fruitful results each time, including tearful, hysterical catharsis. We need more of that.