three-wise-monkeys
an uncomfortable web artifact

Three Wise Monkeys

see no evil hear no evil speak no evil modern world

This site is not a feed. It will not optimize your experience. It will not ask you to subscribe. It will not reward your attention.

Choose a monkey. Each page is a different kind of refusal.

SEE NO EVIL Overload, then “blindness” as a choice.
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HEAR NO EVIL Noise everywhere. Listening nowhere.
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SPEAK NO EVIL Self-censorship: automatic and polite.
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Design notes

Everything is intentional: friction, delay, redaction, and refusal. The UI behaves like the world it critiques.

Rule 1 Nothing is “smooth”. Comfort is part of the problem.
Rule 2 Interaction is meaning. Clicking reveals ideology.
Rule 3 One accent color. Attention is rationed.

Tip: Use this as a base, then swap in your own text, images, and symbols.

SEE NO EVIL

The modern eye is trained to scroll. Not to notice. Not to understand. Information becomes decoration. Outrage becomes wallpaper.

Drag panels. Notice how quickly meaning turns into clutter.

What this page is doing

It manufactures “too much” so your brain reaches for the fastest coping strategy: not seeing.

Selective blindness Not ignorance. A defense mechanism.
Scroll logic New replaces true. Volume replaces clarity.
Compression Complexity flattened into shareable panels.

HEAR NO EVIL

The world is loud. The timeline is louder. Listening is slower, so it’s treated like a luxury. Noise becomes proof. Silence becomes suspicion.

sound: on
Even muted, the captions keep talking.

What this page is doing

It replaces understanding with constant commentary. You can mute it. The discourse continues anyway.

Noise as identity Volume becomes a personality.
Listening as risk To listen is to be changed. The feed hates that.
Caption reality Words overtake events. The story eats the thing.

SPEAK NO EVIL

Speak carefully. Speak correctly. Speak in approved shapes. The safest sentence is the one that says nothing and still gets applause.

We live inside systems that train us to be careful instead of being honest.

So we pre-redact ourselves, smiling while we disappear.
Tip: hover the text above. Watch it decide what you are “allowed” to say.
Post rejected.
Your message contains content that could cause discomfort, complexity, or consequences. Please rewrite it as optimism, a joke, or silence.

What this page is doing

It makes censorship feel like etiquette, and self-erasure feel like “safety”.

Pre-redaction We censor before anyone asks.
Soft enforcement Polite rules, sharp consequences.
Approved shapes Only certain emotions get verified.

QUIET

If you refuse to see, refuse to hear, and refuse to speak, what exactly survives?

Not the world. Not the truth. Just the machine, humming politely in the background.

What did you ignore today?

Built as a base. Replace text with your own thesis. Add imagery you own. Tighten the symbolism.