"For Many" by Shane Koyczan and The Short Story Long

Yes, it’s a brand new video. Ben Clarkson really took the reins on this one and I think he did a stellar job. The piece, For Many, is a special one for me. It wouldn’t exist had I not gotten a letter from an 8 year old boy in Vermont. Thanks for reaching out, young sir. Over the course of my life I’ve seen that we attach ourselves to standards. That in itself is not a bad thing… standards are important. They’re part of how we learn to elevate ourselves above ideas that we’ve outgrown. The problem is that those same standards can become anchors… they can be what holds us back from evolving further. So we must be constantly resetting our standards so we can pull ourselves forward and help ourselves move away from concepts that no longer serve us. Beauty has always been a strange standard… how can we make uniform something that everyone has their own opinion of? The danger in allowing beauty to continue being a standard is that it then becomes the way we assign value to people. I wrote this piece as a way to speak to that.

Featuring the track "For Many" from the new album "Debris" by Shane Koyczan And The Short Story Long.

"Debris" is available for purchase exclusively from my webstore: http://www.shanekoyczan.com/store/albums/debris