UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship

by M.J. DeMarco

Your soul will resonate its desires and discontent when faced with quiet or minimal distraction; for example sleeping, showering, or during a massage.

Sunday evening is the litmus test for a SCRIPTED existence—how do you feel about the impending Monday? Excited? Or dour and cheerless?

The problem is not people being educated. The problem is that they are educated just enough to believe what they’ve been taught, but not educated enough to question what they’ve been taught.

Steve Jobs said, “Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.”

Herds are organized for economic purposes: slaughter, shearing, milking. Herd with the crowd and you will get predictable results designed for the crowd.

What presumptive rules, social mores and cultural norms have you followed without question? And have those constructs given you the life you dreamed?

The SCRIPT is conventional wisdom directing a conventional life, dispensed by either a compromised party of convention or a profiteering party of prejudice.

You see, like Steve Jobs, who wasn’t trapped by the dogma of conventional wisdom, the rich get richer because the rich aren’t bound by the SCRIPT—they’re the ones profiting from it.

The proliferation of SCRIPTSpeak is not random. It is either autonomically regurgitated by a compromised party or meticulously orchestrated by a prejudiced party. No matter who’s the parrot, you should listen to neither.

If I accept average advice from average people living average lives, can I expect to be anything but average?

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

THE HYPERREALITIES: The SCRIPT’s illusions, the hyperrealities reinforce your obedience and captivity through deception, distortion, or diversion.

TEMPORAL PROSTITUTION: Seeders and their hyperrealities sanctify a criminal trade for your most precious asset: your time.

THE LIFE PATHS: The illusion of free choice and deciding your slave owner: Door A, the Sidewalk; or Door B, The Slowlane. Both lead to the slaughterhouse. Neither makes you the boss of you.

DISTRACTION: If you’re distracted, the SCRIPTED OS stays hidden. M.O.D.E.L. Citizenship becomes a foregone conclusion.

In every case, the SCRIPT’s epidemiology starts with family. As a child, you’re as defenseless to imprinting as a toddler is to his stinky diapers. Its first upload comes from your parents because they too are living by the same SCRIPT. They want what they think is best for you, and unfortunately, what’s best in their eyes is “normal” and “safe.”

If the people in your family or peer group are NOT happy and living a life you would like to lead, their life advice should be considered cautiously.

the educational system conditions you to accept an authoritative structure requiring permission: At 8:00 a.m., you need to be in homeroom; math is at nine and gym at ten. Eat lunch at noon. Ask permission to piss. Do as you’re told, stay in a single-file line, and don’t talk unless asked. At work, you do the same. You follow instructions. Do as you’re told. Unplanned absences are frowned upon. Any weekday freedom requires permission: personal days, vacations, or an early recess to watch your kid’s baseball game.

Instead of exposing our kids to free thought, educational institutions are now full-fledged indoctrination camps pushing ideological agendas from ideological administrators.

You see, there was a time when working hard earned a trophy on stage; now you get them for showing up with your hands in your pockets.

The truth is, these snowflakes shit their Pampers when anything threatens their coddled lexicon—a contrary viewpoint, an opposition idea, or anything divergent to their sequestered safe spaces.

Sad, but college campuses have degenerated into expensive brainwashing clinics for SCRIPTED groupthink, a petri dish incubating mollycoddled adults ill-equipped to question their puppet masters who thread their strings.

the SCRIPT teaching our kids to think inside the box of conforming mediocrity, but it’s imbuing them with the false expectation that they can plow through life doing the minimums: show up, text, post selfies…. Do so and you can win all that life has to offer. The awakening is, indeed, rude.

the SCRIPT teaches our children that their popularity and “coolness” are driven by consumption: what they wear and what they drive.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

you are not what you own, but you can be owned by what you own.

college degree doesn’t produce jobs out of thin air. It entitles you to NOTHING. I repeat, NOTHING.

The truth is, we are livestock. Hosts for a diabolical purpose. Free-range slaves. Like free-range chickens, we roam free in our container (a country), provided the illusion of freedom, but we are still held captive for our eggs—our economic impact. If you leave, you need permission (a visa) and your leave is limited to whatever the visiting container (country) allows, usually ninety days.

Money truly is no longer backed by gold but backed by blood—you—and the SCRIPT administrates the chattel. In

money TODAY is more valuable than money TOMORROW. When these calculations are made, future money is discounted and valued less.

The things I wanted, specifically my amp, really didn’t cost money; they cost me fragments of my life.

Free time today is better than free time tomorrow. Youthful time sold today (working five days a week) so you can buy elderly time later (retirement in your twilight) is a bad bet.

Under temporal prostitution, the things you buy cost more than just money—they cost future fragments of your life, transforming FREE time into INDENTURED time.

Underneath the SCRIPTED delusion is the idea that success can be bought at a mall, parked in a garage, or cashed on a Friday. Few realize that every dollar owed shortens the leash and tightens the collar around their neck.

The problem with my car extravagance wasn’t the payments but the consequences of the payments: It trapped me in a job I hated, a job that sapped my spirit and quarantined my entrepreneurial pursuits.

Children necessitate consumption, where it’s no longer a fashionable choice but a requirement. You need to buy diapers, food, health care, and the latest video game—and you do it for at least eighteen years. Congratulations, you are the SCRIPT’s new best friend.

Marriage and children could be the most important part of your human experience. It’s worth waiting until you’ve discovered your true self, where you can give your spouse and kids everything you’ve got, not just a kiss on the cheek and a weekend.

Hope I have a job—not just a job but a good job. Hope the economy gives me that good job for the next fifty years. Hope the stock market yields 10 percent a year and doesn’t crash. Hope the housing market doesn’t implode and erase my equity. Hope I’m alive by retirement. Hope I’m healthy. Hope the government doesn’t hyperinflate my savings or the currency in which it is denominated. Hope the government can continually fund a bankrupt Social Security program.

Scarcity does not create abundance. Replacing fiscal poverty with experiential poverty is like replacing your dietary protein with carbs and expecting muscle. And yet millions of people mistakenly believe that the menu of extraordinary living has “settle for less” listed as an entrée. It doesn’t.

Many who struggle financially have a strong work ethic—the problem is their “hard work” is being channeled in an ineffective and outdated system.

M.O.D.E.L. Citizenry is the SCRIPTED OS’s goal where you become a part of an indentured class concocted by either Sidewalk or Slowlane paths, the final consequence of being pawned in a rigged game that has few winners.

UNSCRIPTED is self-actualized freedom by exclusion and excommunication. Don’t confuse this with minimalism or being a waitstaff-stiffing cheapskate.

Life means owning your time and thoughts while curating your existence. It is not just to be, but to become.

“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”

At some point, you will face the same choice: a life in hell, a SCRIPTED hyperreality fated by the treadmill of mediocrity; or a walk through hell, the red-pill reality of discipline, unpaid sacrifice, and dang it, a ton of failure.

It is the influence of leisure on consumption which makes the [five day workweek] so necessary. The people who consume the bulk of goods are the people who make them. That is a fact we must never forget, that is the secret of our prosperity.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

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Flawed premises yield flawed results. Different results need different premises.

If your brain was a separate person who spoke to you daily, would you label it a friend and an ally? Or a nay-saying enemy?