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by
M.J. DeMarco
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January 3 - July 14, 2022
poison pens
What Scripted beliefs are writing your story?
And who is reinforcing those beliefs?
amenable
The Book of You is your life as it is today, an aggregate of your beliefs and the choices they created.
Every day you make thousands of choices, including what to think and feel. These choices are like the words, paragraphs, and chapters of your unfolding story.
deadened
talisman,
idle
piqued
mores”
endearment
friskiness,
penultimate
jested,
serenade
retort.
“Our lives seem to be nothing more than an insufferable amount of work that will never end.”
feigned
pliant
marred
The Comfortable Pain Principle: Give a man a tolerable job that pays just enough to provide mediocre comfort and I’ll show you a man who won’t change a damn thing.
if you’re moderately comfortable in your pain, you’re feeding the beast that is mediocrity.
Mediocre comfort, just enough to lull you into complacency, is designed to cement you into the same rut week after week, year after year.
The regular paycheck and its buying bribes: the college
it keeps you at the desk with the same pen, the same words, and the same plot. In the end, time passes, b...
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bribed.
Henry Ford admitted why he reduced his workers’ labor load
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.
six-day workweek makes our slavery (and its discomfort) too obvious, so we’re gifted an extra day of comfort and consumption to engorge our complacency.
the presumptive work week keeps you moderately sheltered, diabetically fed, and addictively entertained—just enough to keep you obediently passive and ignorant to this system.
the first step in escaping a soul-suffocating religion is to realize you’re in one.
person who lives in moderate comfort will rarely find the motivation to fight the status quo. Comfort fuels mediocrity and a life mired in mundanity.
The modern five-day work week is a Scripted tool for obedience and complacency. A “fuck this event” (FTE) is a traumatic event where the pain of the status quo is perce...
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Someday needs to be removed from your vocabulary. It is a distant sunrise in the theater of your mind, an excuse for inaction, a mental bribe to dismiss today for an unknown future that never arrives.
someday is a reiterative and recursive function that continues infinitely. When one precondition is resolved, another appears. And as old preconditions are met, new ones arrive and someday remains.
“I’m waiting.” Someday is a bribe to pacify your soul into believing a future possibility.
Someday must come today.
Someday is a lie, code for never.
Someday is an excuse for inaction, a mental bribe to dismiss today for a tomorrow that never comes.
Someday must beco...
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triaged
Civic and a Corolla.
401(k)s.
slunk
forecl...
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Nonplussed,
deadpanned,
abutted
linoleum
