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A lot of statements in this article are written in the form of a claim. As if I am preaching the only true answer. I'm not. But I want to voice some different opinions.
Alright. Here we go...
I see a lot of talk about slowlaners, sidewalkers, scripted dogma, anti-self-help "gurus", and the like.
And quite frankly, there's a lot of stuff I either don't agree (fully) with or that I at least want to share some other opinions / reflections about.
Now before I rant for the next 30+ minutes, there are two important things that need mentioning first.
1. Gotta try to find the fine line between sounding like an a$$-kisser and just plain sincere and appreciative here (as before)...
I'm not opposed to MJ, TMF , Unscripted , Fastlaners, The Forum, Productocracy, real value, or anything like that. At least I hope not...
As a matter in fact, I believe I'm intensely pro so much of this stuff. The word productocracy in itself helped me put my previous beliefs into words and a concept.
Finding this community (and other entrepreneurs that care about value) has been a blessing. It gave me hope that everyone wasn't a rat farm scientist that doesn't give a shit.
12 long years ago I fell out of "job life" after just a little over a year because I hated selling stuff to people that didn't need it. I hated their pure revenue-based soulless system that didn't give a shit about employees or ethics. "Here grandma, waste your money on this 10 megabit connection." $$Ka-Ching$$ "Good job employee 431, you earned us both money!"
I then started hating the world, I started hating money in its entirety, I believed 90% of people were shit, and I rarely if ever found someone like myself. I was intent on going away, and starting a new life with other "hippies" on an island. I then lived 7... Interesting years.
I decided I would try to "solve" reality in my head. Yup, easy peasy tiny task, no biggie. I'm not sure how much I solved, but I thought a lot about how the world works. A lot about why people do what they do, a lot about politics, systems of society, systems of living entities, correlation of all, and a lot about what kind of "system" would verify both science, but also the surreal experiences I had back then. Experiences I did not yet have concepts to describe. I guess i spent that life as a hardcore philosopher with no education, only my mind.
The point is, I was basically thinking for 7+ years. Not only thinking of course, but the closest I was to a job or a business or a purpose besides escaping was to solve the world and reality for several reasons. So in addition to all procrastination, some arts, and a loooooooooot of video games, that's what I did. The point is: I have been deep thinking a lot.
And I have some... Thoughts about some things I see being spoken about on the forums, potentially mostly by newer members. Some opinions that I don't see written as often.
MJ is still one of my "Morpheus's" if we're talking Matrix speak. He helped free me, ignited my journey, taught me lots (mentality, practicality, business, economy, systems, and more) provided books that I will revisit and a forum that has helped me tremendously. Even an important start or serious continuation of my re-discovered appreciation of money and all the things it can buy, freedom being a key one. I am grateful for the legacy and everything it has offered me.
I must admit that even if I have read both books, and most all teachings resonated with me, I haven't taken all abbreviations, rules, and concepts to heart. I don't use the terminology in daily life, and quite frankly I wouldn't remember all of it. That doesn't mean it's not a part of me. All C.E.N.T.S modifiers have become part of how I view business, with or without all the language. "Tune-Up", slowlane, Fastlane and sidewalk mentality is a part of my knowledge bank. A part that I am grateful for. Along with other parts of the books that pop into my mind on regular occasions. And I'm not saying it's not a great language to use, a framework to live by, and "become". As a matter in fact, it's one of the better I have seen.
I would just rather want to learn French or general business lingo if I were to learn a new language.
I'm basically clarifying this in an attempt to diminish the head-chopping, lol.
2.
I'm not American. I think this is highly relevant because I'm not exposed to a lot of the scripted dogma preachers that some of you so understandably despise.
I have a hard time getting into all the characters, business people, politicians, the books I haven't read, the ads I haven't seen. Heck, I don't really know how your country truly works. I've been wanting to go ever since I got exposed to the business world. So it's happening after COVID settles down, but I don't know how it is to be poor or "average" in your country, I don't know how having a job is there, how shitty employers can be, workloads etc. Quite frankly there's a lot of stuff I don't know. My point is: Even if most of the concepts in the books are to be found everywhere, our societies are also very different. I don't know about you, but we have state organizations funding innovative entrepreneurial ideas with several hundred thousand dollars, we have health care for everyone (i myself have received $500-$1800 every month for the last 12 years. I could basically do most what I wanted if I was thrifty, but it feels better now to contribute, have a vision, and be occupied). Our right-wing politicians are more left than your leftist. Now I'm not attempting to go into a political discussion about countries and their politics, laws, etc. I love my own country, and America fascinates me. I've always wanted to do a route 66 journey and visit weirdos that own plastic bottle trees, gurus that have strange naked mass meditations in huge tents, and other ... interesting stuff. Back to the point: I know there are some big differences to the systems that are being ripped on (script) in our different countries. But stuff seems waaaaaaaay rougher for the poor or average Joe in the US, so I can understand how it generates stronger emotions how some take advantage of the masses. I mean, I can't remember any "huge economic" crashes here where masses of people severely suffered. But then again, I lived in my thrifty secure bubble, and I didn't exactly feel sorry for others that would have to undergo the same for a while.
That being said:
Case 1: Does anyone remember Mr. Smith?
There are a lot of people on here that love Neo, as do i. I have been a fan of the trilogy ever since it came out (went to all cinema premieres I think). I never really understood all the reasons for why until later years, but I was a fan regardless. It has so many potential layers that Inception seems like a dream to create. Hehe. He. I love it. Not just Neo breaking free from his shitty cubicle, but the whole series. I still haven't figured everything out, but I'm looking forward to it.
My Matrix point is this:
Do people know about or remember Smith? Do people remember the eternal struggle between the two? How it more or less seems like they cannot exist without one another? How there always is a new one, and they always fight their way to the scene with the architect, and then they have to make a choice. Now I don't know if Zion is a reference to living freely in a "tribal culture" (entrepreneurial or not), just still "inside the Matrix" (or at least how it's depicted), or whether or not every Unscripted entrepreneur or aspiring Fastlaner has transcended to some higher level of consciousness outside this actual world that we (I) reside in most of the time. But IF people aren't actually living in a different physical plane of reality (not different mindset in reality), and Zion + Disconnecting is symbolism for unplugging from one or several societally constructed systems of our world, then please remember and appreciate Smith, and be grateful you get to be Neo. And Smith, and Neo, or not?
Now I might be a little on the Dao side. I have spent several years questioning whether or not it is in fact possible for the entire world to be fulfilled and happy at the same time. Yin and Yang, everything with its counterpart. I've wondered if it's even possible for such a reality to exist. I believe that the tree will grow as high as the roots go low, and then I question it after looking to certain individuals. Eckhart Tolle has preached about a presence, pure being, and inner love. As have Ram Dass, as has Alan Watts, as have ancient philosophers, as have Lao Tzu, as have several religions if interpreted in certain ways. But I think there is an important question to be cast before condemning the system and all its preachers. What would the world be like without the system? For it is important to remember that it enables us to surpass that very system. Like MJ has said, and others have said before and/or after. You need to do extraordinary things to experience extraordinary results (or something along those lines). Would this system less world be a Zion on earth? An international tribal community of love and community? But also infected with love, deceit, failure, pride, class systems, and other human constructs?
What if everyone was an entrepreneur? What would happen then? How would the economic system be? Would money or other currency as we know it even exist? How would we trade services? Would there be services to trade? Would love, closeness, compassion, understanding, empathy and sympathy be the most expensive services to be sold? How would one pay for those services? How would we separate the wealthy from the poor? Would everyone be wealthy? Would everyone that wanted a Lamborghini own one? And what would be the consequences of such freedom for everyone?
My point is this: Appreciate the F*cking system. Not solely appreciate the system, but in addition to ridiculing it, laughing at sidewalkers, slowlaners and scriptspeak: Appreciate the F*cking script speak gurus and the system. For if they were not, you wouldn't be able to break free, do your own thing, build your dream, and live the life you want to. I encourage anyone to interject here with good ideas to how the world would realistically function without the systems, the shitty systems. And not just in America. I don't know enough about the entirety of economy, psychology, and everything in-between to even fathom it, but if you do: Please give me your best go.
The closest I get to an ideal world is one where most modern material possessions are undesired and unrequired due to a change of consciousness (Zion without the machine wars?). I guess we would still want to live long (especially the Atheists), be healthy, and have some way of playing other than throwing coconuts and having sex. The other would be if entrepreneurs of the world invented our way into sustainable machinery (something certain people are talking about, Elon Musk among others?) that didn't destroy our planet while taking care of the needs of all humans (and animals if you ask me). Is that really realistic tho? And who would control this new "system" that is now "taking care" of all human beings? Entrepreneurs? Society? Everyone? Robots (now its getting interesting)? AI? How would this new system realistically function? Would no person have a desire other than what he was granted? Would there be a new uprising? A Hyperlane? Maybe we're in the Matrix right now, replaying the actual thing that happened. Life is a VR. Etc. Who knows?
I also want to emphasize how I'm not necessarily talking to everyone right now. I've just seen some tendencies and posts, resulting in me wanting to write about these things.
Now that I am finished talking about these financial gurus that preach slowlane BS (which I can only imagine feels worse in the US than in Norway, as I've mentioned before).
Case 2: "Self Help Guru Hate"
Before I rant more about this topic. Let me just add that: In a theoretical world like the one described above, one where machines do in fact replace more and more people. IF such a reality is in the making, one of the highest value products or services that can be offered is everything that has to do with self-help/self-acceptance/conflict mediation/compassion, and everything else in that category. Who will need a marketing system or better window blinds? I don't give a shit if that teacher has practiced that routine, habit, or whatever else for your required minimum of 66 days or worse yet: 2 years. If they make someone's day better, or they help something towards living a happier life, that's enough. Luckily, it doesn't have to be validated by you, me, or anyone else. Happiness is all the "validation needed". If we should start judging the validity of happiness or how good or evil it is, we might wanna start with whether or not the person that is happy is happy because he is destroying someone else's happiness. Oh and how big isn't the grey area for this? Being happy because you destroy someone else's happiness. Most of us do it every single day without meaning to. Lying is bullshit. But ignorance is also bliss.
And speaking of hope, or better yet, faith. Let me just quote a scene from the legendary series Sandman, written by Neil Gaiman (who also authored what the tv show Lucifer is based upon). So, here we have The Sandman, AKA. Dream, AKA. Morpheus - Lord of the sleeping realm finding himself in Lucifers realm: Hell. The hot steaming demon reeking, suffering filled torture chamber in its loveliest red, bubbling, and putrid form. Our hero Morpheus (gotta go with that) is challenged to a game of wits by a demon by the name of Choronzon in order to regain a priced magical possession of his. The rules of the game are basically a "counter" game where one is supposed to come up with a concept that defeats the previous statement. It goes as follows:
Choronzon: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler
Morpheus: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing
Choronzon: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing
Morpheus: I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight-legged
Choronzon: I am a snake, spider-devouring, poison-toothed
Morpheus: I am an ox, snake-crushing, heavy-footed
Choronzon: I am anthrax, butcher bacterium, warm-life destroying
Morpheus: I think i understand how Choronzon plays. How I can turn it against him. I think i will abandon the offensive.
Morpheus: I am a world, space-floating, life-nurturing
Choronzon: I am a nova, all-exploding, planet-cremating
Morpheus: I am the universe--all things encompassing, all life embracing
Choronzon: I am anti-life, the beast of judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds... EVERYTHING... What will you be then, dreamlord?
Morpheus: I am hope.
Choronzon: ...
I don't know all the rules of this game of wits. Maybe you can replace those dots with "Jobs", but you might get the point.
I've become uncertain of the term hope lately (choose words wisely, etc. hope = putting the decision in something/someone else hands).
But I also truly believe that unless it is possible for all of us to be happy at once, and until we fulfill our dreams, destinies, or desires. Hope is all some people have.
Dispensing hope might be a band-aid, but is it even possible to "cure" everyone? I believe hope is a valuable service in itself. That's one of the main reasons why I appreciate religion
(not part of religion myself). I don't wanna go into any other part of religion than that. If God exists or not, economic abuse & deceit, discrimination, etc. But it does provide hope.
And I think it is important to note that no matter what self help "guru" we are talking about. At least they dispense hope.
I remember reading something about a Jewish person in an attic in Germany during world war 2, looking at a picture of Marilyn Monroe. And that illusion, that beauty, that dream of the freedom of America, and the hope it portrayed kept that person going. I'm not sure where I read or watched this, but I'm fairly certain it was a real event, told by a real person.
When I hear people talking about gurus I often get confused about whether or not they are talking about the financial ones or the self-development ones. I've almost lost my definition of the word guru, to be honest. There are anti gurus, actual gurus, self-proclaimed gurus, anti gurus, anti anti gurus, anti anti anti anti gurus, gurumachithetomania (this is not an actual word, don't google it). I guess we'll find a fresh word to replace the word guru with soon, considering how tainted it has become.
I get the difference between practicing what you preach and preaching what you don't practice. I do both, but I try to preach more about what I practice or have practiced.
A key thing to note here is that different stuff (in general) appeal to different people. Meaning that if you preach 7 different ways to increase your self-confidence, and you only
have practiced one of them. That other person might be intrigued by one of the other techniques that you have never tried, and proceed to try it with little, mediocre, or amazing results. The chances of this happening is reduced by the law of attraction, vibration, or chemistry (choose which one you like), but still likely to occur.
Good old Tai, a perfect example:
I know a lot of people piss on Tai Lopez, and a lot of people still do. So I want to defend him, as I have done before. He's a prime example of a "self-help guru" a lot of people are shitting on, because of his marketing techniques and his dubious levels of actual business success prior to teaching his methods. But he worked miracles for me, so.
That man (re)introduced me to reading, learning and entrepreneurship. His extreme marketing reached me because I was a gaming nerd who was literally stuck to my computer.
Remember how I talked about my period where I abandoned humanity, crawled into my cave, and played my video games?
He was the reason why I attempted a serious video game streaming career with mediocre success, facing my fear and actually doing something "serious" for once.
I always had different or big dreams. Everything from being a business owner to a world-renowned musician, actor, painter, or a wandering monk.
I hated the ordinary because I linked it with so many things I despised. Actually, part of it was probably also just about being a rebel.
But I'm not sure how big my chances were of crawling out of that cave unless it was "forced" on me accompanied by a leased Lambo and a charismatic hipster in a garage with books and workout equipment.
Anyway: He introduced me to reading, audiobooks, learning, to educating myself. The topics in his various videos even stuck with me and became parts of how I approach entrepreneurship. Not only that, but I didn't even finish his course, and it was $67. Talk about value. Getting aggressively dragged out of a bottomless pit with the belief that it was willingly, for the low cost of $67. He is talking about reading, the power of knowledge (put into practice), about speedreading, about great mentors, living and dead alike. He even used the technique of referring to the book and author instead of acting like it was all him (In truth it actually could be, standing on shoulders of giants and all), what was said in it, and left the rest to you. At least that's my interpretation. I regard all this no worse than MJ titling his first book The Millionaire Fastlane . All that cover and title is missing is a Lamborghini, leased or not. It would even fit that cover better than Tai's garage. And Tai did all this to all those poor souls because of his "marketing scheme, lies and leased belongings". I actually spent a lot of time like a mindless moron for several years, questioning whether i "should approve of Tai" and dare to confront my friends and family with this new hope based belief that things could be better. Please emphasize the word should. What can I say, most people live in an illusion based on someone else's belief Until they wake up? I did, sort of.
Now I don't know much about the upselling and claimed "self-help addiction" funnels of endless bonus packages, and all that jazz. And the book "Wolf of Wall Street" has made me even more painfully aware than before of the responsibilities that come with great power (speaking about Tai here). He's not proud of his wolf days no more, let me tell you that. But if we're talking Matrix, people will just go back to staring at their phones after 2 hours if they aren't ready, so. Now I'm not sure if Tai is responsible for the self-help wave, if the new preachers of self-help "are d-bags" or not, or if his business teachings are worth the money. I imagine they are tho. I actually believe he has read a lot of those books, and if he is a Mensa member like he claims, he knows how to piece them together, seeing as how IQ in itself is just another system. I also saw him in a video investing in crops (primary need in Maslow's pyramid = most likely to be in demand. Always), and I heard him sneakily suggest that people give an uncomfortable amount to charity in his 67 steps. The man is a good guy, I'm telling you. But hey, it's one opinion.
Wanna know what I think is worse than any help guru that creates an online $59 course that rehashes shit I've heard 20.000 times before in order to influence people and earn money? Anyone who sells 10.000 of anything that is made of plastic, packed in plastics, and shipped in environmentally harmful ways without intending to improve it. The only way that shit checks out in this scenario is if god (should he exist) intended animal evolution and suffering by human hands through pollution. That's without all the other aspects. Using any kind of knowledge in the world to sell a (shitty or not) temporarily useful physical product is in no way shape or form better than selling a temporarily (shitty or not) useful mental product. As a matter of fact, it's better. Because you don't pollute the world as much while doing it.
But hey, Yin & Yang. There are enough diversity and opposites in us to hate everything.
Or enough gratefulness to appreciate everything. All the stuff that other people deal with so that we don't have to.
If you have read this far, you should be rewarded with some kind of medal. The only one I can reward you is an imaginary one. Accept it in your head.
And I don't really hate stuff anymore, at least I work not to. It's more beneficial to love. You're all insanely amazing, seriously! Buuuuuut I do love to argue a side of something.
A good friend of mine (Philosophy Master) once said that any belief deserved being questioned thoroughly so that we find out if it is durable. I like that friend.
Screw it, I'm done editing this.
Thank you for indulging me. I'll end my wicked rambling with this song by one of my favorite comedians.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2zU3fHg3wI
A lot of statements in this article are written in the form of a claim. As if I am preaching the only true answer. I'm not. But I want to voice some different opinions.
Alright. Here we go...
I see a lot of talk about slowlaners, sidewalkers, scripted dogma, anti-self-help "gurus", and the like.
And quite frankly, there's a lot of stuff I either don't agree (fully) with or that I at least want to share some other opinions / reflections about.
Now before I rant for the next 30+ minutes, there are two important things that need mentioning first.
1. Gotta try to find the fine line between sounding like an a$$-kisser and just plain sincere and appreciative here (as before)...
I'm not opposed to MJ, TMF , Unscripted , Fastlaners, The Forum, Productocracy, real value, or anything like that. At least I hope not...
As a matter in fact, I believe I'm intensely pro so much of this stuff. The word productocracy in itself helped me put my previous beliefs into words and a concept.
Finding this community (and other entrepreneurs that care about value) has been a blessing. It gave me hope that everyone wasn't a rat farm scientist that doesn't give a shit.
12 long years ago I fell out of "job life" after just a little over a year because I hated selling stuff to people that didn't need it. I hated their pure revenue-based soulless system that didn't give a shit about employees or ethics. "Here grandma, waste your money on this 10 megabit connection." $$Ka-Ching$$ "Good job employee 431, you earned us both money!"
I then started hating the world, I started hating money in its entirety, I believed 90% of people were shit, and I rarely if ever found someone like myself. I was intent on going away, and starting a new life with other "hippies" on an island. I then lived 7... Interesting years.
I decided I would try to "solve" reality in my head. Yup, easy peasy tiny task, no biggie. I'm not sure how much I solved, but I thought a lot about how the world works. A lot about why people do what they do, a lot about politics, systems of society, systems of living entities, correlation of all, and a lot about what kind of "system" would verify both science, but also the surreal experiences I had back then. Experiences I did not yet have concepts to describe. I guess i spent that life as a hardcore philosopher with no education, only my mind.
The point is, I was basically thinking for 7+ years. Not only thinking of course, but the closest I was to a job or a business or a purpose besides escaping was to solve the world and reality for several reasons. So in addition to all procrastination, some arts, and a loooooooooot of video games, that's what I did. The point is: I have been deep thinking a lot.
And I have some... Thoughts about some things I see being spoken about on the forums, potentially mostly by newer members. Some opinions that I don't see written as often.
MJ is still one of my "Morpheus's" if we're talking Matrix speak. He helped free me, ignited my journey, taught me lots (mentality, practicality, business, economy, systems, and more) provided books that I will revisit and a forum that has helped me tremendously. Even an important start or serious continuation of my re-discovered appreciation of money and all the things it can buy, freedom being a key one. I am grateful for the legacy and everything it has offered me.
I must admit that even if I have read both books, and most all teachings resonated with me, I haven't taken all abbreviations, rules, and concepts to heart. I don't use the terminology in daily life, and quite frankly I wouldn't remember all of it. That doesn't mean it's not a part of me. All C.E.N.T.S modifiers have become part of how I view business, with or without all the language. "Tune-Up", slowlane, Fastlane and sidewalk mentality is a part of my knowledge bank. A part that I am grateful for. Along with other parts of the books that pop into my mind on regular occasions. And I'm not saying it's not a great language to use, a framework to live by, and "become". As a matter in fact, it's one of the better I have seen.
I would just rather want to learn French or general business lingo if I were to learn a new language.
I'm basically clarifying this in an attempt to diminish the head-chopping, lol.
2.
I'm not American. I think this is highly relevant because I'm not exposed to a lot of the scripted dogma preachers that some of you so understandably despise.
I have a hard time getting into all the characters, business people, politicians, the books I haven't read, the ads I haven't seen. Heck, I don't really know how your country truly works. I've been wanting to go ever since I got exposed to the business world. So it's happening after COVID settles down, but I don't know how it is to be poor or "average" in your country, I don't know how having a job is there, how shitty employers can be, workloads etc. Quite frankly there's a lot of stuff I don't know. My point is: Even if most of the concepts in the books are to be found everywhere, our societies are also very different. I don't know about you, but we have state organizations funding innovative entrepreneurial ideas with several hundred thousand dollars, we have health care for everyone (i myself have received $500-$1800 every month for the last 12 years. I could basically do most what I wanted if I was thrifty, but it feels better now to contribute, have a vision, and be occupied). Our right-wing politicians are more left than your leftist. Now I'm not attempting to go into a political discussion about countries and their politics, laws, etc. I love my own country, and America fascinates me. I've always wanted to do a route 66 journey and visit weirdos that own plastic bottle trees, gurus that have strange naked mass meditations in huge tents, and other ... interesting stuff. Back to the point: I know there are some big differences to the systems that are being ripped on (script) in our different countries. But stuff seems waaaaaaaay rougher for the poor or average Joe in the US, so I can understand how it generates stronger emotions how some take advantage of the masses. I mean, I can't remember any "huge economic" crashes here where masses of people severely suffered. But then again, I lived in my thrifty secure bubble, and I didn't exactly feel sorry for others that would have to undergo the same for a while.
That being said:
Case 1: Does anyone remember Mr. Smith?
There are a lot of people on here that love Neo, as do i. I have been a fan of the trilogy ever since it came out (went to all cinema premieres I think). I never really understood all the reasons for why until later years, but I was a fan regardless. It has so many potential layers that Inception seems like a dream to create. Hehe. He. I love it. Not just Neo breaking free from his shitty cubicle, but the whole series. I still haven't figured everything out, but I'm looking forward to it.
My Matrix point is this:
Do people know about or remember Smith? Do people remember the eternal struggle between the two? How it more or less seems like they cannot exist without one another? How there always is a new one, and they always fight their way to the scene with the architect, and then they have to make a choice. Now I don't know if Zion is a reference to living freely in a "tribal culture" (entrepreneurial or not), just still "inside the Matrix" (or at least how it's depicted), or whether or not every Unscripted entrepreneur or aspiring Fastlaner has transcended to some higher level of consciousness outside this actual world that we (I) reside in most of the time. But IF people aren't actually living in a different physical plane of reality (not different mindset in reality), and Zion + Disconnecting is symbolism for unplugging from one or several societally constructed systems of our world, then please remember and appreciate Smith, and be grateful you get to be Neo. And Smith, and Neo, or not?
Now I might be a little on the Dao side. I have spent several years questioning whether or not it is in fact possible for the entire world to be fulfilled and happy at the same time. Yin and Yang, everything with its counterpart. I've wondered if it's even possible for such a reality to exist. I believe that the tree will grow as high as the roots go low, and then I question it after looking to certain individuals. Eckhart Tolle has preached about a presence, pure being, and inner love. As have Ram Dass, as has Alan Watts, as have ancient philosophers, as have Lao Tzu, as have several religions if interpreted in certain ways. But I think there is an important question to be cast before condemning the system and all its preachers. What would the world be like without the system? For it is important to remember that it enables us to surpass that very system. Like MJ has said, and others have said before and/or after. You need to do extraordinary things to experience extraordinary results (or something along those lines). Would this system less world be a Zion on earth? An international tribal community of love and community? But also infected with love, deceit, failure, pride, class systems, and other human constructs?
What if everyone was an entrepreneur? What would happen then? How would the economic system be? Would money or other currency as we know it even exist? How would we trade services? Would there be services to trade? Would love, closeness, compassion, understanding, empathy and sympathy be the most expensive services to be sold? How would one pay for those services? How would we separate the wealthy from the poor? Would everyone be wealthy? Would everyone that wanted a Lamborghini own one? And what would be the consequences of such freedom for everyone?
My point is this: Appreciate the F*cking system. Not solely appreciate the system, but in addition to ridiculing it, laughing at sidewalkers, slowlaners and scriptspeak: Appreciate the F*cking script speak gurus and the system. For if they were not, you wouldn't be able to break free, do your own thing, build your dream, and live the life you want to. I encourage anyone to interject here with good ideas to how the world would realistically function without the systems, the shitty systems. And not just in America. I don't know enough about the entirety of economy, psychology, and everything in-between to even fathom it, but if you do: Please give me your best go.
The closest I get to an ideal world is one where most modern material possessions are undesired and unrequired due to a change of consciousness (Zion without the machine wars?). I guess we would still want to live long (especially the Atheists), be healthy, and have some way of playing other than throwing coconuts and having sex. The other would be if entrepreneurs of the world invented our way into sustainable machinery (something certain people are talking about, Elon Musk among others?) that didn't destroy our planet while taking care of the needs of all humans (and animals if you ask me). Is that really realistic tho? And who would control this new "system" that is now "taking care" of all human beings? Entrepreneurs? Society? Everyone? Robots (now its getting interesting)? AI? How would this new system realistically function? Would no person have a desire other than what he was granted? Would there be a new uprising? A Hyperlane? Maybe we're in the Matrix right now, replaying the actual thing that happened. Life is a VR. Etc. Who knows?
I also want to emphasize how I'm not necessarily talking to everyone right now. I've just seen some tendencies and posts, resulting in me wanting to write about these things.
Now that I am finished talking about these financial gurus that preach slowlane BS (which I can only imagine feels worse in the US than in Norway, as I've mentioned before).
Case 2: "Self Help Guru Hate"
Before I rant more about this topic. Let me just add that: In a theoretical world like the one described above, one where machines do in fact replace more and more people. IF such a reality is in the making, one of the highest value products or services that can be offered is everything that has to do with self-help/self-acceptance/conflict mediation/compassion, and everything else in that category. Who will need a marketing system or better window blinds? I don't give a shit if that teacher has practiced that routine, habit, or whatever else for your required minimum of 66 days or worse yet: 2 years. If they make someone's day better, or they help something towards living a happier life, that's enough. Luckily, it doesn't have to be validated by you, me, or anyone else. Happiness is all the "validation needed". If we should start judging the validity of happiness or how good or evil it is, we might wanna start with whether or not the person that is happy is happy because he is destroying someone else's happiness. Oh and how big isn't the grey area for this? Being happy because you destroy someone else's happiness. Most of us do it every single day without meaning to. Lying is bullshit. But ignorance is also bliss.
And speaking of hope, or better yet, faith. Let me just quote a scene from the legendary series Sandman, written by Neil Gaiman (who also authored what the tv show Lucifer is based upon). So, here we have The Sandman, AKA. Dream, AKA. Morpheus - Lord of the sleeping realm finding himself in Lucifers realm: Hell. The hot steaming demon reeking, suffering filled torture chamber in its loveliest red, bubbling, and putrid form. Our hero Morpheus (gotta go with that) is challenged to a game of wits by a demon by the name of Choronzon in order to regain a priced magical possession of his. The rules of the game are basically a "counter" game where one is supposed to come up with a concept that defeats the previous statement. It goes as follows:
Choronzon: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler
Morpheus: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing
Choronzon: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing
Morpheus: I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight-legged
Choronzon: I am a snake, spider-devouring, poison-toothed
Morpheus: I am an ox, snake-crushing, heavy-footed
Choronzon: I am anthrax, butcher bacterium, warm-life destroying
Morpheus: I think i understand how Choronzon plays. How I can turn it against him. I think i will abandon the offensive.
Morpheus: I am a world, space-floating, life-nurturing
Choronzon: I am a nova, all-exploding, planet-cremating
Morpheus: I am the universe--all things encompassing, all life embracing
Choronzon: I am anti-life, the beast of judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds... EVERYTHING... What will you be then, dreamlord?
Morpheus: I am hope.
Choronzon: ...
I don't know all the rules of this game of wits. Maybe you can replace those dots with "Jobs", but you might get the point.
I've become uncertain of the term hope lately (choose words wisely, etc. hope = putting the decision in something/someone else hands).
But I also truly believe that unless it is possible for all of us to be happy at once, and until we fulfill our dreams, destinies, or desires. Hope is all some people have.
Dispensing hope might be a band-aid, but is it even possible to "cure" everyone? I believe hope is a valuable service in itself. That's one of the main reasons why I appreciate religion
(not part of religion myself). I don't wanna go into any other part of religion than that. If God exists or not, economic abuse & deceit, discrimination, etc. But it does provide hope.
And I think it is important to note that no matter what self help "guru" we are talking about. At least they dispense hope.
I remember reading something about a Jewish person in an attic in Germany during world war 2, looking at a picture of Marilyn Monroe. And that illusion, that beauty, that dream of the freedom of America, and the hope it portrayed kept that person going. I'm not sure where I read or watched this, but I'm fairly certain it was a real event, told by a real person.
When I hear people talking about gurus I often get confused about whether or not they are talking about the financial ones or the self-development ones. I've almost lost my definition of the word guru, to be honest. There are anti gurus, actual gurus, self-proclaimed gurus, anti gurus, anti anti gurus, anti anti anti anti gurus, gurumachithetomania (this is not an actual word, don't google it). I guess we'll find a fresh word to replace the word guru with soon, considering how tainted it has become.
I get the difference between practicing what you preach and preaching what you don't practice. I do both, but I try to preach more about what I practice or have practiced.
A key thing to note here is that different stuff (in general) appeal to different people. Meaning that if you preach 7 different ways to increase your self-confidence, and you only
have practiced one of them. That other person might be intrigued by one of the other techniques that you have never tried, and proceed to try it with little, mediocre, or amazing results. The chances of this happening is reduced by the law of attraction, vibration, or chemistry (choose which one you like), but still likely to occur.
Good old Tai, a perfect example:
I know a lot of people piss on Tai Lopez, and a lot of people still do. So I want to defend him, as I have done before. He's a prime example of a "self-help guru" a lot of people are shitting on, because of his marketing techniques and his dubious levels of actual business success prior to teaching his methods. But he worked miracles for me, so.
That man (re)introduced me to reading, learning and entrepreneurship. His extreme marketing reached me because I was a gaming nerd who was literally stuck to my computer.
Remember how I talked about my period where I abandoned humanity, crawled into my cave, and played my video games?
He was the reason why I attempted a serious video game streaming career with mediocre success, facing my fear and actually doing something "serious" for once.
I always had different or big dreams. Everything from being a business owner to a world-renowned musician, actor, painter, or a wandering monk.
I hated the ordinary because I linked it with so many things I despised. Actually, part of it was probably also just about being a rebel.
But I'm not sure how big my chances were of crawling out of that cave unless it was "forced" on me accompanied by a leased Lambo and a charismatic hipster in a garage with books and workout equipment.
Anyway: He introduced me to reading, audiobooks, learning, to educating myself. The topics in his various videos even stuck with me and became parts of how I approach entrepreneurship. Not only that, but I didn't even finish his course, and it was $67. Talk about value. Getting aggressively dragged out of a bottomless pit with the belief that it was willingly, for the low cost of $67. He is talking about reading, the power of knowledge (put into practice), about speedreading, about great mentors, living and dead alike. He even used the technique of referring to the book and author instead of acting like it was all him (In truth it actually could be, standing on shoulders of giants and all), what was said in it, and left the rest to you. At least that's my interpretation. I regard all this no worse than MJ titling his first book The Millionaire Fastlane . All that cover and title is missing is a Lamborghini, leased or not. It would even fit that cover better than Tai's garage. And Tai did all this to all those poor souls because of his "marketing scheme, lies and leased belongings". I actually spent a lot of time like a mindless moron for several years, questioning whether i "should approve of Tai" and dare to confront my friends and family with this new hope based belief that things could be better. Please emphasize the word should. What can I say, most people live in an illusion based on someone else's belief Until they wake up? I did, sort of.
Now I don't know much about the upselling and claimed "self-help addiction" funnels of endless bonus packages, and all that jazz. And the book "Wolf of Wall Street" has made me even more painfully aware than before of the responsibilities that come with great power (speaking about Tai here). He's not proud of his wolf days no more, let me tell you that. But if we're talking Matrix, people will just go back to staring at their phones after 2 hours if they aren't ready, so. Now I'm not sure if Tai is responsible for the self-help wave, if the new preachers of self-help "are d-bags" or not, or if his business teachings are worth the money. I imagine they are tho. I actually believe he has read a lot of those books, and if he is a Mensa member like he claims, he knows how to piece them together, seeing as how IQ in itself is just another system. I also saw him in a video investing in crops (primary need in Maslow's pyramid = most likely to be in demand. Always), and I heard him sneakily suggest that people give an uncomfortable amount to charity in his 67 steps. The man is a good guy, I'm telling you. But hey, it's one opinion.
Wanna know what I think is worse than any help guru that creates an online $59 course that rehashes shit I've heard 20.000 times before in order to influence people and earn money? Anyone who sells 10.000 of anything that is made of plastic, packed in plastics, and shipped in environmentally harmful ways without intending to improve it. The only way that shit checks out in this scenario is if god (should he exist) intended animal evolution and suffering by human hands through pollution. That's without all the other aspects. Using any kind of knowledge in the world to sell a (shitty or not) temporarily useful physical product is in no way shape or form better than selling a temporarily (shitty or not) useful mental product. As a matter of fact, it's better. Because you don't pollute the world as much while doing it.
But hey, Yin & Yang. There are enough diversity and opposites in us to hate everything.
Or enough gratefulness to appreciate everything. All the stuff that other people deal with so that we don't have to.
If you have read this far, you should be rewarded with some kind of medal. The only one I can reward you is an imaginary one. Accept it in your head.
And I don't really hate stuff anymore, at least I work not to. It's more beneficial to love. You're all insanely amazing, seriously! Buuuuuut I do love to argue a side of something.
A good friend of mine (Philosophy Master) once said that any belief deserved being questioned thoroughly so that we find out if it is durable. I like that friend.
Screw it, I'm done editing this.
Thank you for indulging me. I'll end my wicked rambling with this song by one of my favorite comedians.
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