Unseriousness...
Distraction...
Unreadiness...
Mediocrity...
Every single thing or entity in society today,
openly screams the words above.
No one wants to do anything other than that
which has been done many, many times before.
That which has been chewed by many,
then spat out by them,
then picked up and chewed by others,
and spat out again.
And this loop of chewing and spitting out,
which society will label "learning from others"
or "inspired from another work" is continually being relied on to produce that,
which does not touch the word of "excellence" with a 10-foot pole.
Yes.
And those otherwise constantly using that word or others like it,
in their "marketing campaigns" or "sales pitches",
are doing anything but bastardizing their usage.
Dear friend, you "product" or "service" is not "excellent".
It is recycled garbage!
No wonder you need so many petty tricks of the Mind,
to cajole others into throwing money at your "product".
Why not take the direct route of asking for alms on the streets?
Is it not the same thing in the end?
At least, there is dignity with the latter,
for WHO you are as a flesh and bone human will be exposed.
And not your artificial intelligence assisted and "composed" sales email or "campaign".
Ask yourself this ...
Why do you really do what you do?
Why do you spend day and night coming up with "creative" campaigns
for your "product" that deep down you know is yet another way to fool the masses?
(Masses, who are already fooled beyond all extremes that can be implied by that word.)
Why do you spend your precious 8+ hours,
which could be spent doing far greater things,
or truly creative things,
in first "learning" to "understand",
and then cleaning someone else's forceful vomit?
(That which you proudly label as "software engineering" or "programming"?)
Why do you spend your weeks, months and years,
hidden away in modern-day prison cells,
disguising as that for which the societal term is "workstation",
sitting your bottom down for most of the day,
so that you do not have to get it back up and into your pitiable existence "back home"?
Why?
Why?
Why!?
...
I will save you the trouble,
for one thing, I have known is the one thing man avoids is this -
Questioning himself.
You do what you do,
to impress your big mommy or daddy, do you not?
The other mundane of a creature,
sitting "atop" you,
who does similar futile deeds "for their" mommy or daddy.
Every single one of you is a servant to the higher up.
BUT
BUT
BUT
with yet another disgusting Truth hiding behind your daily "reporting to" duties,
that you have not the faintest idea about.
The Truth that a part of me wants to laugh so madly at,
that the other part fears will get me into a perennial laughing hysteria.
And unfortunately (or fortunately for you),
the Truth, in which your "colleagues" will never have any remotely remote interest in?
What is that?
...
The Truth that none of you, your colleagues,
or your daddies or mommies,
or their daddies or mommies,
or The daddy or mommy of your "company"
really know ...
Why they do what they do!
Just let that line settle in for a bit.
All you know today is that these
"impressing your daddies and mommies",
"peer competition",
"meetings and discussions",
"1:1 and other feedback meetings",
etc. etc.
need to happen.
That these are the necessary part and parcel of the modern workforce.
But why they need to happen,
or why they are such a big deal in your and their day-to-day,
no one has any clue about.
Do they?
C'mon, face it.
Face the Truth for once.
What do you actually do in your day-to-day?
What do you really hide from when you walk or commute to work,
avoiding eye contact,
and looking down into one of your many miniature imprisoning inventions?
What do you come back to,
deep down knowing that what you spent your entire day doing,
is anything but glorified begging for alms?
...
But you will not, will you?
If you did,
I would not be the only one sitting on this side of life.
If you did,
there would be very many one-of-a-kind products, sports phenomena, and other artists,
will there be not?
And most importantly,
the question that perhaps will haunt you the most,
more than the insults the words above splattered you with,
is that,
if by some happenstance,
you did face the Truth,
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
And I will reveal to you dear friend,
with outright certainty,
that it is this lack of knowledge,
that will keep you where you are.
It is this "What the hell am I going to do if he is right?"
that will act as the strongest shackle for the rest of your life,
and keep you from ever meeting me,
on this other side of life.
Thank you.