Outrage is the new happy.
At a time in human history our lives have never been better you might think it’s never been worse.
The economy is still on a tear.
Living standards are the best they’ve ever been, everywhere.
Our lives only get better and better.
Yet so few of us humans ever get happier.
Anger.
Outrage.
Loneliness.
Anxiety.
Fear.
These are the daily killers of the human race.
We constantly blame it on something wrong out there, but it’s only going on in here.
Epstein…
No comment.
People are better off that way.
Those of us without eyes wide shut know where the stink hole goes, don’t we?
How quickly our society forgets.
For a while we’re outraged when another Weinstein snakes around.
But quickly we get back to our little screens forgetting like Spacey we demand a constant stream of beautiful boys, and girls.
We pretend not to know how they do it.
That the casting couch existed long before the latest crop of pervs and pedos.
In our society that vehemently fights for women’s rights…
We tune into the fashion shows ogling our super women prancing around in their shiny heels and underwear.
No care how they got there.
Nor how many others were picked over and left elsewhere.
You may have seen an article on the app DeepNude.
Another massive leap in technology the app uses an artificial neural network…
To remove the clothing in any photo of a woman.
It doesn’t take artificial intelligence to see women have boobs.
But with enough computing power you can better imagine what they look like.
No longer do we have to so desperately await the next iPhone hack to see celebrity boobs.
Or go to strip clubs.
With 50 bucks and the press of a button, all boobs are free.
Push up bras ruined boobs.
Promising so much, revealing less than.
Technology ruined them more.
Fake boobs.
Sexdoll boobs.
Insta “model” boobs.
Porn infested, boob injected Internet.
Technology promised so much, yet what boobs we’ve become.
I’m not yet American.
But I feel it through and through.
There is much wrong with this country, but no other place on Earth stands for what we do.
When my Dad first visited America he dropped to his knees and kissed the ground.
Born in England, having migrated to Australia, he felt he was meant to be born here.
Since I landed nearly 20 years ago I haven’t imagined living anywhere else.
It’s easy for others to find fault with America.
Easy for those of us living here to imagine better ways it could be.
But there’s still no place on Earth that stands for more of what it means to be free.
There are plenty of studies that show America is far from the most free.
Upward mobility. Infant mortality. Education rates. Incarceration. Standard of living, etc.
You can tick down a list of the things that are wrong with this place.
But still no other country in the world is more free.
With more diversity of thinking, and being.
Older workers are miserable too.
Most workers are miserable.
Some two-thirds of us are consistently surveyed as disengaged in our jobs.
This is 2019, not 1919.
Back then the so-called Lost Generation surely had worse jobs, including taking bullets in a world war.
Perhaps they were just as miserable…
Yet 100 years later we’re still so downtrodden?
Many jobs suck…
But at least we have more choice than ever about the work we do.
The bigger problem for many of us isn’t that our jobs suck.
It’s that we suck at how we look at them!
They didn’t spend more time on social media.
More time reading the news.
More time watching TV.
More time surfing the web.
They know our minds are built for distraction.
Like Facebook they’ve built their honeypots to keep us trapped.
But we can break free.
But how much of our lives do we piss away.
Thinking about shit we can’t control.
Worried about the future. Thinking about the past.
Living in a different time, a different place, how many of us are living here today?
Tim Ferris had it backwards.
It’s not the four hour workweek…
It’s that on average we have 4 hours free every week…
I’m wary of basic ideas and random surveys but it neatly makes my point…
How many of us feel like we have enough “free” time?
In these blessed modern times, how many of us are living the time of our lives?
How many of us have enough time to do the things we want?
In this track from my Masterclass on Surviving Our Sewer Society, I walk through three levels of freeing your time:
Level 1: Is all the time management stuff. How, specifically, do you become so good with your time that you “make more” of it?
Level 2: Four sewer traps that steal our time—Thinking. Feeling. Distraction. Staying so busy to avoid thinking about our lives…
Level 3: The Five Levels of Being Human… The real goal of freeing your time is so you can focus on higher level topics.
No matter how you look at it, all we have is time.
And every second, right now, and now right now, we are stuck in the time prison or freeing the time of our lives.
Here’s Track 4 from Surviving Our Sewer Society, The Time Prison:
Well, it’s that much of what our society shovels us, stinks.
Career advice. Life advice. Financial advice. Certainly, the crap our society shovels into our minds…
And, yes, of course I’m playing around a bit here. 🙂
There are so many amazing things about our modern lives…
Many people are dying every day from opioid, obesity, and other “diseases” of the mind.
So many of us are dying of boredom in jobs we hate.
Financially, so many of us live in lack, even many rich people dying every day with insecurity.
What about our time?
How many of us feel we are living the time of our lives?