Within a few months here, I should be
able to start making bigger leaps into creating a counter-culture.
Most of my speech and actions will be about the prospect of making
money. It will be all about the money. Money does buy happiness, at
least for people like me who want to get things done in a world
controlled by idiots. Money speaks to idiots. While I’m distracting
people with money, I’ll be able to sneak in all of my ideas.
And what are my ideas? One is being
small and sustainable. Another is fulfilling actual needs. I’ll go
further and say sacrificing in the short term for a better long term
outcome. I think accountability and humility are important as well. I
want to open businesses right next door to ones I think do it wrong.
I don’t view things as competition that don’t stand for the same
things I do. Starbucks in Target is simply a target, and an example I
get to shine against.
I want to get the grunt work out of the
way and make it easy for people. I want to play with the immoral
people so they don’t have to. I want to create a pyramid scheme
that rewards your effort instead of exploiting your good nature. I
operate under the, what I’ll no longer denigrate as an assumption,
that people are idiots. They will act from their ignorance well
before they know how to act in their own best interest. I’m not
going to appeal to the idiots. I’m going to give the people that
understand and opportunity to be an example that the idiots will feel
the consequences of ignoring.
These are
monetary consequences, of course, because again, money speaks to
idiots. When I get a building full of Hatsam’s that want to be
comfortable and spend their time having fun, while getting the work
done, then I’ve done something right. With a bottom line that
depends on dependable people who motivate themselves and see problems
for what they are, I don’t think you can lose. At the end of the
day, when one number is higher than the other, the numbers that say
“fuck all” to your opinions and ideals, you know to keep pressing
forward.
I can only move as fast as the people
who agree with me. I don’t make the endless appeals for people to
get onboard to tell me their ideas for nothing. Culture changes when
behavior does. Until I find the people to stand with me, I’ll keep
having to invest my time in how I appeal to idiots verses refining
the full implications of standing with good ideas. And I’m okay
with that, for now. It’s why I’ll work 3 jobs and opt out of
sleep. I refuse to wake up when I’m 30 and wonder where the last 6
years went. If you think it takes 10 years, I want to do it in 6
months. If you think it won’t work under the current paradigm, I’ll
show you how it works in mine.
Changing and adapting are easier when
you have the resources, and people can change more than they give
themselves credit for. We live in a world that charges you to use
money you’ve earned. Punishes you for using a service a handful of
colluding companies provide. Persuades you that change takes a lot of
time and is very hard. And all of that is bullshit once you start
acting differently.
For as many reasons as I have to hate
much of this world and fucking people in it, ultimately I am the
keeper of my mood and my acts. I will always be more motivated by my
ideas and what I can do for my friends than I will be dragged down by
the oblivious idiots I will no doubt collaterally help while they
rain criticism. I’ll try not to be the guy who adopts a puppy and
then kicks it for shitting on the rug.
