people are starving they may not know it
because they’re being fed mass-produced
garbage the packaging is colorful and
it’s loud but it’s being produced in the
same factories that make Pop Tarts and
iPads by people sitting around thinking
what can we do to get people to buy more
of these and they’re very good at their
jobs but that’s what it is you’re
getting because that’s what they’re
making they’re selling you something and
the world is built on this now
politics and government are built on
this corporations are built on this
interpersonal relationships are built on
this and we’re starving all of us and
we’re killing each other and we’re
hitting each other and we’re calling
each other liars and evil because it’s
all become marketing and we want to win
because we’re lonely and empty and
scared and we’re led to believe winning
will change all that but there is no
winning what can be done say who you are
really say it in your life and in your
work tell someone out there who is lost
someone not yet born someone who won’t
be born for 500 years your writing will
be a record of your time it can’t help
but be but more importantly if you’re
honest about who you are you’ll help
that person be less lonely in their
world because that person will recognize
him or herself in you and that will give
them hope and it’s done so for me and I
have to keep rediscovering it it’s
profound importance in my life give that
to the world rather than selling
something to the world don’t allow
yourself to be tricked into thinking
that the way things are is the way the
world must work and that in the end
selling is what everyone must do try not
to the world needs you
it doesn’t need you at a party having
read a book about how to appear smart at
parties these books exist and they’re
tempting but resist falling into that
trap the world needs you at the party
starting real conversations saying I don’t know being kind
because they’re being fed mass-produced
garbage the packaging is colorful and
it’s loud but it’s being produced in the
same factories that make Pop Tarts and
iPads by people sitting around thinking
what can we do to get people to buy more
of these and they’re very good at their
jobs but that’s what it is you’re
getting because that’s what they’re
making they’re selling you something and
the world is built on this now
politics and government are built on
this corporations are built on this
interpersonal relationships are built on
this and we’re starving all of us and
we’re killing each other and we’re
hitting each other and we’re calling
each other liars and evil because it’s
all become marketing and we want to win
because we’re lonely and empty and
scared and we’re led to believe winning
will change all that but there is no
winning what can be done say who you are
really say it in your life and in your
work tell someone out there who is lost
someone not yet born someone who won’t
be born for 500 years your writing will
be a record of your time it can’t help
but be but more importantly if you’re
honest about who you are you’ll help
that person be less lonely in their
world because that person will recognize
him or herself in you and that will give
them hope and it’s done so for me and I
have to keep rediscovering it it’s
profound importance in my life give that
to the world rather than selling
something to the world don’t allow
yourself to be tricked into thinking
that the way things are is the way the
world must work and that in the end
selling is what everyone must do try not
to the world needs you
it doesn’t need you at a party having
read a book about how to appear smart at
parties these books exist and they’re
tempting but resist falling into that
trap the world needs you at the party
starting real conversations saying I don’t know being kind
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