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The primal weakness of an institution is that any useful information that arises from the world and not the institution becomes a threat. It threatens the narrative that the system is the source of all good.

In a way this is correct, the “everything is connected” spiel. But it’s also very wrong as every positive interpretation of reality must be twisted to show that it derives from the system. That twisting contorts and corrupts as unnecessary pain.

A story is a self coherent entity. Every part of it must make sense and serve the story. Otherwise it’s a documentary. A story is a self-contained world.

Learning to tell a good story is great. The problem with living in accordance to a story though is that all stories end. Your life must be the only story you live in. If you choose anything else, you die before your time.

It’s like buying a new board game or video game. Some can keep you entertained for hundreds of hours. Some can become entire lifestyles. But at the end of the day they’re finite games.

When a game is played it is given life. Jobs are boring. In exchange for ‘playing’ them and giving them human life you are compensated with money that you can use to play games you want to play.

Playing a game you don’t want to play is a raw deal because you’re paying with time no matter what. Money you earn attempts to masquerade as life energy.

You can either rise to a level where the game becomes fun. Like winning at monopoly. Though most games don’t actually get more fun the higher you climb. The “fun” comes from the idea of “winning”