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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”

Taken to an extreme the pinnacle of an ambitious and competitive person is someone who will passionately try to win a shit eating contest. Because winning is winning.

Within such systems everyone is clammoring for the judge/critic roles. You kinda sorta escape the game but at the cost of having to pretend eating shit is some sort of amazing thing to do.