An Introduction to Interdimensional VIllainy

Saturday, March 31, 2018

Demotivational Speakers

Is there anything as demotivating as a corporate motivational training session?

I don't think so. But why is this? Why is motivation, or rather the attempt at motivation, so destructive to our motivation?

And then again, why do we need to be motivated in the first place? What are we doing everyday, and why is it so antithetical to our inborn motivations, that we have to artificially generate motivation from elsewhere?

Answer? Obvious really. We're working.

Humans have been on the planet around 3 million years. Humans have been working as we know it for around 10 thousand.

So...
3,000,000 years
Vs.
0,010,000 years

And yeah. We haven't had time to acclimatize ourselves to voluntary slavery just yet.

So, motivation. The way the Pharaoh tries to convince the serfs to build his pyramid for him.

Am I being too cynical? I don't think so. People across the American Frontier reported settlers running away to join the native bands. People recounted the phenomenon of white captives returned by natives in prisoner exchanges who then fled back to their captors.

People run away to join the circus. Nobody runs away to join corporate America.

And so here we are tricking ourselves with false motivational speeches. Everyone seems to think humans need motivation to do anything. Wildebeest don't need motivation to graze.  Hyenas don't need motivation to hunt. Why do other species manage just fine without these forced motivations?

If all humans needed motivation from outside sources, then we might blame some quirk of human nature. But it's not all humans. It's only the humans trapped in the bowels of civilization. And people can and do flee from this prison. And you can too.

If you dare to dream of freedom.

Life is short.
Work is crap.
Join my cult.

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