Getting to Work
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May 16, 2020
I just like listening to the daemon, not doing his admin work.
I sent that to Rachel Haywire, that hot as fuck philosopher queen, when she was complaining to me about doing website administrative work for her creative project. I totally get it. I was just talking to Adam Robbert, that incredibly handsome philosophy king, about this as well. He's currently wrestling with a slew of administrative annoyances for the upcoming launch of The Side View.
These days I am getting bombarded by daemon inspired ideas all the time, and it is a strong preferred indifferent of mine not to do the administrative work required to manifest these ideas. I am more than capable of doing administrative work, and being organized is part of my talent stack, but I am so uninspired by it. During my previous normie work career, I was totally an office fauna dying a slow death from bureaucratic agony.
Somebody should give me a medal in goldbricking my way from paycheque to paycheque. That was something I was talented at. But becoming talented at bullshitting myself and others is something I never got good at. Exacerbated by Learning and Development initiatives, the existential labour of a 9 to 5 was deeply unbearable. In any event, I ultimately failed to be good office fauna, and that is okay because it's not where the daemon wants me to be.
That being said, I earnestly want to see if the ProtoB project of the Stoa can support my livelihood and if the model can support others' livelihoods as well. As I mentioned before, Andrew supported himself in the gift economy, and I want this humbly cocky steward to do so as well. Besides, Camille wants to start a family, and so do I.
I feel uncomfortable with starting a family during a pandemic, and worse, a meta-crisis, but maybe this is the best time to make a life. This would be an existential fuck you to the cult state, and the evil, lies, and pathological bullshit that has been keeping the “normal” world alive. Fuck them. I believe in sexy things, and yeah, maybe I believe in miracles, too.
Besides, the Stoa is not based in the spirit of what my friend Yancey Strickler calls financial maximization. The daemon cannot be instrumentalized in making money. If you attempt it you will pervert and corrupt those that the daemon is currently speaking through. Not on my watch. That shit ends here.
That being said if I want to support a child during this interregnum, Camille and I will need more money, or more radically, a new world that will support the livelihood of a family of three or more. I want a kid and I deeply want a family. I think I would make a good father and I think Camille would make a good mother. I sense it is time for me to embrace the administrative skills I do have, and stop being so precious, and get to work.
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