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Jason Pargin
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February 25 - March 11, 2025
Sure, you don’t want to do the work right now, during the hard part. Nobody does! But the real ‘you� doesn’t exist in the moment; you exist in the long term. That you, the whole you, will be glad you did this.�
“Can you take some of mine? I’d be less depressed if I didn’t have so much perspective, if I could just get excited about golf or gardening.�
“That’s what you’ll find out here in the wastelands. Almost all of these people are just like you. They want to do the right thing, and every morning, they wake up and go do it. Every. Single. Day.�
That’s the black box, drawing you back in. Can’t you see that it wants you to be afraid to do anything but cower in front of your screens? It only has one trick, one card to play, which is this idea that bad news is the only news you can trust. I’m telling you, if you just allow yourself to step outside of it, you’ll see it for what it is: a prison where the walls are made of nightmares.�
He, like Malort, had woken up one day to find the sun had left the sky and taken all the stars with it.
