Great read.

This piece illuminates the catch-22’s of being an outside-of-the-box thinker willing to challenge absurd societal norms. You can either adopt one of the 48 Laws of Power and “think as you like, but behave like others” (yet anguish over having to zip your mouth)… or speak/live freely but have people deeply resent you and/or potentially compromise your financial well-being (or worse).

It’s fucking awful. It’s seems like, whatever path we choose in life w/r/t career, relationship status, living location etc., suffering is inevitable and there’ll always be instances where the grass seems greener on the other side. I’m sure there are entrepreneurial pursuit(s) Josh could undertake that’d approximate a corporate salary, but it’d take an enormous amount of time, effort, and drudgery to get there (not to mention frustration). On the other hand, if Josh did have a corporate job, I’m sure some of the societal delusions that plague our culture would spring up at the workplace, delusions which stem from segments of the population being either literally unable or totally unwilling to grasp multivariate societal problems in their entirety.

Such is life, I suppose…