Meditation for May 16th
Business Savvy Versus Spiritual Growth
In the world of self-help, I have noticed a fine line between books about how to be happier in a spiritual way and books about how to be happier in a money-making way. We have our Eckhart Tolle, and then we have our Tim Ferriss. Both of these men are putting out podcasts, writing books, and blogging, and both claim to help you achieve happiness.
One is a fruitful endeavor, and the other is capitalism in sheep’s clothing.
Finding ways to help you find peace and happiness is the true path for all. There are many different paths. There are religions, spiritual mix-and-match, and secular philosophies that help locate a more serene lifestyle. All of these movements are about love, compassion, and service to your fellow man.
The financial life-hack self-help movement teaches how to cheat at life or get yourself ahead. Many of these books borrow heavily from spiritual self-help books, but the aim isn’t true happiness but financial gain. It’s a lot of how to make a lot of money with little to no work.
Tim Ferriss sells you these four-hour workweek books and seminars that promise little work for much gain. The problem is that he was already ahead in the financial world by being born rich and investing well. He makes most of his money from his investments in Facebook, Evernote, TaskRabbit, and Uber. Of course, he can have a four-hour workweek.
He reminds me of a young Donald Trump.
You can’t get something for little effort. This doesn’t happen. You can’t become a multi-millionaire by copying an East Hampton preppy’s morning routine.
People like Tim Ferriss come at us like they are also spiritual gurus who have found enlightenment and want to share it with you, for a fee. These are false prophets. These people are taking advantage of your laziness and need for instant gratification. The goal is so far away, but this guy does whatever he pleases and gets what he wants when he wants it, so why can’t you?
This is like the founder of Whole Foods. Instead of fighting hippies, he started a business taking money from them. Now it’s owned by one of the richest men alive, making hippies into capitalists.
Prayer
William F. Buckley
Oh, how would you rejoice with those teeth and fake English accent?
This world is turning out just the way you’d love.
The hippies are unassuming as they turn to free-market, unregulated businesses to make money and buy from.
Uber, Lyft, TaskRabbit, and Airbnb.
People work with no protection and the company rakes in the cash,
A conservative’s wet dream.
They think they have the right to labor.
They try to fight the governments that are trying to protect them.
They can’t even form a union!
You’d be so proud.
The kids are walking away from community-based culture,
And wanting to make money off the community.
This is precisely what you wanted when you started the National Review.
This is why even though you are dead,
You won all those debates against Noam Chomsky.
The best part is that they think they are still fighting the cause!
Suckers!
Amen.
Craft
Get a job, hippy!
Goal
There is no quick way to make money without fucking yourself or others – usually others. They can disguise it in hippy spiritual woo woo movements, but it is still capitalism, selfish, and gluttonous. Do you ever wonder why the US has military bases all over the world?