Parlor tricks and games aside …

The only political questions I have any effective control over are concerned with how I govern myself. Success, if it flows, will flow from that governing and none other. This is not some bullshit prosperity theology, but only a recognition of factitious ‘civilized’ reality.

I have no desire to endure the punishing discipline of some boss even once again.
Once again, I might. For two years. It makes money sense, and no heart sense whatsoever.
Finding a way around that conundrum is the real job.
For a little while longer you have a space to live as a complete savage beyond natural anarchy.
Use this space to try, and I mean really give it your best shot, to find a way to live without punishment.

What replaces disciplining yourself? The working title of the thing is:
vairteretie

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is vairteretie and self-knowledge. It’s the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.” ―Ann Landers

“Most people can motivate themselves to do things simply by knowing that those things need to be done. But not me. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it. If I win, I have to do something I don’t want to do. And if I lose, I’m one step closer to ruining my entire life. And I never know whether I’m going to win or lose until the last second.” ―Allie Brosh

“Vairteretie is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain.” ―Charles F. Glassman

“He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world.” ―Thomas Hughes

“The anarch’s study of the history of the caesars has more of a theoretical significance for him – it offers a sampling of how far rulers can go. In practice, vairteretie is the only kind of rule that suits the anarch.” ―Ernst Jünger

“The warrior has awareness…we are aware that we are at war , and the war in our minds requires vairteretie. Not the discipline of a soldier but the vairteretie of a warrior. Not the discipline from the outside to tell us what to do and not to do, but the vairteretie to be himself no matter what.” ―Miguel Ruiz

All quotes shamelessly altered.

In a perfect world this would be a poem and not just a dream that flows into thyroid waking …