- because the calvary is not coming
- because you are the calvary
- because you’re done letting this dysfunctional world tell you how to live
- because the stories we tell are self-fulfilling prophecies that create the world we inhabit and therefore it’s your responsibility to start telling a better story right this instant
- because if you don’t, the terrorists will win
- because the terrorists have won, and now someone needs to terrorize them a lil bit, as a treat
- because re-inventing yourself is the only sensible strategy in a world that’s changing faster than any of us can comprehend
- because you’re done playing small
- because you’re exhausted from pretending to be more impressive than you actually are
- because steve jobs was right when he said “everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you.”
- because it beats whatever the hell is on netflix these days
- because what got you here, won’t get you there
- because deep down you know you’re a mythical being awaiting your next quest
- because when they said the Eternal Tao that can be named is not the Eternal Tao, you were like “challenge accepted”
- because you’re on a mission from God
- because there’s a 0.0027% chance it’ll go more viral than mr. beast’s nonsense
- because even if no other human reads it, you will be better for having written it
- because the tech bros can’t keep getting away with this
- because we can’t let the communists win
- because capitalism has gone too far
- because capitalism hasn’t gone far enough
- because real technofeudalcommunoanarchism has never been tried
- because you were forced to grow up too soon
- because it’s time for you to grow up now
- because you’ve been inspired by a handsome bald guy on the internet
- because the old world is dying as the new world struggles to be born
- because the old you is dying as the new you struggles to be born
- because people like us do things like this
- because you’ve spent years Healing Your Trauma™ and now realize that it’s mostly been a way to hide from life and your deepest desire is to start living again
- because it'll piss off exactly the right people
- because it’ll break the spell of complacency and piss you off
- because you’re mad as hell and not going to take this anymore
- because that tantalizing vision of the future has been stuck in your head for years, and writing it down and hitting publish starts making it REAL
- because you’re ready to live the question instead of merely asking it
- because your granpappy fought for your freedoms in [insert war here] and you’ve finally realized what a gift that actually was
- because the default way you rage against tyranny is turning you into a tyrant yourself, and you refuse to allow that to happen
- because you’re determined to prove your mother/father/high school guidance counselor wrong
- because blaming your parents hasn’t been getting you anywhere and it’s time to forgive them and move the fuck on
- because the seeds of the next great revolution will begin in a google doc passed around between friends
- because you’ve got nothing to lose
- because you’ve got everything to lose, yet the cost of not writing it is still higher
- because you’re haunted by the stories of the world you inherited, and writing a manifesto is kinda like performing an exorcism
- because you’re profoundly, utterly bored
- because it’ll stir up vital, ancient energies that have lain dormant for far too long
- because it will summon your arch nemesis
- because you believe in giving yourself second and third and fourth chances
- because you want your kid(s) to grow up with a model of what courage looks like
- because cynicism is cowardice in disguise
- because your worst sin is that you have betrayed yourself for nothing
- because you want to respect the person staring back at you in the mirror
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