Joel Walbert on Nostr: If you read only one thing today, make it this ...

If you read only one thing today, make it this

quoting note1skr…wcep

The world will hand you neat lists,
Polished like commandments
7 rules for life.
As if existence could be tamed by slogans on parchment.
The soft language of domestication, designed not to free you, but to blunt you.
Do you know what such rules breed? Passivity.
The final mockery, smile.
A mask stretched over the rot of submission,
a performance to reassure others that you’ve surrendered quietly.

You don't need rules,
You need a doctrine for survival....
1. Let nothing go. Memory is a ledger of debts to be collected.
2. Ignore no one. Every whisper is intelligence, every shadow a threat.
3. Do not give it time. Take what is yours before time buries it.
4. Compare endlessly, until you surpass or destroy.
5. Do not stay calm. Channel the storm.
6. It’s on you, so make sure the world pays for underestimating you.
7. Never smile unless it is a blade