Manic Monday Medicine :: do all those ‘you can get fit, rich, attractive, forever young, deep, ever in love and sleep like a baby if you just do this’ self-optimization podcasts ever talk about the rot of the system we live in?

Diary of a Ceo with Steven Bartlett, The school of Greatness with Lewis Howes, Mel Robbins (gasp of irritation… what an ego driven cow), etc…

Do count calories. Don’t count calories. Eat this, not that. Five months later. New expert. Do eat this, but don’t eat that.

What is driving your addictions.

Your childhood trauma unpacked by 30 different experts a year, all with similar takes, but wrappedd in ribbons in different colors.

Take cold showers.

This is why you are not manifesting wealth.

This is stopping you from fulfilling your true potential.

This is the only thing that really works to lose fat.

This little hack will make you rich.

This mindset will turn you into a productive powerhouse.

No, this mindset will make you the next Jeff Bezos.

You can be Elon Musk too.

This is why you attract narcisissists.

Dear viewer, narcissists creep up on you everywhere you go, but you are never it, you are never the narcissist.

A financial expert here and there.

A former CIA operative with a headband telling you how to manipulate your colleagues.

How to really build muscle.

How to really think yourself to a Ferrari.

How to really make money while you are asleep.

How to build your own brand.

Some influencer who says: ‘I don’t think I have ever said this’  and then cries a little bit.

Three hour interviews on how to use your time in a more optimal way.

Then begging you to subscribe, because the more subscribers ‘the bigger the guests’ become. This is a slap in the face of all previous guests, because apparently they were only being used as a starter for the main course in the future.

Put bright lights on two people who talk passionately with loud or quiet promises as to how you can be so much better if you just do what they say and apparently people will watch.

None of these feel good perpetual optimization have risked talking about Gaza, because they ‘don’t do politics’ or ‘it’s complicated’.

They do politics, because they will happily interview former generals, business executives with ties to the military industrial complex, they will have vaccine experts on and they will promote big corporations.

The problem is that mentioning Gaza and pointing fingers to Israel will kill their ranking in the algorhythm.

If these podcasts can’t tell you about the system we all operate in, then they are only about making us into rats who learn to run faster in the cage.

These phonies will again and again advice you to stop staring at your phone, but they will beg you to watch their two hour long chitchats with seven weight loss tips you have heard a million times before.

Fuck ‘em.

Unplug.

Seek discomfort.

If it’s letting you dream of greatness without hurting you, you are sucking on a pacifier.