Corporate work is bullshit. The idea of "free time" is bullshit. Careers are bullshit. Resumes are bullshit. Degrees are bullshit. School is bullshit. Teachers are full of shit. Homework is bullshit. Tests are bullshit.
Employers are full of shit. Managers are full of shit. Commuting is bullshit. Cars and roads are bullshit. Transport is bullshit. Scheduling is bullshit. Office gossip is bullshit. Anti-work people are also full of shit. UBI is bullshit.
Holidays are bullshit. Travelling is bullshit. Entertainment is bullshit. Happiness is bullshit. 1
Meditation is bullshit. Yoga is bullshit. Methods are bullshit. Wu-wu is bullshit. Occultism is bullshit. Energy-work is bullshit. Eastern religions are bullshit.
The alternative is bullshit. Hippies are full of shit. Peace is bullshit. 2 Drug culture is bullshit. Psychedelics are bullshit.
The mainstream is bullshit. Secularism is bullshit. Western religions are also bullshit. Prayer is bullshit. Priests are full of shit. Self-help writers are full of shit. Coaches are full of shit. Academics are full of shit.
Science is bullshit. Soft-sciences are bullshit. Psychology is bullshit. Hard sciences are bullshit. Engineering is bullshit. Programming is bullshit. Mathematics is bullshit. Empiricism is bullshit. Rationality is bullshit.
Medicine is bullshit. Eating on a schedule is bullshit. Diets are bullshit. Exercising is full of shit. Living a long life is bullshit.
Social media is bullshit. Dating is bullshit. Gender discourse is bullshit. Sex is bullshit. Pornography is bullshit. Feminism is bullshit. Critical theory is bullshit. Gender theory is bullshit. The game of identity is bullshit. Leftism is bullshit.
Men's rights movements are bullshit. Racism is bullshit. Prostration to the family is bullshit. Tradition is bullshit. Rightism is bullshit. The culture war is bullshit. All information is bullshit.
Modern art is bullshit. Modern shows and movies are bullshit. Photography is bullshit. AI is bullshit. Modern cultures are bullshit. Self-absorption is bullshit.
Pragmatism is bullshit. Problem-solving is bullshit. Activism is bullshit. Effective Altruism is bullshit. Saving the world is bullshit.
Politicians are full of shit. Political commentators are full of shit. News reporters are full of shit. News readers and spectators are full of shit.
Economics is bullshit. Finance is bullshit. Mortgages are bullshit. Investing is bullshit. Crypto is bullshit. Pensions are bullshit.
The law is bullshit. Bureaucracies are bullshit. The police is full of shit.
History is bullshit. Optimism is bullshit. Hoping is bullshit. Pessimism and doomerism are bullshit. Worrying is bullshit. Blaming other people is bullshit. Bullying yourself is bullshit. Obsessive introspection is bullshit. Self-narratives are bullshit. Dominance is bullshit. Submission is bullshit. Emotions are bullshit. Thinking is bullshit. The mind is bullshit.
What is not bullshit then? What remains after this long list of all aspects of our lives? What remains is your conscious experience, the present moment. Not the idea of the present moment, not your fantasies of it, or what you like or dislike about it, or a systematization of the present moment, or what you get from being present, simply is-ness. Life, in its breadth and depth, in its colors and rhythms, experienced right here and right now.
In our inverted world, the actuality of life is completely useless to most endeavors because Reality as a whole is not useful. This is because usefulness arises from a process of splitting: first you must identify what you want to be useful for, whether it is a religion, an institution, a company, a state, or simply the survival and expansion of your self, and then you need to identify various means, resources and people, more splitting of a unified Reality, which can help you achieve that.
But sooner or later, the splitting self runs into situations which it cannot control. Its biggest dilemma is of course its own mortality, something which it will run away from for most of its life, drowning it in denial and entertainment, or trying to control smaller aspects of Reality that it can have power over.
Or it will get involved in a relationship which simply doesn't work, because it is unable to give up itself to love someone else. Instead, it will try to control the other person, or disengage from the other and spend more time at work or in one's interests, or it will try to please the other by being nice, as a surrogate of genuine embodied love, or it will settle into a safe relationship of compromises, a life of quiet misery.
Death and Love are the two biggest blindspots of the self-informed self, or the ego, which are really two sides of the same coin, because they both require us to surrender to something greater than our self. The self-informed self is unable to do that, and thus has to double down on itself: its own likes and dislikes, its own ideas, its own fantasies, its own selfish emotions 3, its own security, its own distractions, its own power.
A world founded on the self-informed self must necessarily be filled with bullshit, the opposite of Truth, because Truth would shine light on the false nature of the ego, putting the conscious I in charge, which the ego experiences as death. Bullshit from the inside is a rational pursuit, because it is how ego protects itself from Truth, which it equates with Death, because ego "knows" deep down that it is built from falsehood, from a disconnect from Reality.
There is no way to explain to someone stuck in our world of bullshit the extent to which what they believe in and live by are bullshit. They need the bullshit to survive and maintain a coherent sense of self, they need the safety, the comfort, the pleasure, and all the justifications which allow them to not live more consciously.
But sooner or later, Reality finds its way into our lives. People often have to experience a significant loss for that to happen: going through a divorce, losing their wealth or status, plans and ambitions which don't pan out, or if they do, realizing that the gold at the end of the rainbow isn't all that it seemed, losing a loved one, struggling with an addiction, or simply having to face the fact that the life they've built makes them miserable.
In those moments, there is a sense that there is something more important than the bullshit of our world, and the bullshit of the self-informed self. A sense that, as horrible as the things which happened to me were, and that I wouldn't wish them on anyone, there is a beauty which has been revealed through the losses. A clearing of the sky, a sky which I never really paid attention to up until now, taking it for granted like everything beautiful in my life. We can call this 'God' if it so helps, or Reality, or the Universe, or Life, but whatever it is, the ideas that our minds latch onto are always a betrayal of the actuality of Life, which is the only meaningful retort to the bullshit of our world.
1 Happiness, when viewed from our world.
2 Peace within an inhumane world, built by the self-informed self, is bullshit.
3 Emotions as opposed to sensations, which are simply in the body, and feelings, which are more selfless. There is my selfish emotion, and then there is the feeling of the room, the feeling of a song, the feeling of a speech, the feeling of the sky.
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2025-12-02