Burn After Reading.

I'm gonna do this now...." Those who are familiar with my work will know what a distaste Motivational books are to me...." you see that's how a famous writer will write about his previous book. But since its the internet I can commit this blasphemous act without a moments hesitation. Now, to the matter at hand. I once made an aside about motivational books. I once saw a bookshelf of a friend of mine and all I could see were the names like Joel Osteen and Dannie Hood, and a bunch of names that gave my tongue a rigor mortis. Now, how a person can buy and read such crap over and over again is excruciating. In my list of the most profitable activities that prey on gullibility, motivational books are number two after organized religion, although I think one is  a brain child of the other. But I digress, over the couple of past centuries the intellectual curiosity of humanity rose to unimaginable peaks, suddenly man was asking weird questions and in a blink of an eye we had Copernicus and the solar system, Newton and his gravity theory, Galileo and his telescope, Madam Currie and radioactivity, planes, cars, penicillin, the A and H bombs.... And with all this came the fundamental understanding that we were part of something much greater. Man suddenly came to a realization that humanity is not the centre of the universe. Granted, the universe  doesn't give a rat's ass whether we exist or not. This sudden understanding of reality was blinding. While mankind is grasping around trying to make sense of what life is all about, motivational authors have taken this chance and are making tons of money feeding gullible human beings soul-butter and hogwash; crappy life lessons that are nothing but lies. Motivational books are nothing but psychological exploitation of the insecurity that all of us harbor within ourselves. All my heart's despise and hatred is directed to authors who take advantage of the pain, confusion and desperation of the masses. They write about solutions to human emotional calamities' that are non-existent and are bound to send their readers back to the bookstore for the next issue. Its all a mental con that drains its victims of their creativity, problem solving abilities and their grasp on reality and make no contribution to the betterment of humanity. If you are reading such books, my advice to you is to stop wasting valuable time and money on useless pages of words that talk of nothing but a Utopian world that does not exist, even after death. Take life as it comes, and don't listen to anyone who tells you it will be better. Sincerely, if it ain't better now, it never will be. The future is bulletproof. In the immortal words of Samuel Langhorne Clemens "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." No books telling you otherwise are worth reading
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