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+date = "2018-03-16T00:00:00.000Z"
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+title = "I opt out, too"
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+> “I opt out of all of the bullshit I never signed up for to begin with.”
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+Get up.
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+Go to work.
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+Go home.
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+Sleep.
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+Repeat.
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+Such a life is one of survival, not living. Maybe some real living is squeezed in around the edges.
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+A snatch of meaningful human interaction on the occasional evening — here.
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+A weekend away — there.
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+A long holiday — once in a while.
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+Scraps of life paid for by the cremation of time **nobody** can afford to waste.
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+Yet we have to.
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+Or *do* we?
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+[**I Opt Out.** *From this very moment forward I no longer subscribe — to your priorities, principles and pointless pursuits. I opt out…*](https://medium.com/geezer-speaks/i-opt-out-ee3b693c5bf3 "https://medium.com/geezer-speaks/i-opt-out-ee3b693c5bf3")[](https://medium.com/geezer-speaks/i-opt-out-ee3b693c5bf3)
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+I say get *up*. I say, **wake up**.
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+I say *fuck that* to all of the above.
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+Fuck that to a life that isn’t.
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+To a day on repeat, for all of my horribly short existence.
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+Fuck that to working just to survive.
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+To spending precious hours of freedom recovering from the very work that provides for.
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+Fuck that to Modern Society.
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+To all its materialism, celebrity ‘news’ the only ‘light’ in the mill of hate and fear.
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+Fuck that to being told how to live.
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+To being told to live an *un*life.
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+I’ve always festered this idea, of breaking free. I never quite subscribed. Never quite fit in, because I didn’t like being told what to do. But was afraid to stand out. I still am, but my eyes are opening to the fact freedom is worth it.
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+Even still, it will be a lifetime’s work. But that’s a worthy cause — better than an *un*lifetime’s work at *any* rate.
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+Starting today, I will not like or dislike something on the whims of someone else.
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+Starting today, I will do my level best to disregard social norms.
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+Starting today, I will be the spanner in the gears of civilisation.
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+Starting today, I will not let anyone tell me how I should live.
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+Starting today, I consciously hit *‘unsubscribe’* on Society.
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+I know [Brian Brewington](https://medium.com/u/b0f2a24f7463) is with me. I know that [Where Angels Fear](https://medium.com/u/6c8bcd0d1a65) will be glad of the riot. I know that [Gaëlane](https://medium.com/u/e3ddbb5fdbd5) has the hang of this already. Regardless…are *you* with me?
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+### Are you ready to **live?**

content/post/2018/03/the-key-to-immortality/index.markdown

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-title =	"The Key to Immortality"
-date =	2018-03-31
+date = "2018-03-31T00:00:00+01:00"
+title = "The Key to Immortality"
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 #### Perpetuation from a shattering?