“Elon Musk is not a Nazi. The Nazi’s made good cars.”
This clickbait illustrates how easily we are drawn in by our addiction to drama.
The credit for it goes to the amazing Mr Stephen Fry, and it is expertly-crafted.
The message written above the gates at Auschwitz that says “Work will set us free” was too an expertly-crafted message to the masses that passed underneath.
It told them that they were going into a labour camp where work would set them free. But we all know what really happened there. If it was profitable then slave labour, if it was not then death by poison gas.
Our addiction to drama leaves us vulnerable to the myth of salvation.
Just as vulnerable as each human that passed through the portal to the camp.
Far-right-wing white-supremacists, as some would prefer to call them instead of ‘fascists’, promise salvation. Salvation from immigrants. Salvation from the ‘deep-state’. Salvation from economic disaster. And, we are all so easily manipulated by these fake messages of salvation.
But the reality is, no-one is coming to fucking save you.
What will actually set us free is outwitting our addiction to drama - and it is an internal fight that we have to win.
We have to fight for our freedom, or die trying. We really do have to fight to outwit our illusions that have us trapped in our addiction to drama and leave us vulnerable to being manipulated. I use the word ‘fight’, because it is a battle of wits. Because it is not easy to sit with our shadows.
My new book explains how to fight to outwit our addiction to drama, and to step confidently into our power. The power to say ‘no’.
The power to say ‘no’ to the healthcare insurance AI that determines when it is time for us to die based on profit. Just like in the death camps. The power to say ‘no’ to putting profits ahead of people. The power to say ‘no’ to fascism.
“Are you a communist?”
“No I am an anti-fascist”
“For a long time?”
“Since I have understood fascism.”
– Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
I started to write my new book in the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, in the Long Bar where Hemingway wrote his novels.
Our addiction to drama is why we’re all so afraid of the big bad wolf of AI
The American healthcare system has developed DNA analysis to the point where it now knows when you will die. This DNA analysis determines underwriting of the insurance, and then an AI manages the claims.
The AI in the healthcare insurance claims then determines when it is time for us to die. This has become the benchmark for the healthcare business model, and whether we like it or not, it will influence how healthcare insurance operates globally.
It creates massive profits for billionaires that own the healthcare system that entirely depends on us allowing this to happen.
Our healthcare insurance system is the true inheritance of that message “Work will set us free” written on the sign above the gates of Auschwitz. We work until the AI decides it's time for us to die. This is a manifestation of industrial genocide.
And, AI is the big bad wolf that everyone is afraid of. AI in itself is a tool, and it is us who can decide what this tool is to be used for.
We have to believe we have the permission and the power to say ‘no’.
And the problem is that we don’t say ‘no’.
We don’t say no because our addiction to drama has us distracted, overwhelmed and stuck in the belief that we are powerless.
The healthcare system wants us to be obese so they can make profits.
The healthcare system wants us anxious and depressed so that they can make profits.
The healthcare system wants us to be in chronic pain so that they can make profits.
If we continue to tolerate our own ignorance and indulge in our addiction to drama, then we, our children and our grandchildren are going to be consumed by the billionaires who put profits ahead of people.
Becoming aware of your shadows, and the addiction to drama that they cause, and learning to outwit them is a human super-power that makes you un-fuck-with-able.
It gives you confidence and power.
It gives you the choice to say ‘no’ to the fascist system of putting healthcare profits ahead of people.
The cost of addiction to drama in my family
My grandmother was a five-foot Welsh fire-breathing dragon and her anger absolutely terrified me as a small child. She could feel that she had frightened and alienated myself and the rest of the family and she hated herself for it. She was addicted to drama and she hated herself for being trapped there. She was as-angry-as-fuck and she didn’t know why? By 1995 everyone she was angry with was dead, and what she was left with was her self-hatred until she too died in 1999.
The cost of my addiction to drama was that I fell in love with and married two different women who were as equally addicted to drama and blaming others as my grandmother was. Because I thought that was normal. I inherited my addiction to drama and ended up getting divorced twice. That is what my addiction to drama has cost myself and my children.
I inherited my addiction to drama from my family. We all do.
Addiction to drama is the epigenetic dragon in our DNA.
Is that what you want? To spend your entire life addicted to drama and die with lonely self-hatred at the end of an unfulfilled-life like my grandmother? Or to put your kids through two miserable divorces like I did?
The prize of outwitting our addiction to drama is self-sovereignty
My new book is not just about ‘what not to do’, it is about becoming the integrated person that we were always meant to be, where we can thrive free from our addiction to drama.
Investing in outwitting our addiction to drama brings us freedom:
The self-knowledge about our addiction to drama works is freedom.
The self-benevolence of having the choice to put ourselves first is freedom.
The self-sovereignty in having the power to say ‘no’ is freedom.
And, the cost of not transforming and its impact on ours and future generations is huge.
So what’s your price of freedom?
Are you willing to risk your ego to steal the prize of freedom from the dragon of your addiction to drama?
Are you willing to accept the mission to outwit the Gollum of self-hatred in your shadows?
What’s it going to cost you if you don’t?
I hear you say, “So fucking what? What are the real tangible benefits? Is this going to get me rich? Is this going to get me the man of my dreams? Is this going to help me live forever?”
That is your addiction to drama. Your fears that have you trapped in your addiction to drama are doing the talking.
And the answer is once you unblock your emotions that have you locked in your addiction to drama then you will get:
Self-knowledge - you get to unpack the pain that you were taught to ignore, and you learn to feel and heal instead of burying emotions.
Self-benevolence - you get to unlearn your toxic survival tactics, like people-pleasing and suffering in silence and replace unhealthy coping mechanisms with healthy responses.
Self-sovereignty - you get to challenge the narratives that you grew up with and you get to challenge the stories you were taught about love, success and self-worth and rewrite the script.
BUT you’ll only get results if you then choose to take action and go after them and make them happen. And that’s on you. No-one is coming to fucking save you.
What happened to me when I started to work on my addiction to drama:
In the first six months I went from flat broke, jobless and in debt to making six-figures.
I learned how to get out of relationships with people who were addicted to drama like I was. I learned how to build and repair relationships.
And, I’ve invested & prioritized my health. I’ve passed the fitness tests designed for emergency services workers because I chose to prioritise my health above all my other commitments.
This was not overnight success. It’s taken five years of committed fighting to outwit my addiction to drama. I fought to get out of my own way and I outwitted my addiction to drama. And you can do that too.