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Mortal Man: Self-Help Books Are Poisoning White Men.
“Let these words be your earth and moon
You consume every message
As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression” — Mortal Man by Kendrick Lamar
Dear white men:
You are being grifted.
Other white men are lying to you about the pain you feel because it makes them money. They use deception to distract you from the fact that the titans of industry are hoarding more and more of the money that your labor produces. These grifters are primarily white men. They point their finger in your chest and tell you that you are lazy and that is why you don’t have anything. Then they lovingly put their arm around you and tell you if you buy my book, buy my course, listen to my podcast, read my articles on Medium, join my Discord, subscribe to my Youtube channel, join my Mastermind and I will get you to live up to your potential. They are scamming you.
In America, we have been taught that this is a meritocracy society. If we work hard enough we can achieve the American Dream. I am black and I know that is not true. It is one of the myths that we tell ourselves. It is propaganda so we don’t pay attention to a financial system that has been rigged for the rich and powerful while the rest of us sustain ourselves off of crumbs from their table. They have tricked you.
Self-hacking, self-improvement, self-help, get-rich/personal finance, and the productivity genre of books, podcasts, and Youtube videos have betrayed white men. These books have made you shallow, selfish, and susceptible to grift. For the past decade, I have wondered why the white guys I went to high school and college with are so stunted and angry.
Then I concluded that they have been bamboozled by self-help gurus. I accept that some of my white male classmates are in pain. Their pain has caused them to lash out at everyone who is different from them, while they cower from introspection. These white men had been told that they were great and the American Dream was their birthright. They believed in the manifest destiny of the white man in America.
Instead of riches, they found meaningless toil. Divorce and estranged children…
