easy for all his sinners lesson two question the status quo it's dangerous to think that the way things are is necessarily the way they should be as queerly autistic tweeted i've come to the conclusion that the sole purpose of homework is to condition children into accepting that unpaid overtime and ridiculous hours and not being able to escape work even in your own home are a normal thing to expect in your future but even those brave enough to attempt to disrupt the status quo need to be watchful too because capitalist markets have a tendency not just to crush revolt but to subsume it using descent to their own advantage rather than simply destroying it then maybe they want to organize maybe they want to rebel and that's why we need someone on the inside who represents worry-free's needs this is illustrated symbolically in the matrix reloaded when neo finds out that he isn't the only one but is one of several versions in a repeating formula where the one's revolt is used to actually maintain the system the anomaly is systemic in the NUMBER_TOKEN film network when newscaster howard beal announces his plan to commit suicide on air after he's fired for low ratings the gesture of revolt causes a huge surge in his viewership thus benefiting the tv network he was revolting against and when beale's later on-air tirades get too anti-corporate the head of the network takes the teeth out of beal's protest by indoctrinating him with the kind of dry abstract big picture language that corporations love because it removes the human element and makes audiences eyes glaze over one vast andy maine interwoven interacting multivariate multinational dominion of dollars language notably similar in that sense to the architects in the matrix reloaded your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix in real life we can spot how corporations likewise co-opt societal resistance in their marketing which shamelessly attempts to reduce social justice issues to press campaigns or claims to be boldly fighting against climate change in service of getting us to buy more pollution causing products lesson three don't make work your identity the world tells us that work is not just a way to earn a living but also a route to self-fulfillment creative expression and general badassery a job can become an identity especially if the work is necessary and or driven by passion you're off work christina go enjoy your day i'll enjoy my day if i can help retrieve a heart i promise but nowadays it doesn't seem to matter what you do as long as you're working really hard at it as sleepy socialists tweeted the worst capitalist brainwash is being proud of your own exploitation saying you've worked NUMBER_TOKEN hours a week since you turned NUMBER_TOKEN isn't a flex it's sad where have you been sleeping all night as we discussed in our video on the devil wears prada and workaholism our modern day obsession with work can be traced back to the calvinist branch of protestantism sociologist max weber wrote that because calvinists believed in predestination they sought to be successful in order to prove they were part of the elect destined to go to heaven in the protestant work ethic mindset which is hugely formative in american culture work is associated with virtue while sloth is a sin but within
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