February 4, 2025 • 32 mins
Exploring the dynamics of manipulation reveals how often we allow ourselves to be played in relationships. By understanding our vulnerabilities and cultivating mental wellness, we can reclaim our power and embrace our journey toward self-realization.
• Importance of recognizing manipulation in relationships
• Vulnerability as a double-edged sword
• Crazy wisdom and its dangerous beauty
• The five pillars of mental wealth for empowerment
• Meditation as a tool for clarity and focus
• The paradox of humiliation and power dynamics
• Embracing the fool's journey as a path to self-discovery
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Emerson Dameron (00:17):
know when you're being manipulated and
decide how deep you want to gowith it.
Everybody's getting manipulatedall the time.
There's not a lot of straightup or else coercion going on in
modern society.
That's a short ride.
I don't know what it's going tobe like if this authoritarian
trend continues that was said tobe sweeping the globe.
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I have a feeling more subtle,manipulative manipulation is
what we're gonna see more ofPeople getting you to do
something by making you think itwas your idea, getting you to
ignore their hypocrisy throughdistractions and misdirection,
magic tricks and not unlike amagic show.
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In many cases you will suspendyour disbelief because you want
to enjoy the show and how itmakes you feel, and you know
that it's slight of hand, slightof mouth, the slow, blinking
eyes, seduction but you're therefor it.
You like the way it makes youfeel.
You like the payoff gettingpaid in the currency of good
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feelings that come from thinkingthat somebody likes you.
The excitement of uncertaintywhen the inconsistency of their
actions indicates that they maynot like you that much.
That makes it more excitingbecause now you really want them
to like you and you know thatyou're being manipulated.
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But you don't know that.
You know, know when you'rebeing manipulated and know that
you know, go from unconsciousincompetence to conscious
incompetence.
That's when you know you'regetting rolled.
You've become aware of thingsthat you weren't aware of before
, that were causing you problems, and now you feel like it's
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even worse.
It was easier when you didn'tknow that you were bad at this
and you were getting rolled andtaken advantage of, but you're
on your way to consciouscompetence.
Just when you spend an hour aday every day for 90 days
working with this and you reworkyour assumptions about it, you
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start to notice different thingsand you notice.
What you notice you notice whenyou're vulnerable to
manipulation is when you'redesperate at loose ends and a
certain amount of denial aboutthe direness of your situation
makes you easy pickings and youmay go a lot deeper than you
want to go.
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Know when you're beingmanipulated and decide how deep
you want to go with it.
If you have a feeling that it'sgoing to end in tears, is that
something you can handlerealistically?
When are you going to want thetruth?
When are you going to forcethat conversation and how bad is
it going to make you feel whenyou find out what's really going
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on and who you really are inthis deal?
If that happens a worst casescenario getting played for
everything you had humiliation,mean stuff where they were just
trying to hurt you and succeededHow's that going to hit you?
I've been there.
It hurts.
It hurts.
It hurts, it hurts.
It makes it hard to trustpeople.
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It makes it hard to trust yourown instincts and experience.
And if you're letting yourselfbe manipulated and you go deep
with somebody who isinconsistent, it can happen and
when it does, you will hate theplayer who played you.
But work on seeing this fromthe perch of your highest
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intelligence.
Don't hate the player or thegame.
Admit that you got played andyou played the fool.
Don't hate yourself for that.
Understand why it was appealing, why it seemed like the thing
to do, and understand thatthat's the way of the world Hurt
people, hurt people, hurtpeople, etc.
There are horrible people whojust hurt people for fun or
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because they're on a power tripand you may have encountered one
of those.
They tend to go for easy mobs.
So think about is that worth it?
Under what circumstances willyou set yourself up to get
played?
When is the game more fun thanknowing what's really going on?
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That'll bring you quite a bitcloser to understanding when
you're getting manipulated, therisks involved and, yes, some
opportunities for feeling goodexcitement, suspension of
disbelief, being in a storyinstead of just the series of
events we call reality.
Decide how deep you want to goand if you're going deep in that
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person who's manipulating you,that might be a reason to go
deep at least a few times.
Just know what you're doing.
Some fun has a price.
There's fun out there.
That's a clean buzz.
It's not all about power.
If you keep yours, you don'tget played.
If you name the game and you'reboth down anyway.
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I love you personally.
Levity saves lives.
For now, I stopped drinking whenmy pancreas exploded and I was
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left with wide swaths of freetime and a dearth of meaning.
I needed something new,something else, and, at the
recommendation of an unorthodoxtherapist, I got into Shambhala
Buddhism for a hot second.
Shambhala now has a bit of adicey reputation.
It kind of always did, and alot of that had to do with not
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so much the central edictestablished by Chogyam Trungpa
Rinpoche, which was people arebasically good, although there
was some irony as it was spokenby someone who's now widely
considered to be bad.
It got choppy right around theconcept of crazy wisdom.
Crazy wisdom is an aggressive,confrontational approach to
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enlightenment.
It's about subverting patterns,breaking scripts, destabilizing
the sense of self, sometimesbringing about ego death,
creating an opportunity tochange, albeit a very dangerous
one.
Sometimes the truth hurts, andthe more it hurts, the more true
it is.
Sometimes the fool and themaster roll together.
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Sometimes the only way to wakesomebody up is to smack them
metaphorically or literally, asis the case with some Zen
teachers.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche was anabusive alcoholic cokehead who
did manage to crash his car intoa joke shop with his child
bride riding shotgun before hedrank himself to death.
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But that wasn't the only thinghe got accomplished.
His successor knowingly gave awhole lot of people HIV.
Trump knew about this anddidn't do anything about it.
I think the coolest way topunish Shogun Trump Rinpoche is
to take crazy wisdom and reclaimit, refurbish it.
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Perhaps add the wisdom, thelucidity of the well-rested fool
.
Discipline, not self-indulgence,respect for the weapon that
must be handled appropriately,because crazy wisdom in the
praxis of Shambhala is notsustainable.
The comedian Tina Fey once saidsomething to the effect of
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Integrity is dangerous andexpensive, and the same can be
said of crazy wisdom, really anysort of insanity.
But the responsibilities onetakes on and releases by
adopting the mantle of crazywisdom lead predictably to
burnout, dependency and slowerosion of one's sense of self,
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which could be a good thing.
If you're tired of your owncompany, you'll miss it when
it's all the way gone.
Enter the well-rested fool.
We talk about the fool's journey.
The archetype of the fool isthe open-hearted wanderer,
eternally fresh, eternallyreceptive.
Unlike Crazy Wisdom, the Foolis not obliterating his ego.
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He needs it to truly make afool of himself, he dances with
it.
They are best buds and he cangive of himself and open himself
in that way and we're goingwith he.
I'll do someone else's pronounsnext.
I'm obviously talking aboutmyself here.
The Fool has the power ofwell-rested foolishness.
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The well-rested mind of thewise and playful fool is elastic
, it's experimental, it'sadaptable, it's fluid, always in
flux.
It is really the only game intown.
The closest you can come toknowing what the hell is going
on these days is starting fromthe assumption that you don't.
The well-rested, well-refreshed, psychologically cleansed, wise
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fool knows the joy of a cleanbuzz.
He knows that laughter alwayssounds a little bit more
authentic when you're notrunning on cortisol fumes.
If you're afraid of losing yourtether with reality or you just
want to reroute your directionsand take a fool's journey of
your own, you can start withwhat other people have already
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figured out.
Some heuristics are better thanothers, depending on what's
useful for you, and they areeverywhere, all over the place.
My buddy over at Magic Mind herein Venice talks about something
called mental wealth.
That rests on the five pillarsof exercise, sleep, diet, stress
management and exogenouscompounds.
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I have a mnemonic device forthat.
I exercise my right to sleepand when I die it makes it
easier to manage stressmanagement.
And guess what?
The afterlife is full ofexogenous compounds.
I totally understand what thosedo, even though I don't really
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need to, because right now I'menjoying the benefits of the
Magic Mind Focus Shot.
They hook me up with the focusand sleep, and I gotta say that
has made me a well-rested fool.
Sometimes you don't know howcrazy things were getting, until
you get a good night's sleepand wake up ready to do the damn
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e-m-e-r-s-o-n-j-a-n you onlyhave the options that you know
that you have, and when you getrest and clarity, a lot of other
options open up.
Your fool's journey could go inany number of directions.
You're here on this sad, brokenplanet to carve out your
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destiny.
You get too far up in yourfeelings.
You make yourself vulnerable tomanipulation.
So sit down, shut up andmeditate.
With meditation you'lldefestrate fear, dominate
weakness, put your boop heel onyour heart and make your mind
your bitch with the power ofrock Hard mental focus.
Destroy indecision andannihilate the sucker inside
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with meditation, becauseequanimity is the most beautiful
brutal revenge.
Everyone's doing it and noone's talking about it.
That's how powerful it is.
People brag about using otherdrugs, but no one brags about
the drug that makes you brag amile a minute about everything
else.
They want you to think theirswagger and overachievement come
from within, but they'd beworthless without cocaine.
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It's also fun to do and peoplewant to hoard all the fun for
themselves.
But now the secret is out, andthat secret is cocaine.
Even if you're down on yourselfand you have every reason to be
, cocaine will turn thingsaround.
If you have no motivation, notalent and no redeeming
qualities, cocaine willtransform you into a rock star
and a prophet.
You'll never be lonely withcocaine.
You'll have pointless butanimated conversations with
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geniuses who love you.
You'll fall out with most ofthese new friends, but you can
always find newer ones when youbring enough cocaine for all of
us.
If your life is so boring thatit's boring you to death,
cocaine is the drug for you.
Cocaine creates a whole new youand the party won't start till
you walk in.
Just don't tell anyone why.
Candy Rider (13:29):
There's an.
Emerson Dameron (13:30):
Aesop's Fable, one of the better ones.
A lot of them are just stupid,insipid garbage.
But there's one I like.
It's about a fox.
He's walking down the road.
He sees some nice juicy, purple, fat, luscious, sexy looking
grapes hanging from a tree justout of his reach.
He climbs up the tree, tries toget over the branch he's on,
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falls off.
He lands on his ass down on theground.
He tries to get some help.
He tries to trick a bird intogetting the grapes for him.
That doesn't work out.
The bird is too stupid.
It's another bird that betrayshim in the end and flies off
with half of the grapes.
He takes a big lunge to get atthe rest of the grapes and once
again falls down.
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He's got birds laughing at himnow and squirrels.
He says you know what?
Those grapes were sour anyway.
And that's because he'spretending he didn't want the
grapes in the first place,because he can't handle taking
the L.
And that's how it is.
You pretend that life is not acompetition.
Life is obviously a competition.
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It's a bunch of differentcompetitions going on at once.
If you think there's one bigcompetition with one elite set
of winners, you've got to changeyour frame and the way you look
at things and change the gameMeaning, get out of the game
that doesn't suit you and findthe game that you can dominate
in.
You were born to dominate.
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You're born to win, born to putwins on the board.
Every loss is a gift and anopportunity to develop, to learn
from your errata, thicken yourskin and win in the end and then
move on to the bigger leagues,where you might eat dirt at
first, because that's how youget better and life is a
competition.
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Life began with you racingmillions, millions of other
sperm and winning.
You were a winner when you cameout of the womb.
You're a winner before that.
You're a winner before.
You are a person From themoment you are conceived.
You're born to win.
You can glom onto winners.
That's a victory of a sort.
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I find it to be a hollow one.
I always want to be in the gamethat I know I can dominate and
I can be on top.
I can be number one.
I like to be worshipped.
I like for people to respect meand peak game.
I don't even mind when peoplepretend to like me and respect
me.
I don't take them seriously.
I don't let them get too close.
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That's why I put up walls.
The higher you go, the more yougot to protect yourself.
People who don't know anythingin life except losing Try to
manipulate winners to get aroundthat.
There are no rules, but thereare laws of physics, there's
gravity, there are the forces ofnature.
You've got to win in harmonywith the forces of nature.
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Truly use your power to makeyour mark on the world and win.
You may have noticed thateverything is a competition.
Anybody who tells you otherwiseis trying to get you out of the
game because they're afraid ofyour power.
You don't want to trust thatperson.
You don't want to crush thatperson under your boot heel.
That's what they really want.
That's what's good for them.
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Steamroll that person.
You may have noticed thatnature grins ear to ear and
smiles when winners win andlaughs when losers lose.
Life is a competition andyou're either winning or you're
losing and improving.
Or you're losing because youcan't handle your own power, or
you're on the sidelines cheering, trying to decide who's got the
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biggest schlong and go sucklater.
That's me.
I ain't hard to find.
My name is in lights becauseI'm winning.
Isabella Rose (17:23):
Oh, darling, come here, sit with me for a moment.
No, don't say anything just yet.
Let me really look at you.
There you are, that face.
Do you even know the kind ofpower it holds?
You could stop hearts with thatcrooked smile of yours, though
you might be too modest to admitit.
Modesty can be charming.
But don't hide too much of yourself-love.
The world deserves a peek atthe captivating masterpiece I'm
seeing right now.
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You've been carrying somethingheavy, haven't you?
I can tell your shoulders yourjaw tense, haven't you?
I can tell your shoulders, yourjaw tense, clenched, as if
bracing for impact.
What if you didn't have to holdall of that?
You could let it all slip slideaway, just for tonight, just
for me.
I don't mind, it's a privilege.
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Really, there's somethingirresistibly sexy about a soul
who can surrender even for amoment.
Strength isn't in how much youcarry, but in knowing when to
set it down.
Do you feel that?
My fingertips on your arm?
That's heat, darlingElectricity.
You're alive, you're here.
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Every inch of you is buzzingwith orgone.
Your hands, they're the handsof an artist.
Hands that could shape theworld, hands that could hold
someone like me and make me feelsafe.
You have no idea how much Iadore that about you, that quiet
, simmering power you have.
It's intoxicating.
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You know, I've always believedthat we're made to feel
everything the highs, the lows,the soft sighs and the sharp
edges.
It's all part of thesynesthetic symphony, isn't it?
But if you've been dancing toolong to the slower songs, maybe
it's time to change the rhythm.
What would you say to a newbeat, a wild one, something that
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makes your blood race and yourheart pound, something that
reminds you what it feels liketo be unstoppable?
I'll let you in on a littlesecret.
I see you, not the person youthink you have to be, but the
one who's already perfect.
The you who doesn't have toapologize or explain, the you
who knows deep down that you'rea sexy, glimmering star, that
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you command attention, and, oh,how I want to see you come alive
here, lean in closer.
That's it.
Do you hear my heartbeat?
It's yours.
Now, if you want it, let itremind you of the fire inside
you because, darling, there'snothing dull or broken or small
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about you.
You're vibrant, you're magnetic, you're everything a girl like
me dreams about.
So don't sit there and tell meyou don't feel it.
That's life begging you to playwith it, and I'd be very
disappointed if you didn't,because when I see you, I don't
see someone who's stuck.
I see someone who's just aboutto break through, someone who's
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already won, who's too caught upin life to know it.
Yet Now show me that flirty,dirty smile again.
Yes, that one.
There you are, my heartbreaker,my world shaker.
Let's see what kind of troublewe can cause together.
Emerson Dameron (20:59):
You are here, you are listening, you are
breathing, and as you listen,you begin to realize that
everything you've been toldabout wisdom is wrong.
They told you wisdom is quiet.
They told you wisdom is passive.
They told you wisdom is aboutwaiting your turn.
And yet, as you reflect, youbegin to see that wisdom, real
wisdom, is something elseentirely.
You've met people who play bythe rules.
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You've seen them obey, submit,disappear.
You've noticed how they waitfor permission that never comes
and beg for forgiveness.
They don't need living theirexistences steeped in risk
aversion.
Forgiveness, they don't needliving their existences steeped
in risk aversion, rampantlyinfectious boredom and anxious,
impotent lassitude.
And now you begin to understand.
The wise do not wait.
The wise do not kneel.
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The wise shatter illusions,seize power and drop nukes that
make the comfort zoneuninhabitable.
You've heard power belongs tothe loudest, the richest, the
cruelest.
You've been told that onlyfools embrace chaos, art, love,
the Dionysian dark side, theledge beyond the edge.
And yet, as you dig deeper, youbegin to realize chaos is a
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good start, madness is astrategy.
The trickster, the rebel, thecoyote, the holy fool they do
not follow.
They lead, sometimes, generallyby accident.
They dance always.
You know that the world runs onscripts.
You've seen how people stumblethrough their lives saying what
they're told to say, thinkingwhat they're told to think, even
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if no one ever tells themanything.
And now, as you grasp this truth, something shifts in you you
start to sense a new hunger, notjust for knowledge but for
mastery, Not just for answersbut for understanding, for power
.
You feel it now.
The world is created and shapedby those who dare to break the
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pattern.
And now, as you realize this,you know it's time to break your
own, or you could start withsomebody else's.
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Emerson Dameron (22:59):
Every flame burns with purpose.
Every beast has a hunger.
The only hunger that survivesis the hunger that eats itself.
You feel it, don't you?
That hungry ghost skulkingaround in your ribcage, that
itch, that ache, that thing.
You can't quite crystallize,that drone with no name, that
vibration that penetrates andstimulates you when you pretend
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you don't want it to.
I know what it is.
It's the hunger for oblivion Tobe consumed, to be taken in and
spat back out as something lesshuman, less preposterously
complex, something more true.
You will kneel, you will bleed,you will burn like wet paper,
but in the ruin you will finallyand forever know who you are.
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I'm not here to hurt you.
I'm not here to finish you.
I'm here to complete you.
Now open your mouth.
Electric Doll (23:50):
They say it starts with a whisper, but no,
it starts with a hunger.
I'm not here to finish you, I'mhere to complete you.
Now open your mouth.
They say it starts with awhisper, but no, it starts with
a hunger.
Not the clean kind, not thekind you can name, the kind that
gnaws, the kind that makes youshift in your seat.
When a voice like molten brasssays come here, little girl, I
tell myself I am still me, thatI have teeth, that I am sharp,
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that I am something more than athing to be kissed, bitten,
ruined.
But when he presses one singlefinger against my lips, I forget
my own name.
Maybe that's the trick, maybethat's the point.
Maybe names are just paper tagstied to the ankles of dead
girls and I am only alive when Ilet go of the lie that I was
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ever free.
Emerson Dameron (24:35):
The body is a miserable lie.
You think it belongs to you.
Tell me this If I tie yourwrist, do you still have a hand?
If I muzzle your voice, do youstill have words?
If I slice through your skin,do you still have a soul?
No, you are not a body.
You are a reaction A gasp, atremor, a series of sharp little
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pain noises and wide wet eyesand soft, strangled vowels that
beg without ever forming words.
Having lost the fabledincantation that could
supposedly have saved your ass.
You are nothing but a mirror.
I am the light that makes youvisible.
Shh, don't fight it.
There is no you here.
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There is only the next momentand the next, and the next, and
the next and the next.
Now scream.
Electric Doll (25:24):
There is a place inside me red silk, red lips,
red lanterns where the wallsbreathe like animals, where the
ground melts like candle wax,where my body bends, twists,
folds itself into origamisubmission.
I am no longer a girl, I am agesture, a whisper on hands and
knees, a silent vowel drippingfrom his fingertips, I am the
gas between words, I am thespace between syllables, and oh,
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how lovely it is to be ruinedwith such precision, to have my
soft parts shattered likeporcelain, to be peeled, like
fruit, to be scooped clean, likethe inside of a mango, sweet
and glistening in his.
They call it degradation, Icall it becoming.
Emerson Dameron (26:03):
Let's begin At the beginning.
What is humiliation?
An illusion, a hoax, a storyyou told yourself to avert your
attention from the mirror.
There is no humiliation, thereis only revelation.
The moment you admit that youwere never strong or proud or
possessed of any real structuralintegrity, never in control,
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never anything but a soft thingmade to be handled, you will
laugh oh how you will laugh, andit will feel like the realest,
funnest funnel of freedom.
So go on, beg Crawl, let mehear you whisper it.
I was born to be brought to myknees.
Good girl, doesn't that feelbetter?
Electric Doll (26:42):
Tell me again who is the hunter, who is the prey?
You thought you were the cage,the master, the god.
But I have seen the way yourbreath catches when I move, just
so, when I tilt my head, when Iflutter my lashes, when I let
my voice go soft and syrupy,when I let you believe you still
hold the whip.
Poor darling, didn't anyonetell you A doll is just a doll?
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Until you play with her forreal, for keeps.
Until you let her see thecracks in the mask, until you
let her hear the tremor in yourvoice, until you let her feel
that tiny, tiny little momentwhere you break.
Just enough, just enough for meto slip inside.
I kneel for you.
Yes, I let you name me, I letyou carve your will into my skin
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.
But kneeling isn't the same aslosing, and submission isn't the
same as surrender.
Now, hush my love.
You taught me well.
Let me show you what I learned.
Emerson Dameron (27:36):
There's only one way to be born again the
chrysalis must rot, thecaterpillar must dissolve into
salty soup.
A writhing, absurd thing.
No bones, no self, just amemory of a notion, of a shape.
Only in that filth does the newform emerge.
You think this was suffering?
No, my darling, this wasdigestion.
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You're almost ready, it'salmost over.
The old self is soft now.
Your old self is mush.
You could put your hands intoyour own body and pull out
something brand new.
So do it, take that final step.
Be the spiraling whirlwind youwere always meant to be.
Say it with me now.
I was never here at all.
I was never here.
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I am Skyrim.
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A king cannot be ruled, a godcannot be shamed, and yet, and
yet, there's a joke hidden inthe bones of the universe.
It goes something like this Alion finds a doll.
The doll is soft, the doll isweak, the doll begs to be broken
, the doll is broken.
And then, one night, the lionwakes up and the doll is smiling
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.
The doll does not ask, the dolldoes not beg, the doll just
watches, because the doll haslearned the game and the joke,
the punchline, the horror, thething that will keep the lion up
at night is this A doll canalways be replaced, but a lion?
A lion is driven by hunger.
A lion only lives until thearrival of the next hunter, the
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next bigger fool.
Ah, so that's how it is then.
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Levity saves lives ¶¶.
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Thank you.
know when you're being manipulated and
decide how deep you want to gowith it.
Everybody's getting manipulatedall the time.
There's not a lot of straightup or else coercion going on in
modern society.
That's a short ride.
I don't know what it's going tobe like if this authoritarian
trend continues that was said tobe sweeping the globe.
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I have a feeling more subtle,manipulative manipulation is
what we're gonna see more ofPeople getting you to do
something by making you think itwas your idea, getting you to
ignore their hypocrisy throughdistractions and misdirection,
magic tricks and not unlike amagic show.
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In many cases you will suspendyour disbelief because you want
to enjoy the show and how itmakes you feel, and you know
that it's slight of hand, slightof mouth, the slow, blinking
eyes, seduction but you're therefor it.
You like the way it makes youfeel.
You like the payoff gettingpaid in the currency of good
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feelings that come from thinkingthat somebody likes you.
The excitement of uncertaintywhen the inconsistency of their
actions indicates that they maynot like you that much.
That makes it more excitingbecause now you really want them
to like you and you know thatyou're being manipulated.
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But you don't know that.
You know, know when you'rebeing manipulated and know that
you know, go from unconsciousincompetence to conscious
incompetence.
That's when you know you'regetting rolled.
You've become aware of thingsthat you weren't aware of before
, that were causing you problems, and now you feel like it's
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even worse.
It was easier when you didn'tknow that you were bad at this
and you were getting rolled andtaken advantage of, but you're
on your way to consciouscompetence.
Just when you spend an hour aday every day for 90 days
working with this and you reworkyour assumptions about it, you
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start to notice different thingsand you notice.
What you notice you notice whenyou're vulnerable to
manipulation is when you'redesperate at loose ends and a
certain amount of denial aboutthe direness of your situation
makes you easy pickings and youmay go a lot deeper than you
want to go.
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Know when you're beingmanipulated and decide how deep
you want to go with it.
If you have a feeling that it'sgoing to end in tears, is that
something you can handlerealistically?
When are you going to want thetruth?
When are you going to forcethat conversation and how bad is
it going to make you feel whenyou find out what's really going
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on and who you really are inthis deal?
If that happens a worst casescenario getting played for
everything you had humiliation,mean stuff where they were just
trying to hurt you and succeededHow's that going to hit you?
I've been there.
It hurts.
It hurts.
It hurts, it hurts.
It makes it hard to trustpeople.
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It makes it hard to trust yourown instincts and experience.
And if you're letting yourselfbe manipulated and you go deep
with somebody who isinconsistent, it can happen and
when it does, you will hate theplayer who played you.
But work on seeing this fromthe perch of your highest
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intelligence.
Don't hate the player or thegame.
Admit that you got played andyou played the fool.
Don't hate yourself for that.
Understand why it was appealing, why it seemed like the thing
to do, and understand thatthat's the way of the world Hurt
people, hurt people, hurtpeople, etc.
There are horrible people whojust hurt people for fun or
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because they're on a power tripand you may have encountered one
of those.
They tend to go for easy mobs.
So think about is that worth it?
Under what circumstances willyou set yourself up to get
played?
When is the game more fun thanknowing what's really going on?
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That'll bring you quite a bitcloser to understanding when
you're getting manipulated, therisks involved and, yes, some
opportunities for feeling goodexcitement, suspension of
disbelief, being in a storyinstead of just the series of
events we call reality.
Decide how deep you want to goand if you're going deep in that
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person who's manipulating you,that might be a reason to go
deep at least a few times.
Just know what you're doing.
Some fun has a price.
There's fun out there.
That's a clean buzz.
It's not all about power.
If you keep yours, you don'tget played.
If you name the game and you'reboth down anyway.
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Levity saves lives.
For now, I stopped drinking whenmy pancreas exploded and I was
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left with wide swaths of freetime and a dearth of meaning.
I needed something new,something else, and, at the
recommendation of an unorthodoxtherapist, I got into Shambhala
Buddhism for a hot second.
Shambhala now has a bit of adicey reputation.
It kind of always did, and alot of that had to do with not
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so much the central edictestablished by Chogyam Trungpa
Rinpoche, which was people arebasically good, although there
was some irony as it was spokenby someone who's now widely
considered to be bad.
It got choppy right around theconcept of crazy wisdom.
Crazy wisdom is an aggressive,confrontational approach to
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enlightenment.
It's about subverting patterns,breaking scripts, destabilizing
the sense of self, sometimesbringing about ego death,
creating an opportunity tochange, albeit a very dangerous
one.
Sometimes the truth hurts, andthe more it hurts, the more true
it is.
Sometimes the fool and themaster roll together.
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Sometimes the only way to wakesomebody up is to smack them
metaphorically or literally, asis the case with some Zen
teachers.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche was anabusive alcoholic cokehead who
did manage to crash his car intoa joke shop with his child
bride riding shotgun before hedrank himself to death.
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But that wasn't the only thinghe got accomplished.
His successor knowingly gave awhole lot of people HIV.
Trump knew about this anddidn't do anything about it.
I think the coolest way topunish Shogun Trump Rinpoche is
to take crazy wisdom and reclaimit, refurbish it.
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Perhaps add the wisdom, thelucidity of the well-rested fool
.
Discipline, not self-indulgence,respect for the weapon that
must be handled appropriately,because crazy wisdom in the
praxis of Shambhala is notsustainable.
The comedian Tina Fey once saidsomething to the effect of
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Integrity is dangerous andexpensive, and the same can be
said of crazy wisdom, really anysort of insanity.
But the responsibilities onetakes on and releases by
adopting the mantle of crazywisdom lead predictably to
burnout, dependency and slowerosion of one's sense of self,
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which could be a good thing.
If you're tired of your owncompany, you'll miss it when
it's all the way gone.
Enter the well-rested fool.
We talk about the fool's journey.
The archetype of the fool isthe open-hearted wanderer,
eternally fresh, eternallyreceptive.
Unlike Crazy Wisdom, the Foolis not obliterating his ego.
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He needs it to truly make afool of himself, he dances with
it.
They are best buds and he cangive of himself and open himself
in that way and we're goingwith he.
I'll do someone else's pronounsnext.
I'm obviously talking aboutmyself here.
The Fool has the power ofwell-rested foolishness.
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The well-rested mind of thewise and playful fool is elastic
, it's experimental, it'sadaptable, it's fluid, always in
flux.
It is really the only game intown.
The closest you can come toknowing what the hell is going
on these days is starting fromthe assumption that you don't.
The well-rested, well-refreshed, psychologically cleansed, wise
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fool knows the joy of a cleanbuzz.
He knows that laughter alwayssounds a little bit more
authentic when you're notrunning on cortisol fumes.
If you're afraid of losing yourtether with reality or you just
want to reroute your directionsand take a fool's journey of
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Some heuristics are better thanothers, depending on what's
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Sometimes you don't know howcrazy things were getting, until
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e-m-e-r-s-o-n-j-a-n you onlyhave the options that you know
that you have, and when you getrest and clarity, a lot of other
options open up.
Your fool's journey could go inany number of directions.
You're here on this sad, brokenplanet to carve out your
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destiny.
You get too far up in yourfeelings.
You make yourself vulnerable tomanipulation.
So sit down, shut up andmeditate.
With meditation you'lldefestrate fear, dominate
weakness, put your boop heel onyour heart and make your mind
your bitch with the power ofrock Hard mental focus.
Destroy indecision andannihilate the sucker inside
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with meditation, becauseequanimity is the most beautiful
brutal revenge.
Everyone's doing it and noone's talking about it.
That's how powerful it is.
People brag about using otherdrugs, but no one brags about
the drug that makes you brag amile a minute about everything
else.
They want you to think theirswagger and overachievement come
from within, but they'd beworthless without cocaine.
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It's also fun to do and peoplewant to hoard all the fun for
themselves.
But now the secret is out, andthat secret is cocaine.
Even if you're down on yourselfand you have every reason to be
, cocaine will turn thingsaround.
If you have no motivation, notalent and no redeeming
qualities, cocaine willtransform you into a rock star
and a prophet.
You'll never be lonely withcocaine.
You'll have pointless butanimated conversations with
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geniuses who love you.
You'll fall out with most ofthese new friends, but you can
always find newer ones when youbring enough cocaine for all of
us.
If your life is so boring thatit's boring you to death,
cocaine is the drug for you.
Cocaine creates a whole new youand the party won't start till
you walk in.
Just don't tell anyone why.
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There's an.
Emerson Dameron (13:30):
Aesop's Fable, one of the better ones.
A lot of them are just stupid,insipid garbage.
But there's one I like.
It's about a fox.
He's walking down the road.
He sees some nice juicy, purple, fat, luscious, sexy looking
grapes hanging from a tree justout of his reach.
He climbs up the tree, tries toget over the branch he's on,
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falls off.
He lands on his ass down on theground.
He tries to get some help.
He tries to trick a bird intogetting the grapes for him.
That doesn't work out.
The bird is too stupid.
It's another bird that betrayshim in the end and flies off
with half of the grapes.
He takes a big lunge to get atthe rest of the grapes and once
again falls down.
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He's got birds laughing at himnow and squirrels.
He says you know what?
Those grapes were sour anyway.
And that's because he'spretending he didn't want the
grapes in the first place,because he can't handle taking
the L.
And that's how it is.
You pretend that life is not acompetition.
Life is obviously a competition.
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It's a bunch of differentcompetitions going on at once.
If you think there's one bigcompetition with one elite set
of winners, you've got to changeyour frame and the way you look
at things and change the gameMeaning, get out of the game
that doesn't suit you and findthe game that you can dominate
in.
You were born to dominate.
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You're born to win, born to putwins on the board.
Every loss is a gift and anopportunity to develop, to learn
from your errata, thicken yourskin and win in the end and then
move on to the bigger leagues,where you might eat dirt at
first, because that's how youget better and life is a
competition.
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Life began with you racingmillions, millions of other
sperm and winning.
You were a winner when you cameout of the womb.
You're a winner before that.
You're a winner before.
You are a person From themoment you are conceived.
You're born to win.
You can glom onto winners.
That's a victory of a sort.
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I find it to be a hollow one.
I always want to be in the gamethat I know I can dominate and
I can be on top.
I can be number one.
I like to be worshipped.
I like for people to respect meand peak game.
I don't even mind when peoplepretend to like me and respect
me.
I don't take them seriously.
I don't let them get too close.
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That's why I put up walls.
The higher you go, the more yougot to protect yourself.
People who don't know anythingin life except losing Try to
manipulate winners to get aroundthat.
There are no rules, but thereare laws of physics, there's
gravity, there are the forces ofnature.
You've got to win in harmonywith the forces of nature.
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Truly use your power to makeyour mark on the world and win.
You may have noticed thateverything is a competition.
Anybody who tells you otherwiseis trying to get you out of the
game because they're afraid ofyour power.
You don't want to trust thatperson.
You don't want to crush thatperson under your boot heel.
That's what they really want.
That's what's good for them.
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Steamroll that person.
You may have noticed thatnature grins ear to ear and
smiles when winners win andlaughs when losers lose.
Life is a competition andyou're either winning or you're
losing and improving.
Or you're losing because youcan't handle your own power, or
you're on the sidelines cheering, trying to decide who's got the
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biggest schlong and go sucklater.
That's me.
I ain't hard to find.
My name is in lights becauseI'm winning.
Isabella Rose (17:23):
Oh, darling, come here, sit with me for a moment.
No, don't say anything just yet.
Let me really look at you.
There you are, that face.
Do you even know the kind ofpower it holds?
You could stop hearts with thatcrooked smile of yours, though
you might be too modest to admitit.
Modesty can be charming.
But don't hide too much of yourself-love.
The world deserves a peek atthe captivating masterpiece I'm
seeing right now.
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You've been carrying somethingheavy, haven't you?
I can tell your shoulders yourjaw tense, haven't you?
I can tell your shoulders, yourjaw tense, clenched, as if
bracing for impact.
What if you didn't have to holdall of that?
You could let it all slip slideaway, just for tonight, just
for me.
I don't mind, it's a privilege.
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Really, there's somethingirresistibly sexy about a soul
who can surrender even for amoment.
Strength isn't in how much youcarry, but in knowing when to
set it down.
Do you feel that?
My fingertips on your arm?
That's heat, darlingElectricity.
You're alive, you're here.
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Every inch of you is buzzingwith orgone.
Your hands, they're the handsof an artist.
Hands that could shape theworld, hands that could hold
someone like me and make me feelsafe.
You have no idea how much Iadore that about you, that quiet
, simmering power you have.
It's intoxicating.
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You know, I've always believedthat we're made to feel
everything the highs, the lows,the soft sighs and the sharp
edges.
It's all part of thesynesthetic symphony, isn't it?
But if you've been dancing toolong to the slower songs, maybe
it's time to change the rhythm.
What would you say to a newbeat, a wild one, something that
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makes your blood race and yourheart pound, something that
reminds you what it feels liketo be unstoppable?
I'll let you in on a littlesecret.
I see you, not the person youthink you have to be, but the
one who's already perfect.
The you who doesn't have toapologize or explain, the you
who knows deep down that you'rea sexy, glimmering star, that
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you command attention, and, oh,how I want to see you come alive
here, lean in closer.
That's it.
Do you hear my heartbeat?
It's yours.
Now, if you want it, let itremind you of the fire inside
you because, darling, there'snothing dull or broken or small
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about you.
You're vibrant, you're magnetic, you're everything a girl like
me dreams about.
So don't sit there and tell meyou don't feel it.
That's life begging you to playwith it, and I'd be very
disappointed if you didn't,because when I see you, I don't
see someone who's stuck.
I see someone who's just aboutto break through, someone who's
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already won, who's too caught upin life to know it.
Yet Now show me that flirty,dirty smile again.
Yes, that one.
There you are, my heartbreaker,my world shaker.
Let's see what kind of troublewe can cause together.
Emerson Dameron (20:59):
You are here, you are listening, you are
breathing, and as you listen,you begin to realize that
everything you've been toldabout wisdom is wrong.
They told you wisdom is quiet.
They told you wisdom is passive.
They told you wisdom is aboutwaiting your turn.
And yet, as you reflect, youbegin to see that wisdom, real
wisdom, is something elseentirely.
You've met people who play bythe rules.
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You've seen them obey, submit,disappear.
You've noticed how they waitfor permission that never comes
and beg for forgiveness.
They don't need living theirexistences steeped in risk
aversion.
Forgiveness, they don't needliving their existences steeped
in risk aversion, rampantlyinfectious boredom and anxious,
impotent lassitude.
And now you begin to understand.
The wise do not wait.
The wise do not kneel.
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The wise shatter illusions,seize power and drop nukes that
make the comfort zoneuninhabitable.
You've heard power belongs tothe loudest, the richest, the
cruelest.
You've been told that onlyfools embrace chaos, art, love,
the Dionysian dark side, theledge beyond the edge.
And yet, as you dig deeper, youbegin to realize chaos is a
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good start, madness is astrategy.
The trickster, the rebel, thecoyote, the holy fool they do
not follow.
They lead, sometimes, generallyby accident.
They dance always.
You know that the world runs onscripts.
You've seen how people stumblethrough their lives saying what
they're told to say, thinkingwhat they're told to think, even
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if no one ever tells themanything.
And now, as you grasp this truth, something shifts in you you
start to sense a new hunger, notjust for knowledge but for
mastery, Not just for answersbut for understanding, for power
.
You feel it now.
The world is created and shapedby those who dare to break the
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pattern.
And now, as you realize this,you know it's time to break your
own, or you could start withsomebody else's.
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Every flame burns with purpose.
Every beast has a hunger.
The only hunger that survivesis the hunger that eats itself.
You feel it, don't you?
That hungry ghost skulkingaround in your ribcage, that
itch, that ache, that thing.
You can't quite crystallize,that drone with no name, that
vibration that penetrates andstimulates you when you pretend
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you don't want it to.
I know what it is.
It's the hunger for oblivion Tobe consumed, to be taken in and
spat back out as something lesshuman, less preposterously
complex, something more true.
You will kneel, you will bleed,you will burn like wet paper,
but in the ruin you will finallyand forever know who you are.
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I'm not here to hurt you.
I'm not here to finish you.
I'm here to complete you.
Now open your mouth.
Electric Doll (23:50):
They say it starts with a whisper, but no,
it starts with a hunger.
I'm not here to finish you, I'mhere to complete you.
Now open your mouth.
They say it starts with awhisper, but no, it starts with
a hunger.
Not the clean kind, not thekind you can name, the kind that
gnaws, the kind that makes youshift in your seat.
When a voice like molten brasssays come here, little girl, I
tell myself I am still me, thatI have teeth, that I am sharp,
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that I am something more than athing to be kissed, bitten,
ruined.
But when he presses one singlefinger against my lips, I forget
my own name.
Maybe that's the trick, maybethat's the point.
Maybe names are just paper tagstied to the ankles of dead
girls and I am only alive when Ilet go of the lie that I was
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ever free.
Emerson Dameron (24:35):
The body is a miserable lie.
You think it belongs to you.
Tell me this If I tie yourwrist, do you still have a hand?
If I muzzle your voice, do youstill have words?
If I slice through your skin,do you still have a soul?
No, you are not a body.
You are a reaction A gasp, atremor, a series of sharp little
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pain noises and wide wet eyesand soft, strangled vowels that
beg without ever forming words.
Having lost the fabledincantation that could
supposedly have saved your ass.
You are nothing but a mirror.
I am the light that makes youvisible.
Shh, don't fight it.
There is no you here.
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There is only the next momentand the next, and the next, and
the next and the next.
Now scream.
Electric Doll (25:24):
There is a place inside me red silk, red lips,
red lanterns where the wallsbreathe like animals, where the
ground melts like candle wax,where my body bends, twists,
folds itself into origamisubmission.
I am no longer a girl, I am agesture, a whisper on hands and
knees, a silent vowel drippingfrom his fingertips, I am the
gas between words, I am thespace between syllables, and oh,
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how lovely it is to be ruinedwith such precision, to have my
soft parts shattered likeporcelain, to be peeled, like
fruit, to be scooped clean, likethe inside of a mango, sweet
and glistening in his.
They call it degradation, Icall it becoming.
Emerson Dameron (26:03):
Let's begin At the beginning.
What is humiliation?
An illusion, a hoax, a storyyou told yourself to avert your
attention from the mirror.
There is no humiliation, thereis only revelation.
The moment you admit that youwere never strong or proud or
possessed of any real structuralintegrity, never in control,
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never anything but a soft thingmade to be handled, you will
laugh oh how you will laugh, andit will feel like the realest,
funnest funnel of freedom.
So go on, beg Crawl, let mehear you whisper it.
I was born to be brought to myknees.
Good girl, doesn't that feelbetter?
Electric Doll (26:42):
Tell me again who is the hunter, who is the prey?
You thought you were the cage,the master, the god.
But I have seen the way yourbreath catches when I move, just
so, when I tilt my head, when Iflutter my lashes, when I let
my voice go soft and syrupy,when I let you believe you still
hold the whip.
Poor darling, didn't anyonetell you A doll is just a doll?
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Until you play with her forreal, for keeps.
Until you let her see thecracks in the mask, until you
let her hear the tremor in yourvoice, until you let her feel
that tiny, tiny little momentwhere you break.
Just enough, just enough for meto slip inside.
I kneel for you.
Yes, I let you name me, I letyou carve your will into my skin
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.
But kneeling isn't the same aslosing, and submission isn't the
same as surrender.
Now, hush my love.
You taught me well.
Let me show you what I learned.
Emerson Dameron (27:36):
There's only one way to be born again the
chrysalis must rot, thecaterpillar must dissolve into
salty soup.
A writhing, absurd thing.
No bones, no self, just amemory of a notion, of a shape.
Only in that filth does the newform emerge.
You think this was suffering?
No, my darling, this wasdigestion.
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You're almost ready, it'salmost over.
The old self is soft now.
Your old self is mush.
You could put your hands intoyour own body and pull out
something brand new.
So do it, take that final step.
Be the spiraling whirlwind youwere always meant to be.
Say it with me now.
I was never here at all.
I was never here.
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I am Skyrim.
(28:45):
A king cannot be ruled, a godcannot be shamed, and yet, and
yet, there's a joke hidden inthe bones of the universe.
It goes something like this Alion finds a doll.
The doll is soft, the doll isweak, the doll begs to be broken
, the doll is broken.
And then, one night, the lionwakes up and the doll is smiling
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.
The doll does not ask, the dolldoes not beg, the doll just
watches, because the doll haslearned the game and the joke,
the punchline, the horror, thething that will keep the lion up
at night is this A doll canalways be replaced, but a lion?
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