From wwww.chuurchofapathy.com.
http://www.chuurchofapathy.com/StevePavlinaSucks.html
Steve Pavlina is the Devil
In case you’re unfamiliar, Steve Pavlina is a swindling knave who’s made a fortune for himself blowing hot air up the asses of normal working people, over inflating their egos just to inevitably get popped on one of life’s many thorns through his eponymous website/cash cow
On his “About Me” page, Steve describes his purpose in life to be: “to live consciously and courageously; to enjoy, increase, and share peace, energy, passion, and abundance; to resonate with love and compassion; to awaken the great spirits within others; and to fully embrace this present moment.” Aaah, isn’t that sweet?
Unfortunately, this sort of place, whether it be perceived as an outward or inward reality, requires the consumption of moderate to heavy amounts of potent drugs, and only lasts a short period of time relative to the rest of your aimless, meaningless existence. Anyone purporting otherwise is either insane or trying to sell you something. Judging from Mr. Pavlina’s photo, a guess of “a combination of equally large amounts of both” would likely be most accurate.
But of course, as cute and fuzzy as this statement of purpose sounds, the DXM zapped cough syrup spiked coffee swilling geeks locked in the basement of some corporate headquarters high rise I suspect of being the true creators of this toxic sludge between circle jerk competitions realize that they’d have little more than just another unprofitable hippy blog on their hands if they didn’t incorporate the idea that their hallucinatory fantasies could be applied to make a shitload of money by whomever reads it, and so they built it, and naturally the precious traffic came.
And everyone, on top of learning to enjoy, increase and share peace, made lots and lots of money. Well, everyone who’s name is Steve Pavlina, not including Steve H. Pavlina of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that is.
A truly clever fiend, Pavlina’s gift for grift has served him well in today’s capitalistic first world - populated with its millions of people struggling to reconcile the amount they have to work in order to achieve their materialistic nirvana (or just make ends meet) with the universal lie that the world should be at the feet of anyone with a functioning brain and an ounce of courage - because the truth is, like having an exemplary knack for hitting a ball with a stick or possessing the uncommon combination of being able to carry a tune and great boobs, harboring a talent for conning people with get rich quick schemes, or in Steve’s case, get rich schemes marketed as “personal development” programs with all their obligatory spiritual realization mumbo-jumbo, is one of the few ways one can get rich quick in this modern society of ours.
But it’s not an honest or honorable way. The implicit message contained in Pavlina’s writing is that people who work for someone else are either inherently inferior or are brilliant, creative dynamos who’ve yet to take the leap of self-faith required to fulfill their potential - a cynical ploy by a charlatan who knows full well that most people are just dumb enough to consider themselves intelligent and will hence associate themselves with the latter - a delusion that is cleverly reinforced by the non-coincidence that the page they are looking at happens to be titled “Personal Development for Smart People”, and they are, after all, reading it.
Sheer treachery. Imagine the thousands of mostly decent, humble people being whipped into an ego frenzy that drives them to quit their useful, albeit maybe a little menial and dull, jobs to follow their dreams into the abyss by starting their own doomed, impractical businesses - coffee shops doomed to be crushed by Starbucks and porn sites fated to drown in an ocean of competition featuring people who other people would actually want to see fuck each other.
Is there really any shame earning a paycheck building the homes we live in, installing the cable TV we love to watch, and digging the graves we’ll be thrown into when we die? No way. Just imagine what would happen if everyone tried making their living writing a blog like Steve Pavlina - six billion people starving to death, complaining on the internet how much starving to death sucks in an increasingly strange, incoherent fashion.
In truth, there are only a small percentage of people capable of running things effectively, and it’s foolish to believe that such an ability is a gift, because being in charge sucks. If you’re feeling bad about yourself and your life, try watching Springer. Or a documentary on a refugee camp in Sudan. The grass might seem greener, but it’s not, and climbing fences is a pain in the ass.