Citizens Guide to Contemporary Life

Citizens Guide to Contemporary Life.

This manual is prescribed for modern citizens in order to optimize efficiency and productivity. Significant changes may or may not be required depending upon the citizens starting point. Differing starting points may require extra time for realignment. This manual applies to those living individually, in shared housing, employed and unemployed.

Citizens are required to have a schedule that aligns with one of the aforementioned categories. Your job or lack thereof is your purpose. Your value is determined on productivity whether that be in your job, video game, etc. When a citizen is asked how are you, the correct response is busy. However fine or I don't know are acceptable answers as well.

Time is of the essence. Citizens are permitted to prioritize efficiency and practicality. Citizens are required to have at least one social media account. Social penalties and realignment may occur with refusal.

Citizens are granted the choice of one daily news source for optimal efficiency. Too many opinions may lead to confusion and lack of order. The narrative will not be questioned; if so citizens will be required to engage in realignment. Participants are to act in alignment with their news intake. Failure to do so may cause uncomfortable questions or social reorganization.

If the viewer mistakenly sees a spike in negative emotion from the news they should immediately open a different social media and choose a video that will restore emotional homeostasis.

Participation in social media is to be the most streamlined medium for news and relationships. This enhances the citizens' reach of communication and reduces the need for the logistics of a gathering. Irony is encouraged to be the primary content of conversation, resulting in maximal enjoyment. Emotional discussion is to be avoided as this may result in an inefficient use of time. Socializing with neighbors may require additional oversight. Block parties may be cause for social reeducation.

Identity is to be placed contingently on the citizens' status or lack thereof, curated by social media intake, or self-defined. Identity in some cases may be directly related to a tribal identity. Failure to do so may result in realignment.

After a contingent identity has been formed emotional optimization is required. Comfort may be recognized as the old sofa, a new television, or takeout. It is at this point the citizen will stop cooking because ordering delivery is more efficient for your schedule and prioritizes comfort. Discomfort may result in self reflection and additional inefficient roles. Disengagement is recommended, failure at this point may result in lack of productivity as discomfort increases.

At this stage the citizen is permitted to engage in sensory regulation. An efficient immediate emotional response may require additional media intake or short term dopamine inducing activity. Participation in short term activities will increase efficiency and avoid discomfort. Abstraction is to be avoided in order to achieve long term success. Failure to do so may require reengagement.

Contingent Outcomes:

Citizens may experience various outcomes or instructions dependent on their efficiency and productivity levels. Citizens shall continue to function without the expectation of meaning; failure to do so may require reevaluation. Irony is to replace emotional expression and abstraction. Dopamine spikes are to be the only measure of emotional stability.

For sustained and proficient success citizens may experience one of two profiles. Both profiles are deemed successful. Failure to do may result in nothing, restart at any point in the process.

Profile A: Citizen is to experience meaning as comfort and to avoid risk or obligation. Preferences are to be the main focus.No further motivation or action is necessary.

Profile B: Citizen is required to apply meaning to resistance and objection. Resistant action is permitted and will not be subject to reevaluation. Actions committed by profile B are considered to be justified. Await further instruction.

Citizens in Profile A or B, no corrective action is necessary.