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For serious people like myself, mbf is not that easy, but a lifelong struggle against seriousness. That's a much better story. It sets up the adventure formula of great effort for great rewards. It fits the drama of our times, where indeed it will take a great and prolonged effort to transform serious world. The rewards are pretty standard. There's a cultural ideal of a better world of peace and love and abundance and personal salvation. Every millennial religion claims these rewards, and mbf just assumes the same package, maybe overdoes it. And there's some truth to that, however incredible. It's a powerful position to take. For such rewards, great sacrifice is called for. Mbf can make absurd demands and call upon us to give up our familiar ways. But in fact we enjoy the rewards at the beginning. That's the big attraction of mbf. Fun and games draw us in, and declare the value of what is offered. In some respects we have the answer already, without any further effort. Rewards at the beginning won't last. We need the sinks. So we deny the fun and games, and make funniness the goal. This is indeed more difficult, more of a challenge, actually a false and inferior goal. This is our vital lie. It's a lie that works. We have to work our way out of our serious hole, and mbf is the formula. Is funniness an intermediate goal? No, funniness is not for anything. It's a destination in its own right. If we're going to spend 2000 years there... Of course divine energy is the
point, but we can't just claim the rewards. We need sinks, and
mbf provides them. Our faith in funny is a lie, but it enables
higher things. Lead with sinks. Then we can fill them with the
divine energy.
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