Fans of Apple TV+’S CompensationHer day will be shortly before the improvement: Apple has published eight chapters of That you are The fictional self -help book by Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, which is of central importance for the action of the show. If you want to read it, you can even download it for freeOr listen to the audio book version, which Ricken (actor Michael Chernus) tells.
The short extracts That you are That has appeared in Compensation are among the funniest parts of the show, but the book as published is not only a laugh: it is also a great description of how propaganda works, both in the Compensation Universe and in real life.
In the “exit” of the show, That you are Is a joke, a pretentious self -help book that is only fools. But in the world of the Innies a poorly guessed copy of That you are is viewed as the work of the outstanding genius with power, to change life and change the world. This is only because the only other book is in the Lumon office in Lumon The compliance manualA clumsy, quasi-religious text that only exists so that Lumon can keep control of his employees. The reaction of the Innies to Ricken’s work reminds me of the people who have read half a book (or a single heading) and suddenly believe that they know everything about a complex topic and who have not met some of them?
what is That you are around?
Ricken’s excerpt is fun and corresponds to the dark -comic style of the show. It begins with: “As a child, Wolfgang Mozart killed another boy by hitting his head into a piano. Don’t worry. My research for this book is not true” and continues in this sense.
Ricken’s book is said to be a practical guide for self -improvement in which readers should obtain self -knowledge by following a series of steps:
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Find your Youtpe (more on this below), write it to a piece of paper and attach it to your vanity.
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Write your name on another post-it and glue it next to your yotype.
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Choose a theology and add a “totem” to your Yoshrine. “This could be a Christian’s cross, an an-Ra-scaraba or a Freemasonry square and a compass,” writes Ricken and also suggests that you can “use a photo or an eraser from me”.
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Add something to keep you sexy. As the author puts it: “Something that whispers her Nether with a voice into a voice. This can be a Pinup photo of the war from the past, a loved underwear or a still lifetime of a longing pumpkin.” Ricken also suggests that you can use a picture of him for this step.
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Think of an insult you have heard. Write an acrostic poem with the letter of each word of insult and add it to your vanity. Ricken goes with “everyone laughs when you go out of the damn room”, what he once said by him Compensation Main character S.
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Print a copy of a poem that wrote Ricken and insert it into your vanity.
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“Take a non -profit organization and found on the basis of a thing you love. Regardless of whether you want to limit the bear populations, swim or send water in astronauts, remain the course until the organization is proceeding. As soon as your license papers have been received, they deal with vanity under their other totems. “
The extract ends here. Too bad; I hear page 197 slaps.
Does That you are Connect information on the plot of one Compensation?
In Chapter 3, Ricken in a theater mentions to see “an American religious satirical” that I am ever produced for the above -headed piece of commercial cinema, which has ever been produced, a film that we as knowledge as Sister Act. There are other evidence on the show, but the Sister Act a little confirms that Compensation Now takes place somewhere in our world, despite the old computers and everyone who drives cars from the 80s and 90s.
That you are Also Gives us a lot of background story about Ricken’s character and history. For example, he was born as part of a “nine-month performance artwork” and born by (his) parents entitled “Smells like Afterburth, F ** Ker”.
There is no information about how exactly Ricken has enough money to afford your relatively wasteful lifestyle. It is certainly not from the sale of his books, and his parents were performance artists, so it is probably not a family benefit – unless some have theorized online that Ricken is actually a black sheep member of the EAGAN clan.
Maybe the most important in That you are are the passages where we learn about Ricken’s feelings against Marks (maybe) dead woman Gemma. When Rick writes about Gemma, he seems to be in love with her. This could be a red herring, but as a Compensation I do not unfold myself if Ricken’s feelings towards Gemma would become an important point of action.
The deeper meaning of That you are Within the Compensation universe
The “big idea” behind Ricken’s book is the “Youtpe”, the kind of invented psychologically “emotional tonscala.”
Everyone fits according to Ricken in one of five Youtypes: the coward, the warrior, the pigeon, the writer and the Vestal. This reflects the idea behind Lumon’s Compliance manual. According to Kier Eagan, there are four “minds”, hurt, shit, fear and malice, and everyone else is defined by the relationship of each in themselves. Kier’s cumbersome religiosity and Ricken’s’ brain death aphorisms seem to be two sides of the same coin.
In the show, when the “powers that are” in Lumon “, the book inspired the Innies to get up, their reaction is not to forbid or discredit That you are. Instead, you approach Ricken with an offer to write a new version of the book, especially for Innies. Ricken, always the egoist and attention seekers, strives to continue the project so that at least someone will take his book seriously. Lumon’s plan is undoubtedly to co -opt and twist the subversive ideas in Ricken’s book to support the Lumon status quo. It is not a serious buoyancy, since the book cannot thrive passages like “A society with angered workers, just like a man with rotting toes cannot skip.”
This is all a clever comment about how revolutionary ideas are routinely manipulated and co -opted in order to serve the ruling class and how easily people can be made to have the feeling that they “stick to the man”, even if the Mann from a man is once benefiting and protecting yourself by taking your teeth out of dangerous ideas. Think, Wal-Mart sells Che Guevara-T-Shirts or one of the richest companies in the world that make a TV show about the dehumanization and the misery of the corporate plackerie.
