So You Want to be a Genius
If you want to be a genius, they’ll use you like one. It may be better to live a simple life and portray yourself as useless so as to prevent yourself from being used. What is a genius but a vessel for creativity? An individual hounded and wrung dry by the enforced mechanisms of society. Pressured to consistently and endlessly meet and exceed expectations like that of a racehorse clocked and encouraged by the social whip to exceed its own time?
If I am to express myself aloud as a 27-book author, I am met with momentary surprise, a brief period of silence, and measure of relief. I am exalted in the eyes of another, praised for a culmination of ten years of hard work and dedication — by no means is it genius. Each book was built painstakingly as though from a forge from the mind, and yet at face value, when my accomplishment is spoken to the receiver of the information, the number 27 is perceived as instant and unscalable as though magicked into existence in one moment in time. My books are not taken to be a product of a decade but rather an eventful explosion conjured within the span of a sentence.
That is simply to say, society does not care about the lengths you have strove to cement your hard work. They expect still more — greater heights, heavier expectations, an infinite expanse of fulfillment. You are a robot, a human resource to stripped of all available value, systematically robbed of the space and long breaths required to pour yourself from the soul into the manifestation of a work containing knowledge. It is for that reason that I have come to despise school, college, most especially is the robber of time. It treats one as a candle wick, feeding off your wax until all that you have to give in essays and in time is strategically burned out into nothingness.
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Hello! We’re D.J. Hoskins
We are Davena and Jason Hoskins, co-authors of 30+ books and siblings who write under the pseudonym D.J. Hoskins. Three years apart and in our twenties, we have been fascinated by stories from a young age. Davena is a student attending Princeton University, and Jason attends Georgetown University.
