biographers are dumb

in this world which is becoming progressively urbanized as people get less and less sleep so they can study longer in an increasingly competitive academic environment so they can get better paying jobs and work more hours all to better fit the global model of "successful rich person" people are becoming mechanized, they're becoming expendable statistics. bob the builder is not a human being with a family to robertson construction inc, he's a cell on a spreadsheet that tells the company how much of an economic asset he is and if he is no longer profitable he is laid off

as a response to this we see a newfound appreciation for things such as existentialism and eastern philosophy developing. you are the center of the universe you are so important stop reading this and go seize the fucking day. quit yr 9-to-5 and become a firebreathing circus performer or a photojournalist or a "poet" or something equivalently bohemian. but although this mindset is fairly goddamned moronic (because the last thing we need is more talentless hacks who think that they're perfect unique snowflakes and entitled to respect from society at large when all they really do is drain tax money and suck up oxygen that could be put to better use) i'll admit that it is meritorious to some extent. if everyone were a lawyer or paper pusher or exec we'd get bored p. fast, we need people to take control of their own lives in ways that are inspiring, breathtaking, tearjerking, etc.

so. given this. can someone explain to me why biographers exist

biographers are people who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of studying and documenting the lives of cooler, smarter, more successful, more interesting people in meticulous detail and then getting that account published. they're not seizing their days they're telling you about how other people have seized theirs. imagine for a second that you're the most successful and renowned biographer to have ever lived. guess what buster. you're still not half the person that you wrote that bestselling biography about

future biographer probably

dear biographers of the world: stop living vicariously through people who are better than you and make yr own story

just remember to thank me when you've realized yr full potential

and write yr next biography about me if it's not too much trouble