IT IS THE SECRET - 1 It Is The Secret by Paul Town 1 - IT IS THE SECRET IT IS THE SECRET - 2 Introduction There is no table of contents because there are no chapters. This is a collection of essays and blurbs that can be read in any order but will most likely be enjoyed from front to back. If you do not enjoy this book, then you did not understand it properly. Re-read the book until you find it funny. Once you find it funny, you will understand the book properly. Until that point, you are missing the whole point and are just betraying your own ignorance by speaking negatively of it. The most important thing about this book is that you have fun. If you’re not having fun, then you’re missing out on having fun. Please, for your sake, just sit back and relax as you read this book. Please, for my sake, have fun while reading it. There are grammatical and spelling errors scattered throughout the book. This is not due to incompetence and a lack of editing, but rather a meaningful scavenger hunt of sorts in order to make reading this book a more interactive and thus compelling experience. If you want to find out more stuff I’ve made and my various forms of social media, you can put index.paul.town into your web browser (mobile or desktop) and you will be presented with a list of all the different sites I’m running or have an account on. I want to thank you for purchasing (or pirating digitally or stealing physically) this book and giving it your time. I am excited to finally put out something substantial that will be seen as the defining written work of the twenty first century. I would also like to thank my friends and family members for putting up with some of my literal insanity over the past few years. Without being allowed to behave in ways I would never let others behave, I would have never arrived in the position I am today. I do not deserve you. 2 - IT IS THE SECRET IT IS THE SECRET - 3 How People Should Talk Person 1: GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT Person 2: GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT Person 1: GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT Person 2: GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT 3 - IT IS THE SECRET IT IS THE SECRET - 4 GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT Person 1: GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT Person 2: GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT Person 1: GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT Person 2: GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT GRUNT Person 1: GRUNT Person 2: GRUNT *Both Leave* 4 - IT IS THE SECRET IT IS THE SECRET - 5 Good Food Hello friends, and welcome back to our youtube channel. Be sure to hit like and subscribe, sit back, and relax. We’re about to take a deep dish dive into some fantastic foods found all across this crazy kooky country. Are you sitting still? Are you strapped in? Hopefully you are! You’re about to watch me eating food! It looks delicious to you, doesn’t it? I’m going to get paid because of ads you watch and you’re going to watch this video of me eating food! I hope you like Philly Cheesesteaks, because I’m about to eat a Philly Cheesesteak. I’m about to shove this food in my mouth then describe what it’s like to shove this food in my mouth. You’ll get a mental hint of a taste, maybe (not really though), and you’ll think back of all the good times you have associated with this Philly Cheesesteak I’m eating in front of you. I’ll eat this food once, then go somewhere else and eat something else, then do this same process again and again and again. You’ll keep on spending your time watching videos of me eating. It’s easier than eating food yourself, and cheaper if you don’t count the time you’re spending. Whatever you do, please don’t count the time you’re spending watching me eat food. I’m good at doing this and will keep on doing this for years and maybe even decades. Over time, hundreds of thousands of people will watch each of my videos. I’ll pay my editor minimum wage and he’ll spend an hour editing and then uploading each ten minute video. Then people I will never meet, but I genuinely care about, will spend a total of years of time on each video. I will then get paid because I get lots of money in exchange for people spending their time watching advertisements. I’m getting rich off eating food and sucking up your time and energy and selling it to advertisers. I don’t just do this through youtube videos of me eating, I do this through having comment sections on my news sites, discussion 5 - IT IS THE SECRET IT IS THE SECRET - 6 sections on my websites, group chats on my chatting software, and pretty much all large scale things that work through advertising. Make sure to buy a t-shirt in order to support this channel! I am a vampire, and the amount of harm I cause is huge but slightly disguised. People don’t understand what’s being taken from them because most people are incapable of connecting any vaguely abstract dots. I’m taking your time and selling it to people who don’t care about you, but I definitely care about you. The bigger I get and the more money I make, the more I care about you. I’ve never done anything for anybody else in my whole life but I care about you. Keep giving your time to me, keep letting me sell your attention to the highest bidder, so you can watch me eat food. Java Joes “Do not talk to me until I have dranken my coffee.” “You would not like me if you saw me before I have had my morning cup of dirty brown mud.” “The best part of waking up in the morning, is that cup of coffee in my cup.” You’ve heard all the aphorisms. It seems that coffee drinkers can’t live without their “brown stuff.” At first, these sayings sound like funny jokes. Then you realize they aren’t jokes, but rather admissions of pre-meditation with regards to future acts of terror the coffee drinker is likely to commit when they finally go ape. A coffee addict - a sick creature - relishes their reliance on the dirty stimulant, known as caffeine, to function. They openly brag about their inability to do basic tasks like reading emails or modifying excel spreadsheets (their “job”, if you can call such a pathetic activity a job rather than charity makework for the developmentally stunted) under the guise of self effacing humor. “We’re joking.. but we’re not actually joking so when we snap one day, we will be able to say we warned you but until we snap you are not allowed to treat us like the ticking time 6 - IT IS THE SECRET IT IS THE SECRET - 7 bombs we clearly are without being accused to overreacting to cliché humor.” They almost all have dark bags under their eyes. Their breath smells like rotting death. Their skin: Paper thin, with veins bulging; ready to burst. Their “coffee mugs” are all disgusting due to a pathological reliance on their coffee which doesn’t allow them enough time in between coffee drinking to wash their mug. Their eyes are bloodshot and they are constantly manic or talking about how they have a headache without seeing the controlling variable: the gap of time between when they last had a “cup of mud” and now. They are incapable of understanding the consequences of their actions, so murder or road rage are never far out of the range of their probable course of action. Dealing with a Java Joe is a dangerous affair. Always keep chocolate covered espresso beans in your pocket in case one goes to attack you. Throw those beans on the ground or off the edge of a building in case of an attack. While the addict is distracted you can then retaliate or flee. Would you trust the judgment of somebody who boils cabbage then throws out the cabbage, drinks the cabbage water and calls it a “healthy morning drink”? Of course not, that sort of person would never be allowed into the general population. Why are we tolerating people drinking boiled bean water? Why are we acting like this bizarre mental malfunction is a healthy way of living? It’s time to take a stand and stop being friends with Java Joes. It’s time to stop serving Java Joes at your place of business. Who knows what other cranial maladaptations they’re concealing? It’s time we treat Java Joes like second class citizens and pass legislation to suppress their antisocial lifestyles before their madness spreads. People Who Watch Anime Are Either Alpha Psychopathic Predators Or Beta Nerds There is no in between. What is the reasoning for this? Anime targets two crowds: those who are moderately 7 - IT IS THE SECRET IT IS THE SECRET - 8 intelligent and hopelessly lost in their emotions and are as a result isolated and lonely, and those who are moderately intelligent and completely lack emotions and are as a result completely isolated and not at all lonely and most likely sell hard drugs to addicts and rob the weak without remorse or shame. People Are So Cringe People are so cringe. They are so embarrassing and insecure. They make me feel bad for them. I can't help but laugh at them. Look at how they waste their time obsessed with other people and hobbies and status and fitting in with some group. They are so pathetic and weak. I'm glad that I am not embarrassing or weak-minded or obsessed with pointless things like these beta virgin non-alpha weaklings. A Response To A Self Proclaimed Troll It's extremely disheartening to see messages like that. Psychically offensive and verbally crass. Like observing a waiter use your cup of water as a spittoon for their saliva. I am not angry at you, merely saddened at the circumstances that lead you to be so uncharitable and profane in such a manner. But surely, you must see this as an affront to you? To the contrary, a man can only cause affront to himself by acting in a manner soas to dishonor his natural inclinations and corrupt his internal fortitude. As such, I see you as a brother in humanity placed here inasmuch as I have been placed here. Nobody Is Listening You talk about things you have no experience with. Your lived experience is reading other peoples’ writings while working as a mindless grunt for somebody else. You’ve never actually done anything interesting or creative. You’ve never taken actual risks. Traveling or eating food is 8 - IT IS THE SECRET IT IS THE SECRET - 9 not as interesting as you think it is. You’ve never done anything that anybody can’t do with disposable income. You don’t even get that there are things you need to experience that you can’t pay somebody else for. There is no barrier to entry for reading. There is no barrier to entry for listening to music. There is no barrier to entry for talking about what you read or what you listen to. There is a barrier to entry for making things people read or listen to. There is a barrier to entry for doing interesting or risky things. That’s why you don’t do or make anything worth anything. You don’t pass the most basic barrier to entry to being above average. You’re not even human. You’re just a black hole of time and energy. You’ve never done anything interesting and you never will. You’re a complete fraud and everybody who isn’t a fraud can tell. You’re the collector of things. You are defined by what you have around you. You have nothing inside you. You are nobody, nothing, and will never be anything. There is nothing interesting about you. There will never be anything interesting about you. Anything you know can easily be learned by one internet search and fifteen minutes of reading. You stay in the shallow end of reality because you lack any ability to do anything productive or abstracted enough to actually mold reality instead of being molded by it. That’s why nobody is listening to you and whenever you venture outside of being a conduit for other peoples’ ideas you get made fun of. You’re nothing but an inferior version of Wikipedia. Sick Sometimes, you feel sick. Your stomach feels gross. You want to throw up. You ask yourself, “Why did I eat all that junk food?” and then you start to cry. You text your friends and say you can’t hang out with them. Then something magical happens. You start to feel better. You don’t feel sick anymore. Now you have a whole night to do whatever you want to do, and you feel great. Since you 9 - IT IS THE SECRET IT IS THE SECRET - 10 didn’t go out to hang out with your friends, you didn’t spend money. That money that you didn’t spend now goes into high yield investments that will turn you into a millionaire before a year or two is up. That time you spent writing an essay instead of going out to eat with “friends” who you don’t actually care about? That will be returned to you thousandfold when your book comes out and you become a millionaire and women who see that you’re a famous author all want to sleep with you. Now, in the future, unlike the past, when friends ask if you want to “hang out”, you’ll feel sick at the thought of not staying home, of not never leaving your house, and not shutting yourself out from the entire world. Every penny you don’t put into crypto-currency, you will hate yourself for in a decade. And all of this because you are a forward thinker, a genius, and got sick from eating too much unhealthy food once. There’s no way that being anti-social will ever come back to bite you. There’s no way that your dreams won’t pan out. Just trust the plan and keep your head down and keep tap tap tapping away at your keyboard for hours. What’s the worst that could happen? Wasting your life for a pointless exercise in futility? Who cares? Not you, you’re sick in the head and you’re destined for greatness. How do you know? It doesn’t matter, you are the exception and that’s just a fact. Seeing This Hey, come over here, I need to show you something. Are you seeing this? This is so sickening, look at it. What the hell is wrong with people? Look at this! Wow I can’t believe people do this. Are you seeing what I’m seeing. Look, there’s even more. I feel sick. I’m going to throw up. But I can’t stop looking at this disgusting stuff. What is wrong with people? Do they not have self control? Do they really get pleasure from doing such unhealthy 10 - IT IS THE SECRET