‘The You You Are’ From Severance Is Real, and I Read It

Fans Apple TV+ ExitYour day will be improved: Apple released eight chapters You are you The fictional book of self -help, Dr. Riken Lazlo Hale, which occupies a central place in the plot of the show. If you want to read it, you can even download it for free or listen to the version of the audiobook told by Ricken himself (actor Michael Chernus).

Brief excerpts from You are you who appeared in Exit are one of the most funny bits in the show, but the released book not only for laughter: this is also a great idea of ​​how propaganda works, both in Exit The universe is in real life.

In the world “outie”, You are you This is a joke, a pretentious book of self -help, only fools relate seriously. But in the world of death, a continuous copy You are you It is considered as the work of a high genius with force to change life and change the world. This is only because the only other book in the office of Lumon Handbook of complianceA heavy, quasi-religious text that exists only so that Lumon can maintain control of its employees. The reaction of Connie to Riken’s work reminds me of those people who read half of the book (or one headline) and suddenly think that they know everything about a difficult topic, and who did not meet some of them?

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Rickene’s endurance is ridiculous and corresponds to the gloomy comic style of the show. This opens: “They say that in childhood Wolfgang Mozart killed another boy, clapping his head on the piano. Don’t worry. My study for this book has proven a statement by a lie ”and continues in this spirit.

The book of Rickene is a practical guide to self -improvement, where readers are designed to get self -knowledge by completing a series of steps:

• Find out your YouType (more about this below), write it on a sheet of paper and attach it to your vanity.

• Write your name on another post-it and fix it next to your YouType.

• Choose theology and add the “totem” of this to your Youushrine. “It can be a Christian cross, an AN-RA scarab, or Masonic Square and a compass,” Riken writes, also offering you can “use a photo or etching me”.

• Add what you think is sexy. As the author says: “Something that whispers in your Nethers voice, only they can hear. It can be a photo of a PIN -AP with the will in the past, your favorite underwear or a still life of a sinuslated pumpkin. ” Riken also offers to use his photo for this step.

• Think about the insult that you heard. Write an acrotic poem using the letter of each word of insult and add it to your vanity. Riken goes with “everyone laughs at you when you leave the damn room”, which was once told to him Exit The main character Mark S.

• Print a copy of the poem that Riken wrote and insert it into your vanity.

• “Take care and found a charitable organization based on a reason that is expensive for you … Do you want to reduce the populations of bears, swim or send water in bottles of astronauts, stay in the course until the organization becomes a procedural viability. Then, as soon as your licensed documents come, attach it to vanity among your other yours. ”

The passage ends here. It’s a pity; I hear the page 197 slap in the face.

Does You are you Turn on any tips about the plot Exit?

In Chapter 3, Riken mentions that he goes to the theater to see the American Religious Satient Film, which I consider to be the most emergency work of commercial cinema ever shot, “we know how we know how Sister ActThere is other evidence in the show, but Sister Act a piece confirms this Exit There is somewhere now in something like our world, despite ancient computers and everyone who drives cars from the 80s and 90s.

You are you Also gives us a ton of background about the nature and history of Rickene. For example, he was conceived and was born as part of a “nine -month work of art that arose [his] Parents entitled “It smells like a postpartum, damn it.”

There is no information about how Ricken has enough money to afford his relatively generous lifestyle. This, of course, is not from the sales of his books, but his parents were performers, so this is hardly family money – if some were not theoretized on the Internet that Riken is actually a member of the black sheep of the Igana clan.

Maybe the most important thing in You are you These are excerpts where we learn about Riken’s feelings for the dead wife Mark (possibly) hemma. When Riken writes about Jamma, he seems to be in love with her. It can be red herring, but how Exit It unfolds, I will not be surprised if the feelings of Rickene to Jamma become the main plot.

A deeper meaning You are you inside Exit Universe

The “big idea”, standing behind the book of Riken, is the “YouType”, the type of invented psychological concept, common for self-help books, pseudoization and cults, think “Language Languages”, inventory of the personality of Mayers-Briggs and Scientology “Emotional Tonal Scale”.

According to Riken, each fits into one of the five YouTypes: coward, warrior, pigeon, scribe and Vestal. This reflects the idea of ​​Lumon’s Lumon Guidelines for complianceThe field according to Kir Igan, there are four “characters”: grief, fluoric, fear and anger, and all the others are determined by the ratio of each inside of himself. Kier’s honest religiosity and the dead aphorisms of Rickens seem to be two sides of the same coin.

In the show, when the “Forces that will be” in Lumon found that the book inspired Conniga You are youInstead, the field instead they turn to Riken with a proposal to write a new version of the book, especially for pierces. Ricken, when the liba is an egoist and a seeker of attention, seeks to continue the project, therefore, at least someone seriously perceives his book. The plan of Lumon, without a doubt, is to raise (unintentionally) subversive ideas in the book of Rickene and twist them to maintain the status of Lumon. This is not a heavy elevator, given that the book contains excerpts such as “a society with purulent workers cannot flourish, just as a person with rotten fingers cannot miss.”

This is all a cunning comment on how revolutionary ideas usually manipulate and co -opode to serve as the ruling class, and how easily people can be deceived so that they feel that they “adhere to this person”, even when a person in profit and protection of himself, Pulling teeth out of dangerous ideas. Think, Wal-Mart sells Che Guevara T-shirts, or one of the richest corporations in the world, creating a television show about dehumanization and suffering corporate breasts.