Human Behavioral Patterns of the West Coast vs. East Coast
The West Coast and the East Coast couldn’t be more different. One essentially has a culture of relaxation, while the East Coast has a culture of work. For people in the West, tasks can be completed next week. For people in the East, the task must be completed today. There is an obsession with deadlines, dates, and times. On the West Coast, time and space are abundant. On the East Coast, time and space are restricted. Such readily available things in the realm of nature are made artificially scarce, cordoned off, constrained. The eastern portion of the United States exists in a willful state of pathology. This is to say that the air itself is tainted with a persistent tang of anxiety, much like the consciousness of a college campus during finals week. A mechanism of the design, not one of nature.
The East Coast is obsessed with extraction. The common phrase used in daily life is, “production,” or “productivity.” However, in truth, it is an extractive environment. One where the labor is squeezed at maximum pressure, while their resources are funneled not towards the top explicitly, but instead to the shareholder. People at the top such as CEOs and executives in general are well compensated, no doubt; however, resources are primarily siphoned towards shareholders, not necessarily the executive class. In bureaucracies such as three letter agencies, the defense and military apparatus, the library system, etc…, compensation is not as important as the exercise of power. Having power within these organizations is not as important as exercising it as often as possible. Many people in bureaucracies have power over someone, and that power will be used even if it’s against the best interests of the person holding it. For example, I myself am in a position of power within one of these institutions, however, my power is often forced into use by those who require the completion of tasks within the organization. I do not want to use it, and I often go out of my way to avoid using it. Alas, I often find myself in sudden and precarious positions where I am forced to use it. I am forced to take on the unfavorable position of being the bad guy, when I have no interest in being the guy at all. Nevertheless, this is the constant state of things ever since I’ve moved to the East Coast. Mainly because an artificial sense of urgency is forced on the broader populace in major cities.
This sense of urgency is primarily brought about through economics. By economics, I mean economic coercion. By economic coercion, I mean direct means of economic force. By economic force, I mean the threat of homelessness via the mechanism of unemployment. Make no mistake, this is a form of violence. It is a form of extreme violence against the will of the sovereign individual, the average citizen. Thus, for anyone who wants to relax, take a day off, or do something besides work. They will find themselves in an unwinnable situation. The advent of A.I. has only made things worse in this environment. For this pathological sense of competition has only increased, even among the creatives. However, in truth, even the word, “creative” has been co-opted by corporations as a means of increasing worker productivity. And so, if you are creative, it’s best to keep such things to yourself if at all possible. Less you face the wrath of not only the corporate marauders, but the townspeople; the merchant produced, self-enslaving American population obsessed with consumption above all else.
Compared to the West, people in the East are pathologically aggressive, competitive, and conformist. They have a, “Just Like Me,” syndrome combined with a, “You’re Useful, We’re Friends,” alongside a smattering of, “I Don’t Take No For An Answer,” cancerous mentality. One might well only be able to describe their mental makeup as, distateful, to put it mildly. To sum them up succinctly, the best phrase would be, “Mad Sheep Disease.” A poison of the mind injected through the willfully destructive chaos of the economy. Forcing in toxins of deruralization, dissimulation, and finally, complete individual destabilization.
When it comes to dealing with such infected individuals, it’s best to use subversion, lest they attack you as a group. However, using methods of deception is not only dangerous to the self, but also difficult to do with any degree of consistency. Yet, failure to do so will lead you astray into year long wars of attrition, as their competitive, anxious nature will seek to splice you to the atomic level. This is to say that even if you do not feel that you are competing with them, they will let you know that they are competing with you. They seek to compete over nothing, over the air you breathe even. If they could get away with it, they would surely cut your throat and dump you into the nearest body of water for the pleasure of pseudo-masochistic domination. Thus, for anyone who feels the need to move to one of these toxic cities in order that they may earn a decent wage. You should consider your options carefully, as once you arrive, it will be very difficult to leave. As the system will attempt to extract all of your earnings through inflation, taxation, tolls and tickets, or any other hairbrained legal scheme they can push through the corrupt American court systems. Cities are trap doors for the educated and uneducated alike. They are prisons full of inmates who dine at overpriced restaurants and shop at Nordstrom in feeble attempts to gain the, “city experience,” that is, to feel alive.
From what I can tell, the “city experience,” is a mirage. It’s an illusion built up by conspiring marketing executives. However, it is worse than that. For cities no longer need to market themselves (although they continue to do so), they’ve resorted to pure, unadulterated economic force. Remote work, oddly enough, is a dead refutation of the sham that is the city. Modern cities are about theft, a heist that actively defrauds the populace. When people were working remote, all revenues went down. No, “down” is an understatement. State and corporate revenues crashed into the earth. People didn’t leave their houses, they didn’t eat out, and were trying to add as little to the “economy” as they possibly could. I’d go as far to say that the U.S. economy is a scam. Perhaps “scam” is the wrong word. The U.S. economy is a sham, as it consists of people being forced to go to lunches, drive cars long distances to work, get haircuts to maintain workplace standards, alongside putting on fancy suits and shoes that they do not want to wear… The U.S. economy is maintained through hostility and force. It is a poison society maintained through naked force. Coercing people to do things that would otherwise never be in their best personal or financial interests. Especially if they could work from the comfort of their own homes, as was proven in the years 2020 to 2022, respectively.
The West Coast is much more lenient than the eastern portion of the United States, however, the more relaxed the town or city you find yourself in on the West Coast, the harder it will be to find employment. I know this to be true, as I lived in Idaho for about two years after leaving the military. The unemployment rate was not high, however, finding a job that paid a livable wage was a very real challenge. Primarily because the economy was not nearly as strong as in say California, which has a multitude of cities within the territory. I am not against working, for after all, I’ve written nearly fifty books. What I am against however, is the wasting of people's time, energy, and income. For as they say, spending money is like dumping a pale of water into the desert, while earning money, is to collect sand with the tip of a pen. This is obviously not the case for all, but is the case for the working majority of men in general.
The East Coast and the West Coast couldn’t be more dissimilar. Economically, socially, spiritually, and especially as it relates to earning a living. Neither one has healthcare, neither one cares about its workers, however, at the very least. Employers on the West Coast do have a culture that is significantly more beneficial to the American worker in general, compared to their compatriots in the East. Evermore, compared to the West Coast of the United States, the East Coast has nothing desirable, and nothing in general.
Hello! We’re D.J. Hoskins
We are Davena and Jason Hoskins, co-authors of 40+ 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 Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Princeton University, and Jason attends Georgetown University.
