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You’ve got that dreamy look on your face.
You want to career down a mountainside

in a perspex ball: shake up the days,
dazzle the world with your escapades.

You wake up here, in a shabby career,
in a perspex ball, not travelling at all.

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You are not enough. I love this poem by copywriter Nick Astbury. Sums up the work in “Status Anxiety” by Alain de Botton and Tom Hodgkinson’s “How to Be Free”. These images are designed to make us feel inadequate and create a discomfort that convinces us that arrival and closure in the form of a cure is but one purchase away.