"Don't try" is the exact opposite of everything the self-help industry has sold since 1980. It's anti-ambition, anti-growth, anti-aspiration. It's permission to exist without improving. And in a culture that demands constant betterment โ the gym membership, the side hustle, the personal brand, the LinkedIn post โ Bukowski's epitaph is the most radical statement a twentieth-century American has made.
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