snakelips #5

Dear Snakelips,
I would like to again draw your attention to some Philological triumphs. Right now that Department is focusing on acronyms. For example: YOLO (You Only Live Once), might seem to mean take caution and care with their frail mortal shells, but what it actually connotes is "Live fast and die young", which was embraced in the last generation. It is always beneficial to put new names to old things, it brings a sense of novelty that humans always stumble into. On the heels of this we've introduced FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) which is treated simultaneously as something to be guilty and proud of. It is wonderful that they are able to see the folly of their behaviour, put a name to it, and then wear it like a badge of honour.
The underlying Goal is that every reckless and dangerous inclination of their silly hearts would be embraced and pursued. We have put a lot of work in the last centuries into condemning repression. That work is now bearing fruit in this generation so that they condemn any sort of restraint at all. Every desire is pursued, every experience tested, and we reap a harvest ripe with bitterness and betrayal and chaos. This is of course a direct attack on the Enemy's Joy of patience. The concept of putting something off until the right time cannot even be raised by his servants without mass rejection based on the "dangers of repression". In a few hundred years we may reverse it and encourage abstention from everything good and bad, but for now this is serving well.
What we want is for them to consume themselves with experiencing everything and then die unexpectedly because of it.
They only die once,
Screwtape