Sometimes, people notice parts of the world that are great and terrible threshing machines, consuming and annihilating all that go near them. It could be a structure of power, a system, or even an individual – but the analogy holds. Some things in life are destructive.
And then these people try very hard to crawl around inside, hoping, perhaps, to disrupt the churning of the great machine with their bones. This does not work – these things just go right on threshing. They don’t even slow down.
When you see one of these things – one of the parts of life that is just a horrific destructive force – just… don’t go near it.
That’s it. That’s all you have to do. Don’t go near it, tell your loved ones not to go near it, and live your life. There is always a path you can take that doesn’t walk through the gaping maw of a terrible demon of consumption, and it’s on you to take that path.
The Opportunity Machine 