2022, DIRTY WORKS

A scathing critique of the beauty, health, wellness, spiritualism, and feel-good parameters promoted by consumer society.

Duffy Deeter believes in pain. Nothing like the taste of your own blood to keep you focused on what really matters. Those who spend their lives worrying about their children’s future, about God, or about the order of the universe should go outside and crack a couple of ribs—then their foolishness would pass. A remedy far cheaper than a psychiatrist and not nearly as humiliating. That’s why Duffy is obsessed with fitness, contact sports, and endurance training. For him, everything is about records and competition. Triumph is endurance. Zen Buddhism and books help too—any effort to understand the world, to name the abyss, to grapple with it and avoid the idioc…