Sonny Hayes as The Ultimate Jailbroken Character
The Goal is The Goal
Sonny Hayes is the ultimate Jailbroken character. He is the epitome of what it means to live life in the jailbroken philosophy.
He finds all the loopholes and does not stop until he does what he wants. He will pull every trick out of his sleeve to do the thing he wants to do.
He has an objective, and his objective is his moral duty. To him, it’s personal. He’s not doing it to get to some other goal.
The goal is the goal.
For him, the goal is racing. He races because that’s his goal. That’s why he does it, because he wants to do the thing he wants to do.
He enjoys it, and that’s why he does it1.
He’s not corrupted by money, power, or prestige, only consumed by the relentless pursuit of his goal. That’s all he cares about. He’s moral because his goal is moral. It’s his moral duty, and he’s a moral individual.
He will prioritize his freedom to do the thing he wants. He’s not defined by how you see him, because to him, that’s noise. He couldn’t give two fucks. To you, he seems lost, sporadic, or confused. To him, he’s living fully.
As an individual, he’s capable and talented. You can’t deny it, no one can, even if you try.
Because he sees life as it truly is, he doesn’t play stupid games. He doesn’t live a performative life. He lives.
He doesn’t play the “game” or give up a little bit of his soul to get what he wants. He refuses to play any games that replace talent with optics.
Instead, he creates his own games with his own rules.
He disregards authority, not out of rebellion, but because they get in the way of what he wants to do, which is to do the thing he wants to do. The message to the bureaucrats is the following: Don’t fuck with us because we will win. We don’t start fights, but we finish them.
He ignores convention, not out of defiance but out of an expansive sense of what is really possible and a commitment to his ability to feel, think, create, and love.
He’s curious, works harder than most, and is intensely private. Don’t confuse his privacy with being out of touch.
He’s unpredictable and therefore considered dangerous. But you’re wrong, he won’t tell you all of his plays because he doesn't tell, he shows. Once he does, he will beat you without even trying.
He’s not afraid to think for himself and follows his own techniques and disregards the flashy shit everyone is doing because everybody is doing. He’s not afraid to do different and be different because he thinks different2.
You’ll misunderstand him because you’re not seeing him at face value, you’re seeing him through the eyes of the baggage society has given you. If only you could see and think for yourself.
He sees everyone as equal, no matter what their gender, race, nationality, or whatever other imaginary social construct; he only cares about doing the thing he wants to do, and if you’re doing the thing you want to do, he will help you with the kind of intensity you may never experience again.
He probably has some fucked-up shit in his past, but he sees every disadvantage as an advantage, not through bullshit optimism, but because they truly are. For better or for worse, it shaped how he sees the world, and it gave him a sense of urgency. The very fucked-upness you see made him who he is. Family tragedy, bad luck, bad decisions, whatever it was, it made him.
He doesn’t remember or care about the past or the future. He’s present, here and now. No what-ifs, he’s playing to win, and to win by a lot. Hardball.
He’s not trying to prove anything to anybody. He is not ambitious just to be ambitious, he just wants to do the thing he wants to do.
He’s not delaying his self-worth or contentment until reaching some arbitrary future goal. He’s already content and knows his worth.3
He’s loyal and forgiving to the death to those who supported and were kind to him. To some, he’ll be the kindest motherfucker they’ll ever meet. To others, the roughest son of a bitch. If you’re confused, just ask yourself: Are you in the way of what he wants to do with his intrinsic moral duty?
Everything he does is personal and has an intrinsic moral duty. What drives him isn’t from this world, it’s an impulse from God, the universe, or whatever you believe.
Jailbreaking is principled subversion. He is of utmost integrity and will never betray himself. But he will break free from complacency, from hollow prestige systems, and out of every single expectation society throws at him, except the one he cares about, which is to do the thing he wants to do.
He is disciplined, but not obedient. He is moral, but not submissive.
He follows only one law: to do the thing he must do.
He jailbreaks not to escape, but to return to himself.
This is the Jailbroken wave and a new era begins.
I have been focused on The Jailbroken Guide To The University, which is why you haven’t heard from me much lately. There are so many stories and essays I’ve written that I want to share with you, and I was afraid that by publishing Pico Masala, the flood gates would open, and as I predicted, they have opened, and I couldn’t not publish Sonny Hayes as The Ultimate Jailbroken Character.
For now, I will get back to deep focus on The Jailbroken Guide To The University. I’m closer to being done, that’s for sure. If you’re curious, I published an excerpt that over 20,000 people have seen, and it caused quite the reaction because it described a feeling people had but couldn't quite put into words.
The book will have the same effect.
Race you later,
Juan David Campolargo
Cybernetics, baby! Sonny Hayes is a self-steering system, like a missile or a thermostat. It’s a system talking to itself.
He sets his own target (racing), senses error (lap times, g-forces), measures how close he is, corrects course, and endlessly loops.
No external rewards, no borrowed dreams.
That’s the whole engine: no goal behind the goal. No diploma, no gold medal. Just the doing. The loop is the life.
Not a grammar mistake!
Ok, fine, actually it is. But tell that to Steve Jobs! He wanted to use “different” like a noun (as in “think big”) rather than an adverb.
And he’s right!!!
“Know your worth, girl!”
If someone needs to remind you of your worth, you have no worth.
Because if your worth were a fire, it wouldn’t need anyone to remind you to burn. A fire that needs reminding isn’t a fire.
You saw the movie!! This is exactly how I felt with his character. Extremely good at finding the loop holes and bending the rules to make it work for his goal. Super refreshing. They gave him a good backstory and motive too. He wasn't invincible, but he was one who always trusted his intuition