I've been trying to figure out my personal life philosophy.When I write 'you' below I'm addressing myself. I'm not suggesting anyone else needs to follow this. If you find parts of it useful, knock yourself out. I'm more interested to find if anyone has adopted something similar.Provisional tenets:1. No BSing yourself. Zero tolerance for BS in any form. The better you accept reality, the better your chances of achieving your goals.2. No matter what your goal is, figure out what you need to do to achieve it. This is not a BS 'only you can achieve your goals!! Total personal responsibility!!' conservative-guru type thing. I mean, yeah, as a basic fact of reality, if you have a goal you pretty much need to achieve it yourself. This is not so much about self-reliance, more recognising the basic fact that other people for the most part are delusional irresponsible derps who get in your way. 3. Try and eat healthy/sleep/exercise/avoid fucked-up emotional garbage. Just don't go overboard with this. I mean, if your goal is to be a swole gigachad, then, sure, do what it takes to achieve that. The point is health is not an end in itself, but being healthy negates lots of easily avoidable problems.4. Actually, zero tolerance for avoidable problems in general. If you can fix something, and it doesn't require too much time/effort/energy/resources, just fix it. Of course, many problems require effort to solve, and time and energy is finite, making it difficult to solve all of them. Which leads me to: 5. Avoid getting sucked into lifestyle guru/self-improvement/total-personal-responsibility crap. It is cult-like, obsessive, and weird, and usually stems from some vague daydream of turning yourself into a gigachad alpha sex god than anything tangible. This part might sound contradictory to the earlier points so might need some elucidation... [Continued]
Alright, what's the difference between this approach and self-improvement guru nonsense? One difference is obsessiveness. This is not an all-encompassing lifestyle manual imposed on you by an outsider. I am pro-lazy, or at least lazy-tolerant. Any of that 'you worthless maggot, you need to sign up for my 24-hour life improvement plan' is usually more seductive cult-like masturbation that causes further problems.If you can laze around while achieving your other goals, go for it. 6. Alright, but what is one to do? How should you spend your finite time on this planet? Let's begin with what to avoid: - therapy nonsense. At some point you realise that most people are irresponsible, useless idiots, and most therapy is designed for these idiots. In all honesty you will have to figure out your own problems. (See point #3.) If someone else helps you figure out some specific point, that's a bonus, but don't expect it as a default. - whining. Avoid whiners and eliminate the habit of whining yourself. I mean, everyone enjoys a good whine. It's fun as hell. Doesn't accomplish anything, though, so don't confuse it with action. - not dealing with shit. Person mocking you or 'being mean to you'? Either learn to shut it down, avoid that person, or just learn to ignore it. You can deal with some social problems by being minorly sociopathic and treating social systems as a game to be beaten. Most people are not that smart, so you can probably outmanoeuvre them if you learn to play the game when you need to. - blowing things out of proportion. Literally, almost nobody cares about anything that happens to you. Avoid saying stupid shit or publicly doing anything too controversial, and you can avoid 98% of social drama. - any kind of identity politics, victim mentality, virtue signalling, all that nonsense. I think everyone with half a braincell knows this stuff is for idiots, but it's worth repeating. [Continued...]
- following on from the previous point: not only should you avoid identity politics, victim mentality, virtue signalling, and so on -- you should also avoid obsessing about identity politics, professional victims, virtue signallers, and so on. See, this one is harder to do. It's easy to be smart enough to avoid the nonsense I listed, but not quite smart enough to just ignore it. As in, how often does any of that shit actually effect you? I have heard so many conservatives, libertarians and similar whinge about woke virtue signallers that I start to wonder if they are using it as an excuse to avoid fixing their own lives. 'waaah, I can't do anything because the snowflakes are taking over!!' Really? Or are you just exaggerating the influence of a small minority of nutcase college kids? That said, this shit can be hard to deal with if it's in your workplace, or floating around your circle of friends. Use your brain and learn to tactically keep your mouth shut if need be. Yes, it's fucking annoying, but trying to fight a one-man crusade against 'TEH LEFT!!!!' has driven many otherwise capable individuals to the brink of insanity.- indeed, the best approach is to avoid most mass politics as much as possible. It is largely designed to stoke up the emotions of idiots so that they take some minimal action to support whichever campaign. 'but but muh trump is winning! all my maga friends are fighting back against the swamp!' alright, sure, awesome. Just don't be disappointed when your new political movement hits the same problems as every other political movement.Sooner or later you will realise the problem is not corrupt 'elites' holding down the virtuous 'masses', the masses are just as fucked-up and retarded as the elites. The sooner you accept this, the happier you will be. [Continued]
'but but you're just being a smarmy both-sides guy!!! avoiding taking sides when you should be taking sides!!! akshually TEH LEFT has been taking over and we need to fight them!!!'yeah, whatever. I'm sure Trump will do something useful, just don't expect him to be the messiah and make anime real.I mean, his new wave of supporters, people like Elon and Rogan, are largely disaffected Democrats. It's good that they've abandoned the woke train, but eventually there will be a clash between his hardcore MAGA supporters and the swing voters who joined his faction in last week's election.Similarly, it would be fantastic if he cut gov't spending, but a huge chunk of spending is healthcare and pensions. Good luck getting his Fox News boomer base on board with cutting that. Anyway, I'm saying to avoid politics when you can, so enough on that. (Moving abroad if you can do it is outstanding for enabling you to stop caring about most politics.)Anyway, what should a person spend time on, once they've freed themselves mentally, physically and spiritually from the screwed-up system? (At least as far as they are able.)Many things. I'm tempted to say something wholesome like build, create, paint, write, whatever it takes to bring something new into existence. Or just live life and explore worthy culture and the work of great minds. Travel if you can. On the other hand... I don't want to pass out a secret success manual for how a person should live there life. As they gradually exit from the various bullshit traps that keep people hooked in multiple levels of spiritual decay and psychic parasitism, eventually their eyes start to open. Gradually the layers of fog and confusion start to lift from awareness. Usually answers to "what should I do?' naturally begin to reawaken, as one's healthy desires and drives begin to reemerge.There's a stage many pass through, which to outsiders can look like apathy, though from the inside feels more like "pleasant neutrality".
>>17277640Notice how the people who say might = right is bad are just trying to get you to not fight.
life is unironically "live, laugh, love". just don't give a fuck and don't be a coward
"Pleasant neutrality" is not really a problem, though. It can feel like a problem, when you have been busy dealing with lots of problems in the past, and associate: - frantically fixing problems with succeeding- lazing around with failing(Because, in the past, lazing around stemmed from apathy, and usually happened when problems mounted up so much that you stopped caring about them.)Maybe you finally reached a point where you truly don't have any urgent problems, though, and your baseline existence seems fairly pleasant. What then?I mean, from that point you're pretty much ready to strike out on your own. I reached this point in a lesser form several years ago, but ended up getting sucked back into contract work. But then I managed to make pretty decent money and saved most of it, giving me years worth of freedom. Then I dealt with lots of emotional BS, which kept me caught in needless turmoil. Recently I hauled myself out of that. Unfortunately there are very few people now who can relate to how I live my life, but it is what it is.
>>17277849Ye, basically. I was going to write a little on that book (author is Ragnar Redbeard if you want to look it up) but decided it wasn't worthwhile. But, basically, passing through a phase of thinking like a complete amoral sociopathic egoist can be a useful exercise.That is, if you completely abandoned all conventional morals (only pretending to adopt them out of convenience), wwyd?It's pretty liberating to think that at the base level of reality, the only thing you have to accept is the laws of physics. You have to accept that specific actions lead to specific consequences. If you want certain consequences you have to take certain actions. Realistically, 99.99% of people have no chance of becoming a warlord and conquering an empire, and even if they did, their likely end state is bleeding to death after being vigorously ass-raped by the next warlord.I mean, even if you trained for a decade and became the most hardcore warrior you could, an expert in martial arts and master sharpshooter, you'd likely be screwed if you faced up against ten armed and organised guys. Or one capable sniper.You could try and lead an army and hope that you didn't end up shafted by your subordinates or a rival army, or... you could accept that the reigning system is flawed and just try to work around it.So, "might is right" ends up being pretty limited as a life philosophy, but it's a helpful starting point to break out of your preprogrammed societal bullshit.
