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My main gripe with the black pill is its obsession with materialism.
People here have talked before about being so black-pilled that they then switched to the other side of the spectrum in being blue-pilled or white-pilled in the case of horseshoe theory. You become so hyper-fixated on looking good, and believing that all forms of outward success are contingent on your genetics, that you realise that you can't do anything about it, so you become blue-pilled - not in the way where you sell yourself a delusional lie that 'being yourself' will get you women and money, but more so a chad Stoic, accepting a more comfortable truth about the world, that it is futile to try be something that you weren't destined to become, and you maximise what you can control, which is living in a way authentic to your heart.
The missing piece in the puzzle in all of this, and the flaw with such pills, is that they all reflect on material things. You chase women, money, status, fame, accolades, numbers, intelligence, but in the end, does this really matter? Does life's value come from having certain quantities and metrics in these things? Does it come from people's perception of you?
It extends even to the self-improvement niche, whereby people who reject the aforementioned things to not be the key to having a well-lived life, make a case for other things. They argue that concepts like maximising your own personal growth, exploring your relationships, forging deeper connections with your loved ones, and creating a sense of purpose for yourself that transcends material wealth are much more important than anything you could physically possess. The problem with this argument however, is that all of these things are actually, by in large, material things, as material things can still be abstractions, and concepts which can be measured and compared against a control or an average. For example with the case about personal growth, let's say you and your buddy start going to the gym, and you can bench the same amount, let's say 50kg, but then he progresses faster than you, and in a month, he's benching 70kg, whilst you're only benching 65kg. Even though you have personally grown by the virtue of strength which should make you happy, you are more than likely sad that somebody, with the same input as you, is doing better than you through no fault of your, or their own, and that they simply have an unfair advantage. You might be in a worse mental state than you were if you had never even set foot in the gym perhaps.
It's not a case of the journey being more important than the destination, but that we have been conditioned to believe that growth itself is a virtue we should be striving for regardless of where we end up, as if that really is the key to happiness. But once growth ends, what happens then, do we feel sad? Well you might say that we have come a much further way than where we first started, whether that be stronger, richer, more wise etc, but should that make us feel better or worse about ourselves?
It is completely human to have desires and aspirations. These are healthy things that should be nourished carefully to live in harmony with our psychology, however as humans, we often let our desires have power over us. If your internal mental state is determined by an inanimate object being in your possession, or fulfilling something abstract, like love or lust, to satisfy your corporeal greed machine, than you inadvertently admit that something external to you has power over you, and you are therefore a slave to it.
I see all these people here bragging about muh, 'sLaYiNg StAcIeS' and these coomers in the comments, reading and jeering OP on like cucked voyeurs, with just the computer screen offering the privacy of a curtain of concealment from their real envy, as they wish they could do the same, but my question to them, would be, why is that so important? Why are you allowing yourself to be unhappy because you didn't experience what OP experienced? Why would you let a woman you've never met in your life make you feel a certain way about yourself? 'Oooo my pee pee feels good, ooo this is great!', like, bro... seriously?
True happiness is a choice. Nothing, or no one, can make you happy, as it is an internal thing. If you seek happiness from the external, then you place an impossible demand on them that will never be fulfilled. It sets them up for failure, and you up for disappointment. Contentment is our default internal state, and society robs that from us as our minds form callouses to shield us from the truths of this world, and ignorance turns to bliss.
However amazing your material situation is, understand that in the end, there is no objective purpose to life, and in the end, none of this matters. The meaning of life, is to create your own arbitrary meaning in it.
If you still want to cage yourself in the prison that society is, then you should still philosophymaxx because it will make you a more emotionally intelligent and wise person, because the skill of though provocation is something that will improve your life in many aspects, such as impressing employers in interviews, and having healthier relationships.
People here have talked before about being so black-pilled that they then switched to the other side of the spectrum in being blue-pilled or white-pilled in the case of horseshoe theory. You become so hyper-fixated on looking good, and believing that all forms of outward success are contingent on your genetics, that you realise that you can't do anything about it, so you become blue-pilled - not in the way where you sell yourself a delusional lie that 'being yourself' will get you women and money, but more so a chad Stoic, accepting a more comfortable truth about the world, that it is futile to try be something that you weren't destined to become, and you maximise what you can control, which is living in a way authentic to your heart.
The missing piece in the puzzle in all of this, and the flaw with such pills, is that they all reflect on material things. You chase women, money, status, fame, accolades, numbers, intelligence, but in the end, does this really matter? Does life's value come from having certain quantities and metrics in these things? Does it come from people's perception of you?
It extends even to the self-improvement niche, whereby people who reject the aforementioned things to not be the key to having a well-lived life, make a case for other things. They argue that concepts like maximising your own personal growth, exploring your relationships, forging deeper connections with your loved ones, and creating a sense of purpose for yourself that transcends material wealth are much more important than anything you could physically possess. The problem with this argument however, is that all of these things are actually, by in large, material things, as material things can still be abstractions, and concepts which can be measured and compared against a control or an average. For example with the case about personal growth, let's say you and your buddy start going to the gym, and you can bench the same amount, let's say 50kg, but then he progresses faster than you, and in a month, he's benching 70kg, whilst you're only benching 65kg. Even though you have personally grown by the virtue of strength which should make you happy, you are more than likely sad that somebody, with the same input as you, is doing better than you through no fault of your, or their own, and that they simply have an unfair advantage. You might be in a worse mental state than you were if you had never even set foot in the gym perhaps.
It's not a case of the journey being more important than the destination, but that we have been conditioned to believe that growth itself is a virtue we should be striving for regardless of where we end up, as if that really is the key to happiness. But once growth ends, what happens then, do we feel sad? Well you might say that we have come a much further way than where we first started, whether that be stronger, richer, more wise etc, but should that make us feel better or worse about ourselves?
It is completely human to have desires and aspirations. These are healthy things that should be nourished carefully to live in harmony with our psychology, however as humans, we often let our desires have power over us. If your internal mental state is determined by an inanimate object being in your possession, or fulfilling something abstract, like love or lust, to satisfy your corporeal greed machine, than you inadvertently admit that something external to you has power over you, and you are therefore a slave to it.
I see all these people here bragging about muh, 'sLaYiNg StAcIeS' and these coomers in the comments, reading and jeering OP on like cucked voyeurs, with just the computer screen offering the privacy of a curtain of concealment from their real envy, as they wish they could do the same, but my question to them, would be, why is that so important? Why are you allowing yourself to be unhappy because you didn't experience what OP experienced? Why would you let a woman you've never met in your life make you feel a certain way about yourself? 'Oooo my pee pee feels good, ooo this is great!', like, bro... seriously?
True happiness is a choice. Nothing, or no one, can make you happy, as it is an internal thing. If you seek happiness from the external, then you place an impossible demand on them that will never be fulfilled. It sets them up for failure, and you up for disappointment. Contentment is our default internal state, and society robs that from us as our minds form callouses to shield us from the truths of this world, and ignorance turns to bliss.
However amazing your material situation is, understand that in the end, there is no objective purpose to life, and in the end, none of this matters. The meaning of life, is to create your own arbitrary meaning in it.
If you still want to cage yourself in the prison that society is, then you should still philosophymaxx because it will make you a more emotionally intelligent and wise person, because the skill of though provocation is something that will improve your life in many aspects, such as impressing employers in interviews, and having healthier relationships.
