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Wish yourself well
There is a war going on to conquer the collective human mind and right now, humanity is losing that fight. How do you get people to continue participating in a self-evidently broken system that obviously doesn’t serve them?
The answer is: you break the people.
You turn them into addicts. You get them addicted to drugs and tell them it’s medicine, addicted to propaganda and tell them it’s media and entertainment. You get them addicted to porn, to self-commodification. You indoctrinate them into an inherently self-loathing consumerist mindset and convince them that it’s empowering, that they’re hustlers, that they’re breaking out of the matrix. You get them addicted to swipes and likes, to dopamine hits, to Netflix binges and Amazon Next Day delivery, to mile-long candy aisles at the grocery store. You get them so accustomed to instant gratification, to easy, quick fixes, that the idea of pursuing long-term depth or purpose never has time to occur to them.
And that’s the real key. You remove purpose. Nothing will turn a human being into a more predictably obedient consumer than a desperate need to fill a void, a need for purpose that they have been tricked into forgetting that they even had in the first place.
Luckily, since the war is for your mind, that means you have home court advantage. All you need to do to effectively fight back is pay attention.
Pay attention to what you consume. Does it serve you? Does it help you grow? Does it keep you sharp? Does it mean you well? Or does it hurt you and take advantage of you? Does it dull you and slow you down? Does it lull you into apathy and emptiness disguised as comfort and convenience? Pay attention and engage with things that do you good.
Wish yourself well.
Ultimately, you are the lens through which you experience everything else. Everything is filtered through your own perception of you. So if you change the relationship you have with yourself, if you truly wish yourself well, you change the relationship you have with the world, which makes it a lot easier to engage with the world in positive ways. And the more people that do that, the better the world becomes.
This text comes from a guy named Pissed Magistus and we couln’t agree more.
