A quote to start us off:
Most men spend their days struggling to evade three questions, the answers to which underlie man's every thought, feeling and action, whether he is consciously aware of it or not: Where am I? How do I know it? What should I do?
By the time they are old enough to understand these questions, men believe that they know the answers. Where am I? Say, in New York City. How do I know it? It's self-evident. What should I do? Here, they are not too sure — but the usual answer is: whatever everybody does. The only trouble seems to be that they are not very active, not very confident, not very happy — and they experience, at times, a causeless fear and an undefined guilt, which they cannot explain or get rid of.
They have never discovered the fact that the trouble comes from the three unanswered questions — and that there is only one science that can answer them: philosophy.
- Ayn Rand, Address To The Graduating Class of The United States Military Academy at West Point New York -- March 6, 1974
We've been seeing some lost seekers lately. Guys asking the Third Question Rand outlines above. Some are at a basic level of, "I get that I need to live for me, but someone needs to tell me how." Other guys are like, "I've totally transformed myself. I'm interesting, good looking, fit, but bored. Someone tell me what to do next."
Wake up boys. This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time. I'm going to guess that MRP appealed to you because it gave you a vision, a vision of how to become the person you've always wanted to be. How to become The Most Interesting Man in the World. But that's just a recipe to fake it until you make it. All Your Gains Are Belong to Us... unless you have or develop an explicit philosophy that really makes you that guy. As the man said, "Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken."
That philosophy is rational egoism; there's simply no way around it. Those of you who think you can sneak Christianity in the back door by spouting some Red Pill-esque Bible verses are doomed to either outright contradict the teachings of your faith or sink back into beta-dom by being consistent with them. Those of you carrying on about Stoicism are simply kicking the can down the road, and at some point you too will have to choose.
I'm not here to tell you that embracing Rational Egoism will be easy; on the contrary, the Altruism we were all raised on is the core of the Blue Pill and tough as fuck to undo. But you must undo it, whether you knowingly do so or not. If you don't, it's back to the Matrix with you, no exceptions. If you try to do so subconsciously or half-assedly, you will find things unnecessarily volatile in your life. Smooth sailing one day, maelstrom the next.
I personally have no stake in your religious beliefs. You can be as rational or irrational as you want. Of course I have no stake in your success or happiness either. (And I'm definitely not here to debate whether or not there is a God.) But the Truth is the Truth: you ditch the Altruism or you get eaten by it, fast or slow.
So if you find yourself wondering, "What next?" I'll give you one last hint: get your philosophical house in order.
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