50% of people live paycheck to paycheck and have no savings! Oh no!
Wages have been flat for 40 years! Oh no!
Women are disloyal bitches now and are dumping and divorcing men in droves! Oh no!
Climate change is going to kill us all! Oh no!
The Chads are taking all the girls so 95% of men won’t be able to get laid soon! Oh no!
Europe is being overrun my Muslims! Oh no!
Fucking robots are going to put all the truck drivers out of work! Oh no!
Alexandra Ocasio Cortez danced in college! Oh no!
Trump is in the pocket of the rich! Oh no!
Bernie Sanders is going to turn America socialist! Oh no!
The stock market is tanking! Oh no!
We have a student loan crisis! Oh no!
EVERYTHING SUCKS! THIS IS FUCKING TERRIBLE OHHHH NOOOOOOOO!
Okay.
Yeah.
True.
Everything sucks.
But thatâs a problem for everything, not for you.
I have this silly vision of myself at some point in the future. It always makes me smile.
Itâs me, sitting on a beautiful beach on the other side of the world, next to a beautiful woman who is exactly my type (now, Pink Firefly). Iâm in this super cozy beach chair with nice pillows, drinking a perfect piña colada that is melting at exactly the right speed to drink it.
On the other side of me, I have my laptop which is showing me the values of my Asian real estate holdings, precious metals, cryptocurrency, and several other non-Western investments and businesses, all of which are doing well.
Iâm looking out over the pristine blue ocean, and past the water, on the other side of the ocean, I see a giant cloud of billowing, black smoke where Western world used to be, visible all the way over here (I know this would be impossible to see, but this is a fantasy vision, so shut up and just go with it).
I see it, shrug, and say quietly, âHuh. Oh well. I warned you guys.â
Then Pink Firefly turns to me and says, âLetâs go have a threesome with Ashley!â
I burp, then say, âOkay,â and we go do that.
I have found that one of the secrets to happiness, and it really is a secret since society really doesnât want you to know this, is to separate yourself as an individual from âsocietyâ or âeverything.â
See, if you canât do that, then you consider yourself equivalent to society. So if society is doing well, youâll think youâre doing well. If society is doing badly, youâll think youâre doing badly. Whether or not this is actually accurate is another story, but thatâs what youâll think. It’s how most people think. And it sucks. Disempowering as hell.
A better way to view life is to view yourself as separate from society or âeverything.â This way, everything can suck, and you can still be doing very well. Society can be terrible, or on the verge of collapse, or whatever, and your life can be amazing, all at the same time.
I didnât say your life will automatically be great. Youâll have to put in the work to make sure itâs great. The Alpha Male 2.0 lifestyle ensures youâll be very happy even if everything around you sucks, but the catch is that youâll have to put in a few years of work to set everything up. But once youâre there, everything can âsuckâ and you can still live a great life. Read this and this for more details on that.