Saw this post about a guy getting over his insecurity with introspection and Socrates quotes. Doesn't matter he had sex I guess, but I would push back against his solution, introspection. So I'll use that post as a jumping on point for a rant against braincels.

There's a reason you are unhappy and the simpleton is happy. He has more truth on hand than the people that are more analytical and neurotic. You can only learn so much about swimming from observing the water from the sidelines. You just gotta take a leap and jump. Your primal brain knows reflexively how to swim. The knowledge for basic human interaction is within you. Our society just told you to understand before you act. And you took the bait like many others. Philosophy is just the male hamster. It spins analytical bait for you male brain that loves to devour systems, relationships and logical sophistry.

Do not indulge in this self pleasure, it will distract you from going out in the world and learning from it. Conquering it. And all the pleasures and needs that process fulfills. Your brain indeed needs to consume causality, learn, understand... and it will chow down on sophistry, but it's nutritional value is that of cardboard. It will not make you a master of the world, it will only make you a master of your own- limited values and principles. You will become a master, but of yourself. And that master will still hold grudges, anger, judgement and all those will be pushed towards the object of his mastery - himself. You, and your baser feelings and natural needs will become an absolute slave to the god-emperor of knowledge you aspire to create. (sounds familiar?)

If you're a virgin, a kid, a shut off isolated pencil pusher - you won't find out anything but what you already know. Your inputs are limited. If all your environment is safe and stable - then all the conclusions you can get out of analyzing it, is that you like safe and stable.

Something else that I see, that the original OP mentioned is the inevitable asexuality of the analytical loser.

One thing among many for me is that I've realized that I had a sort of "self hate" for not having a voracious sex drive, "pit bull tenacity", and being unable to freely express my sexual desire.

This is hugely complicated. But your identity started out based on desire, within the social context you find yourself. First it was a untapped verocious sex drive that was not received by the world, then there was a process of internalizing and suppressing it - then you rationalized that suppression as an state of the fact identity - "that's just not me". This is how I am actually, this is my natural state of being.

This happens for all labels. We can not see ourselves clearly and the factors that created us. The observer can not be the observed. What we observe is what we are, which in the case of suppressed people is essentially a shell of a whole person with experiences and agency in the world. When you don't have good reference experiences within the world - you think of yourself as a finished product and the world's influence as disturbing, intrusive even evil. It's something that disturbs your balance.

But i have horrible news. You're not in balance, you are falling. You are just used with the downward momentum, everything around you has the same momentum so from your point of reference it's all neutral. Until you hit the ground.

He ends with somewhat of a shield for post modern maladapted kids.

Your truth shall set you free.

I would reframe this... If it doesn't set you free, if it's not useful to navigate the world, if it's not a saber you can cut reality with - it is not truth. It's just a shell you built around yourself to avoid the world and it's demands on you to change and grow within it. You can not have your own truth. There is one truth. But lies can be as varied as situations multiplied by people, that's why you like them. You get to have your custom, very particular set of biases and self imposed limits validated.