Do you ever feel harsh judgment of other people e.g. they live in the matrix, lie to themselves/others or with low standards, makes you sad and how do you deal with it?

ekmetzger · 2020-02-04T16:40:46+00:00

Most of human existence globally is degradation and sheer horror. Most of contemporary western human existence is misery-lite. Maybe not total immiseration, but definitely could be better.

That said, I have absolutely no fucking time to focus on babyish miseries and other people making judgements. I have a single life. My focus is on me, my accomplishments and my pleasures.

Here's some Seneca that I take to heart (I don't take all stoicism to heart, but he's right sometimes)

“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it?A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.”

SirKolbath · 2020-02-04T17:02:56+00:00

I ignore them. They want to bury their heads in the sand then it's on them.

A good example is /TheBluePill. How disaffected and unaware do you have to be to participate in a subreddit that is literally named after the metaphor for keeping yourself intentionally blind to reality and somehow still think you know better than the people in /TheRedPill?

You can’t save them. Save you.

FereallyRed · 2020-02-04T17:08:34+00:00

Not your pigs, not your farm.