Things really aren’t that bad, but we need to be careful to avoid fantasy

The last 10 years have been some of the most demoralizing in history. This level of social and political unrest, which means poor mental health for us, hasn’t been seen in America since the 1960’s. Stress is up and births are down. It’s easy to fall down a rabbit hole of gloom and doom, but that’s because powerful people know that fear can be used to control us.

Stop living in fantasy. Those who chase fantasies have to sense. The 2020s will be characterized by the endless supply of dopamine hits available to us. Someone from 200 years ago would be as clueless as natives when they saw ships for the first time; they didn’t know what it was and it didn’t compute.

Corporations know how to take advantage of the powerful biological systems that control the majority of our actions. As Tom Bilyeu says “we are having a biological experience.” The inputs we receive into our minds and bodies are artificially enhanced to an extreme degree. Without sober, objective judgement and discernment, we can easily be overcome by our base emotions like lust and fear.

Thomas Jefferson would be unequipped to living in the modern world. We can handle it because we’ve built up dopamine resistance over time.

We need to be careful:

Corporations and bad actors like foreign informational warfare units don’t care about your wellbeing. They know how to, and do, take advantage of our hardwired mental pathways. They do this in a way that humanity has never experienced or been prepared for. The solution; continuously steele and resolve yourself to be strong in the face of mental traps. Identify the traps that we need to avoid, such as:

At least consciously keep the above to a minimum.

We need to learn and exercise self-control over our lives, to live upright, or we will be entirely subsumed in a lonely and destructive digital gulag. This goes for both men and women.

Life is difficult, get over escapism

Life is difficult, and too short not to work hard in an attempt to improve it. There’s so much cheap dopamine floating around, the only purpose of which is to numb us to the reality that meaningful things require hard work. Escapism is worse than a bandaid, it temporarily numbs us but doesn’t help. When we avoid reality, the important things are left undone, pushing us farther from our goals.

Escapism by browsing the internet is the same thing as doing drugs. The only difference is that screen time is easier to accept because it is a much newer and less studied phenomenon than drugs. Sometime in the future we’ll understand that giving someone untrained internet access is akin to giving them a brick of addictive harmful drugs.

Part of the problem is that we know the internet is necessary in the modern economy, but we haven’t been taught to draw distinctions between what is a good use of our time. If we’re not careful, we’ll easily be overcome by digital pied pipers.

Video Games

Video games are played almost exclusively by men. Developers and scientists have a thoroughly researched understanding of the biological reward systems that are hardwired in our brain. Our strongest neural pathways demand that we labor to produce food through farming, hunting, or professional work, all for the goal of creating a stable environment to facilitate the biologically dangerous task of reproduction. Videogames short circuit this drive.

We are wired to grind and achieve, and work hard at something to satisfy different elements of the hierarchy of needs. Video games short circuit this by duplicating the elements of work and success, but in an easy, idealized, and attractive way that is simpler than real life. The major problem is that literally nothing is accomplished. Knowledge of witchcraft, and arcane gaming systems add nothing to your life. Grown men should not be wasting their short life on an empty, pale, hollow imitation of a perfect life. Rather we should be learning new things or doing something productive. Even if it’s a hobby, a hobby is better than wasted leisure time. Sports are in a similar category.

Closing thoughts

Put aside your childish thoughts and embrace the adulthood requirements of focus, self-control, discipline, reality, and responsibility. Avoid ruminating on blackpills and other distractions.