Thread 24611621

How do you cope with the fact that there are so few people who make any tangible effort to be sincere and genuine, let alone actually be authentic? I've noticed in the past few years the problem has gotten noticeably worse. Ever since 2020 everyone has known that the majority of the population will turn against people who actually think about things when their NPC antenna is activated. Do they acknowledge this fact and seek sincere people who can demonstrate their reliability? No. They just continue hanging out with such NPC types and shoot they messenger who tries to warn them, because it's easier and more comfortable. The people in charge could push a button and 95% of humanity would instantly go into witch-hunt mode. How do you deal with it? Any book recs? Thanks for reading my blog post.

people are being people. I think that's great

>>24611621 (OP)
Yeah man, I try to be authentic all the time, it's so authentic

>>24611632
This but unironically. I don't smugly pride myself on it though. It's just fucking lonely and depressing.

>>24611621 (OP)
Here are some rulesto live bythat help me navigate idiots.(male perspective)
1. don't suffer fools.
2. trust no one
3. women only care about survival
4. occam's razor is usually correct
5. most people are stupid

>>24611798
Any tips for finding legitimate community and/or not being overwhelmed by the sorrow of being an utter stranger to the world?

>>24611798
>trust no one

Social media has compounded this problem. You can say anything, pretend to be anybody for years or whatever and just use people as dopamine recharge stations. You never have to worry about seeing their face. You're either too attatched or somebody else's mark. It's aloof and impossible to read and even if you can sense it you don't know why they wanted you to. All of these things are solved in the first hour of traditional communication but now nobody has the time for it.

>>24611621 (OP)
This is why we read books anon. What you seek has already been written.

>>24611621 (OP)
Read Praise of Folly by Erazmus. It won't necessarily help you navigate the npc world or cope with being surrounded by hostile drones, but might shed some light on their inner workings

>>24611639
Of course it’s lonely and depressing. You’re not putting any effort into making yourself more palpable to others. They just see a sad selfish asshole who doesn’t even have the wherewithal to fake a smile and say “good morning, how are you doing?”

Who would want to deal with that? Have fun being 100% authentic though, I’m sure it’ll work out for you eventually.

>>24611897
The inability to engage superficially is not the problem. The problem is that we have an entire culture of people who have no authentic community or depth in their interpersonal relationships. They will act friendly but the moment their honesty or friendship is put to the test by circumstance, it instantly buckles, revealing itself as having no substance. You can either ignore this emptiness and continue a fake relationship, or you can attempt to rectify it, in which case you'll usually be treated with resentment. Yeah, you're right I'd rather by go without the illusion of relationships than lie to myself and the people around me by pretending that superficial and dishonest people are friends.

>OP having the ego trip of his lifetime
Yeah, absolutely NO idea why people are inauthentic with you and decide to gatekeep themselves. It's truly a mystery man, lol. Must surely be because they are all retards with no inner world.

>>24611621 (OP)
>How do you cope with the fact that there are so few people who make any tangible effort to be sincere and genuine, let alone actually be authentic?

Realize that there isn't *really* such a thing as a *qualified person, that most everyone (with very, very, few exceptions) is an adult child, desperately lonely and scared of anything even remotely unfamiliar, typically doesn't possess the necessary life experience or trauma to do anything but 'pretend' to be an adult, and that you need to stop taking everything so seriously - especially yourself.

*There are experts though and I, (you), we, regularly put our lives in their hands, but experts in the exact way that you can typically ask a child what their favorite dinosaur is and they'll be able to uncharacteristically enunciate perfect scientific pronunciations & specifications of over a dozen animals and what geological period they're from, before going back to eating their own boogers.

>>24611798
6. Don't throw pearls before swine

>>24612075
7. Confess your sins to one another

>>24611839
Commune with the Creator within
t.platonist

>>24611621 (OP)
The fact is, people are selfish and put themselves above all. This isn't really a strange thing, it's what you would normally expect. The problem is that we're conditioned by our parents, social norms and media, to believe in virtues like altruism, self-sactifice, equality, and otherwise to treat others better than we treat ourselves, and of course to expect the same from them.

Once you start being aware of the fact that virtue is just a show, and that people have no qualms about being as selfish as possible as long as it doesn't tarnish their reputation/image, it becomes a lot simpler to understand them

There is no virtue, no kindness, no essence of humanity. Everyone is just trying to grab as much as they can without being called out. It's all one big lie everyone silently participates in, and hypocrisy is the name of the game. Anyone who truly believes in being a good, moral person is a fool waiting to be taken advantage of

nothing is more authentic than violence once people start getting hurt and dying you show shit is real
plus fighting is good exercise and anyone who exercises is more likely to be based

>>24611798
Occams Razor is why Marxism exists. It attempts to reduce all knowledge of causes to a single thing, much like all forms of reductionism, like idealism, historicism, and empiricism. It ignores the plurality and variety of human experiences.

>>24612231
>>Occams Razor is why Marxism exists.
Occam's razor is not why Marxism exists.
"William of Ockham (circa 1287–1347) was an English Franciscan friar and theologian, an influential medieval philosopher and a nominalist. His popular fame as a great logician rests chiefly on the maxim attributed to him and known as Occam's razor. The term razor refers to distinguishing between two hypotheses either by "shaving away" unnecessary assumptions or cutting apart two similar conclusions."

It attempts to reduce all knowledge of causes to a single thing, much like all forms of reductionism, like idealism, historicism, and empiricism. It ignores the plurality and variety of human experiences.
In my experience I apply it when I see or hear someone doing something stupid, to me there are no excuses or "pluralism" for stupidity, you are either stupid or you are not.
For example;
Take niggers setting themselves on fire for tik-toks, apply plurality and the variety of human existence to this and get back to me.
While Occam's razor is a useful heuristic, it is not infallible.
"Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate", i.e., "Plurality is not to be posited without necessity"

>>24611621 (OP)
You mean ironic.

>>24611897
being too sincere and straightforward is like walking on a ledge only as wide as your feet you're gonna have a tough time
you need space to walk comfortably

>>24612293
You just don't have the foresight I do. And its just not that but all attempts at reducing everything to single causes. Look, i write and meditate upon this i would wager that you just remain silent.

>>24612293
Necessity isn't really something that can be grasped either by human senses, putting yourself on the shoulders of Gods and trying to survey the universe here, i presume?

>>24612344
You obviously lack reading comprehension, so I'll apply Occam's razor to you right now. Your an idiot and I don't argue with idiots. Goodbye.

It's called being human sweetie you're sick too. We're all just empty costumes.

>>24611621 (OP)
i try to figure out how they do it because i hate both of my "personalities": when i am insincere, i am not insincere in a desirable way. when i am acting according to my "sincere" feelings, i am even worse. if i could master being inauthentic the way most frauds have, i could be a good, kindhearted, helpful, interesting, productive person. instead, i alternate between pretending to be a sycophantic smug bore, and in reality being an arrogant mean-spirited judgemental coward.