This is why many of them have anime-like facial expressions. An excess of social activity makes *you* feel like there's something you're missing out on
Invariably, on further examination, you'll find that there's nothing of value beneath the surface. All social life is like this
Titania (Andrew Doyle) McGrifter is a good example of this.
You're attracted to it at first because of the flurry of activity that surrounds it. It's a source of social excitement, but after a while you realise that it's a repetitive, self-serving Twitter account.
To repeat: all social life is like this.
There is a collective ambition of creating a flurry of activity, because this creates a generic buzz in which you no longer have to be serious and self-denying (which is what's really required for God's will to prevail on Earth).
This is the will-to-life, afraid of being abandoned and out in the cold. The basis of social behaviour.
Warm-blooded animals snuggle up and engage in playful conviviality as a means of "bonding", i.e. protecting themselves against coldness and death.
Humans still feel this fear, and women especially. This is why they need cuddles. There is this perpetual fear of being left behind.
When they finally satisfy themselves in this regard, it feels empty and without purpose, just like eating food when you're not hungry.
When they pursue it too much, they feel ashamed and guilty (like you do when eating too much food). They worry that they seem like an excessive burden on the group.
Non-human animals don't get this, because they are honest when a member of the group is annoying them.
In today's world, this has reached an insane extent. You are not allowed to judge anyone. There is no predation on the social plane. You are encouraged to be as stupid as you like, because clownish behaviour benefits the capitalist classes. They want you to degrade yourself.
The more clownish and fevered the behaviour, the more people gravitate towards it (esp. in their younger naive years). This is profitable for the capitalist classes, even though it makes young people ashamed, anxious and depressed (which is blamed on traditional norms of shame).
"The only thing in the way of paradise is tradition! Stop shaming people and let them live to the utmost!"
This is how the dominant ideology of our time views things. The capitalists think they're liberators, and that tradition is stubbornly opposed to human happiness.
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Entropy and desire have a close affinity. In fact, if we replace the term "desire" with "tendency" (or "inclination"), we will quickly notice that these concepts or more or less identical.
Imagine you are walking a cliff edge, and then you look down.
The mere fact that falling down the prescribed kinetic route seems so eminently possible is actually what draws you into falling. This is also why the thought of failure (e.g. during a speech) inclines you toward it.
The route which intuitively seems most possible is the route which you *tend* toward.
The difference between the tendency to fall off a cliff and the tendency to be immoral is that the former has an obvious dead-end, whereas the latter doesn't obviously pose a dead-end.
Nietzsche contemptuously regarded Christianity as Platonism for the masses.
I say instead: look at how naturally and intuitively this man (who underwent an NDE) describes Platonism. It's a little crude, but for that reason rings of sincerity.
Here is a beautiful exposition of the essential feeling of *confinement* in the material world.
She has not read a word of my philosophy, and yet, from her very real experience of the other side, explains it with perfect naivety much more vividly than my philosophy does.
I love these interviews. They're as refreshing to me as reading Schopenhauer.
These are normal people who, by accident, keep giving proof of my hard thought-out philosophy, which was often provoked by my looking at a wall or something, frustrated with the dullness of matter.
These are some of the most precious and enlightening interviews ever given, but our disgustingly philistine world refuses to take them seriously.
People insist on cash value in this world, not insights into the next.
...All cells are electrically charged, i.e. have ionic imbalance; it's just that nerve cells have a more expansive and ordered domain.)
Because of this excess of sensibility (i.e. nerves), we are axiomatically inclined to check for problems even when they aren't near.
Alcohol and opiates appeal to humans because they depress the central nervous system, and bring you to the present moment. A high enough dose will reduce you to mere vegetative function, and maybe even less than that.
Being in the present eliminates desire, and is thus pleasant.
This makes you lose control of yourself, but this very outsourcing is what makes it pleasant. You can just swing about without your usual powers of discernment.
This is why a pleb likes to mix in crowds. He can cosy up within it, and abandon his powers of discernment.
Alcohol and crowd mentality is therefore a perfect marriage.
It's not just alcohol and drug addictions I'm describing, though. All addictions are a function of the will-to-life (the will-to-life is the sovereign addiction, the engine of them all).
If, instead of that, you had built up potential without view to a kinetic outcome, you would not notice either way.
What makes you feel shame is not the build-up of potential, but the fact that you were *looking for the kinetic outcome*.
You feel ashamed of your lack of naivety. The fact that you checked afterwards makes you feel enslaved. If someone caught you looking, you would be embarrassed that you demonstrate that you care too much about what others think.