I don’t want this post to come off any more anti-social than it already is, but I find that life is really only enjoyable if its strictly private and if one’s consciousness is not routinely polluted by the misfortune of others/their entrenching ideas. That by and large, I look at the world and notice that most forms of tragedy are intimately related to people being wrapped up into the social nexus of society, and that this is conventionally inescapable without excessive wealth or a kind of masculine apathy about ones material conditions(ascetic renunciation and intentional hermitage).
Do any of you feel that you gain almost nothing outside of something like oxytocin at the physiological level from being involved with peoples lives? That, without any obligation towards parents/friends/monetary concerns, that your interest in being involved in any of this is totally neutered?
It seems to me that all that there is to do in the current world order and even in history was to gather enough power/material affluence to prevent an enemy culture or people from occupying that same position. Competition and tragedy is intrinsic to life and I have no liberal ambitions to improve it, in that way living a worldly life seems completely dull and without any desirable allure. It seems to me that all that one can really do is minimize their interactions with society and monetary concerns, but in some senses wealth and security requires “pro-social” attitudes that I feel are instrumental and completely disingenuous. If I could press a button and be set for a life that is already minimal or reductive in its material content, on the condition I’d never have to engage others again, I think it would be an obvious choice.
What about yourself?
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