The Thing About Phoning It In
Showing up is 80% of life.
To begin to view yourself accurately, think of the most competent person you’ve ever met. Now empathize with their experience of you. How do you measure up? Would they be proud of the standards you keep? Would they be satisfied with your progress? Do you exhibit a “grind” they would appreciate?
If not, what kind of frustration would they experience at being saddled with your lack of effort?
Think of a man who’s led a tremendously productive life but he’s struck down by a mystery illness that robs him of his sleep - his vitality engine (wink, wink, nod nod).
He’s so accustomed to traction but then it’s gone.
What kind of life is that for him?
If you have crud levels of effort and he has to live within those bounds, he would feel tremendously oppressed. He would resent these arbitrary, irrational limits. He would feel caged. He would gnash his teeth to try and get loose somehow. But you’d be there, just keeping a foot stamped down on his tail. He’s a wild squirrel and you’re keeping him pinned. He wants to go and let er’ rip but you’re there with your big fat stupid foot just breathing in fatty fat boy air.
There’s something just so heavy about people who phone it in.
They’re taking liberties.
Sometimes I think of the absurdity of passport bros.
This kind of behavior is just so wildly inappropriate, gross, and pathetic that it boggles the mind how many legions of European men normalize it.
I go back and forth on the bully question and this instance, I say we need more bullies.
Allow me to proceed.
You were born with a genetic jackpot of potentiality and you’re just going and slumming it because your attitude got jacked up by going through the public schools and being on the Internet alone for too long with your own worst tendencies.
You couldn’t discipline yourself to get your teeth straightened.
You couldn’t be bothered to read a book every other week in order to become a literate person.
You had to go National Geographic mode because your brain is too fried to be interested in science or math or philosophy.
I always chuckle at this delightful mental sandwich Stefan Molyneux once served up about Whitey going and getting in these 1st World/3rd World mixed marriages: White liberal women would be jealous of the anticommunist streak of the resulting children. It’s one of the most Molyneux-finger-trap, hyper-thought-out narrow scope gotchas I’ve ever heard. I’ve mentioned it before and rebutted it.
You know you have to live with the 3rd worlder and share her company beyond just when her downstairs feels like a young teenager’s, right? I am trying to keep that as PG-13 as possible but we all know that’s 80% why these men do it. Couldn’t get action in high school. You know you’re inheriting a genetic defect-challenged lower IQ person from a poisoned environment, right? There are no environmental standards in these places. They don’t test their drinking water. They wouldn’t even know where to start.
People are programming. Let’s not pretend that highly self-knowledgeable men are rushing off to deliberately create anticommunists or something like this. The vast majority of 1st World/3rd World pairings feature a White man who let himself go, got too lonely, and bombed out into the slums somewhere.
White women are just so mean!
Never mind that your forefathers were making babies before the Ruskies poured in and slaughtered every one.
Never mind that your forefathers slammed and banged their way to a future IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BLACK PLAGUE.
Grow a spine.
The theme here is that low effort is incredibly burdensome on people who are high effort if we have to share commons. This is why billionaires want to abscond and get as far away as possible from the great rabble.
Get lazy enough and you lose your humanity.
I’ve never seen this said anywhere ever.
As a competent, high effort person, I want to highlight this line of thinking. It’s a line of thinking that upholds the great entrepreneurs, innovators, artists, and philosophers. Men who built thought upon thought. Men who systemized their thinking. Men who integrated knowledge into systems. Men who, through their great effort, have pulled us into new vistas of possibility.
I try to not have contempt for the lazy. I try to have understanding, empathy, a willingness to help but…
I also do feel a need for separation on a regular basis.
How does it not drive you completely nuts to lose your edge for even a single day?
Stay hungry.
Socialism is defined as State policy of wealth redistribution.
Get too close to someone who phones it in and they will suck you down into their lazy excuse-making - no government needed. Personality is contagious. Sometimes it is better to be at odds with the entire world to pursue excellence than to sit around, reacting to things.
Sure, the bar is being raised for family formation. Life is more expensive than ever before. Boomers just keep their fat asses parked on overpriced real estate and the whole economy is waiting for these miserable shits to pass on. And when they do, they’ll pass it all on to private equity and corporations right next to the Fed Reserve money printer - like Blackrock. These useless demons.
The bar goes higher. So get a running start! Move! Move your butt. Rip and tear at the bootheel on your tail. Make them bleed for what they do to you.
It’s okay to feel tremendous anger at the men in the environment who take their liberties.
Fuck em’.
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