it’s not taught, it’s a cultural belief among most americans. they don’t understand that getting good at something requires practice.

No.

Most people think intelligence and mental skills in an innate trait, therefore this is no point in ‘exercising’ it.

most people who engage in mental and physical exercise are… wealthy. they have the leisure time and resources to do it.

most people… are not wealthy so they don’t have the time or resources to do this.

There are people who won’t socialize at all unless it involves alcohol

You don’t.

Just live your life. If you don’t want to be atomized, don’t be.

because you’re not lonely. you’re just a jerk.

if by brutal you mean fun and not full of corporate bullshit, yeah.

And to compare themselves against their friends.

Every girl in my high school was all over this when it came out. They all wanted to know who was prettier and friends stopped talking over it.

A lot of the guy were too. One of my stoner friends would agonize about his score.

The 2000s were a wild time.

No, it’s normal.

What is immature is to dwell on it and prevent you from moving on with your life.

Yes, and we now live in a victimhood culture where victimhood is a symbol of social power and people compete for victimhood status as a way to exploit others financially or otherwise.

I recently left a long time group because the entire group shifted into ‘victimhood’ mentality and the members would just complete at meetings about who was the most ‘oppressed’. It was a garden club… and people were like crying for sympathy about their plot getting slightly less sun than another plot.

meh. some people get offended and lash out for saying you like chicken.

defensive people think everything anyone else says or does is about them.

you can control yourself. you can’t control other people.

figure out who is causing it.

aka all the 1980s/1990s lit on alien abduction was based on this crap and using ‘hypnosis’ to ‘reveal’ it.

it makes for good story telling, which is why it became a staple of TV dramatizations.

i wish a lady would interrupt my narrative with her baseline trust.

yeah but i took logic and it turned me gay for a year.

"are you sure it’s that you just weren’t a hot enough kid? "

"how does it feel to know your parents/relatives didn’t find you sexually attractive enough to abuse you? "

the problem is the population conception of things must be portrayed in a super simplistic narrative. and lay people think that narrative is how things work because they have no experience of the actual processes that go on in highly specialized areas of knowledge and research and such processes are entirely opaque to them.

hence why a lot of people hate science and don’t trust it, because they literally can’t understand it. the science they learn in high school is nothing like the way in which contemporary science is done. and they feel like that is a failure of science itself, that it scientific inquiry can’t be a simple as a high school physics experiment than it’s ‘wrong’.

I used to teach philosophy and about 70% of my students just straight give up on learning it once they realize they won’t get ‘answers’ out of it. their POV is that it’s suppose to give them answers they can use to beat other ‘stupid’ people over the head with… they don’t understand that they are learning a process or a skill. like they come into philosophy 102 thinking they will ‘learn’ the ‘answer’ to the question of ethics of abortion, and get angry/upset that they come away ‘knowing’ less than they did before, and feel ‘cheated’.

average people don’t want to think, or challenge themselves intellectual. this want clear, definite, and simple answers from which to construct a worldview that is consistent and unchanging and therefore ‘correct’. and simplistic pop-psychology gives them that. so does religion. so does high school coursework in science.

ancient greeks come from man boy love and men getting pregnant.

checkmate feminists.

no.