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And we can only be as great as the rest of society allows us to be.
average people do not appreciate their lives as much and thus settle for mediocrity, thereby lessening the experience for everyone.
The vast majority of people are neither interested in, nor want to achieve greatness. The vast majority of people do not want to lead different or unique lives. They are perfectly content utterly wasting their time on a mediocre life, with a mediocre education, with a mediocre career, on a mediocre couch, watching a mediocre sitcom.
Criticize her as you may, Oprah is a genius because she realized people would rather feel good than actually achieve good in their lives. And thus, she went out and told millions of women for over 20 years what they WANTED to hear, not what they NEEDED to hear.
Your entire employment environment is driven by everybody’s insistence you place feelings and emotions over reality and truth.
It’s just the facts of life that biology is the single largest force in the human psyche and friends are inevitably trumped by sex, love, and pair-bonding with the opposite sex. You may not like this, but it is a fact you do not control.
Thankfully the future is practically guaranteed to be an Idiocracy.
We’ve been genetically programmed for 2 million years to solve problems and advance. And it is so rare in the entirety of the human experience not to have problems that our brains simply don’t know how to deal with it. In the words of Agent Smith from “Matrix,” “Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings
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in the long run smarter people more quickly assess reality, bending it to their will, capitalizing on it, improving and advancing their lives.
there is no solution because there is no problem.
you can never solve the problem that doesn’t exist. You can only treat it.
next to breathing, breeding is the most common thing humans do.
