The Plus Quotes
The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
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Greg Gutfeld1,098 ratings, 3.97 average rating, 143 reviews
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“Measure your worth by the people around you who know you, not by the people “out there” who don’t.”
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
“Social justice is a religion based on viewing the entire world through the filter of oppressor versus oppressed. And if you’re not on their team, that makes you the oppressor: primed for targeting and canceling. The backbone is punishment: you’ve victimized me, and now you must pay.”
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
“Family, community, and religion: like them or not, for centuries these were the saving concentric circles that protected you—which now social media has leapfrogged over and beyond; it’s the HOV lane to a new kind of hell.”
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
“If you think I can really annoy the crap out of people, imagine what I do to me. I cannot ever get away from me. I am stuck with me. And it can be as bad as you think.”
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
“The kids of well-off parents, bored and dulled by easy pleasure, find that hit of dopamine every time they cancel a nobody or, better, a non-nobody on Twitter.
It's entirely possible that the misery junkies fueling cancel culture are doing it because they have nothing else going on in their lives. And that "nothing else" could be beyond their control-- consequences of a society that paradoxically offers dwindling opportunities for fulfillment despite offering huge opportunities for distraction.”
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
It's entirely possible that the misery junkies fueling cancel culture are doing it because they have nothing else going on in their lives. And that "nothing else" could be beyond their control-- consequences of a society that paradoxically offers dwindling opportunities for fulfillment despite offering huge opportunities for distraction.”
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
“It could be that radical activism is more of a marker of a type of a bitter, disturbed person, than the noble choice of an idealistic person looking out for the good of all people. In short, the concentric circles of family, religion, and community are rejected; as the SJW leapfrogs over all of them to the external gratification of public aggression and response.”
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
“We’ve been lunching on a lie since high school. The lie was this: those wishing to take away your freedom would come in the form of some massive monolithic, soulless government. We had to worry about faceless bureaucrats and faceless, armed mobs with mysterious insignias busting our doors in the dead of night, scooping us out of our beds, where we’re vanned to reeducation camps somewhere underground, a place with no internet, no cable, no sushi—not unlike certain parts of New Jersey. Which would be fine with me, because I hate sushi. But the “no internet thing” would be a problem. Because I love cat videos.”
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
“Once you see family or community as some sort of lie told to you by “the man,” all that’s left is political tribalism.”
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
“Conspiracies. If you’ve ever fallen into an unintentional conversation with a stranger over chemtrails, or the Illuminati, or worse, with a Holocaust denier, you realize that despite the person being otherwise law-abiding, there is no reasoning with them over these mental potholes.”
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help