It speaks volumes you were so incensed by my post from a couple of pages back that you actually felt compelled to respond with this, did you?
Ah, again, assumptions after assumptions. It speaks volumes only to you because you're tone-deaf.
Maybe, since I have successfully cured my hairloss, I don't frequent this place any more. ( You can check my post history since that seems to be your favourite point of reference). See, again you're warping reality to suit your baseless assumptions. The delightful hypocrisy of assuming your words have this much impact and then going on to lecture me about narcissism and one-upmanship.
It’s not arrogance. It’s speaking from basic social experience and actually living out in the real world. Most normal people can tell if someone is socially adjusted and normal just by reading their posts and or what kind of strange beliefs they have or don’t.
Indeed, it's not arrogance, it is arrogant stupidity. You know nothing about the people you have fleeting contact with in real life, only that they conform to the most basic social conventions. You know even less about people online. Maybe they are trolling, maybe they're playing another role/persona, or are letting off steam about topics they can't rant about irl. But no, anyone who doesn't agree with a certain view is a socially unaware incel. And you know this because they don't conform to some arbitrary social standard that has zero relevance online.
(By the by, the most dangerously disturbed people ( Cluster B personality disorders) know how to put on the perfect mask, sometimes much better than 'normal' people. Contemplate that before you confuse being neurotypical with being socially adjusted)
You seem to have a knack for setting up strawmen. There’s a big gulf between having reasonable goals and being ambitious, and having delusions of grandeur and aiming for the perfect life for really no other reason than oneuppmanship. One is within the bounds of normal and perfectly reasonable. The other is outlandish, childish, and has hints of narcissism. We all have flaws. Part of growing up and becoming a respectable adult is accepting those flaws and that it is perfectly acceptable and healthy to be imperfect, and that goes for yourself and other people.
Nah. We simply have varying views on what adulthood entails. Fair enough. It's a highly subjective concept . But I'm not the one who started patronizing people with truisms though.
Either way, to me it's about steadily challenging your limits untill you find one you cannot break through; then keeping up that disciplined intensity to stabilise yourself on the highest possible level of being. Yes, I'm aware this may seem overly idealistic and exhaustive to some.
But to, once again, assume it's about one-upmanship and not self-actualization says more about you than it does about me. Externalisation, internalisation.
Part of the solution is banning social media or atleast limiting it.
Social circles are still the best way to meet a GF.
Maybe, but social media, to me, seems more like a symptom than a cause. And I don't think we'll ever be able to convince people to abandon their little shrines of narcissism.
I think we can only hope for chaos and a societal and cultural tabula rasa so we can start over again.
