Reality, what a concept!

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Reality vs Fantasy.- Mgtow Messenger

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

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I had a long conversation with my mother last night where I finally confronted her about how impossible it is to discuss reality when you are constantly inserting fantasy into it.  I was responding to her usual platitude of “there is always a solution.”  I had been trying to tell her about how terrible my ex-wife was being about some custody/support issues, and she tried to smooth things over with fake wisdom that was really just intended to make me calm down so I didn’t disturb her fantasy that life was “good”

The part about switching from getting dopamine from fantasy to getting dopamine from accomplishing goals, though, I (and here, I’m injecting reality) see as a bit more escapism. Dopamine is good stuff, but I’ve been chasing it so long, in so many forms, that I see dopamine itself as another “fantasy” in that it helps you forget, for a time, life without it.  What’s the difference between accomplishing a goal to get dopamine, and injecting the stuff into your arm?  You can say “but I’m ACCOMPLISHING GOALS.”  But if the goals weren’t worth accomplishing BEFORE the dopamine opportunity, why would you accomplish those goals just to get dopamine?

I’m being nihilistic here — I am not offering an alternative.  But today, as I was getting breakfast, I looked at my city skyline, with several impressive skyscrapers, and thought “those f~~~ing things were built by people trying to stay busy so they didn’t have to think about their own death/misery/loneliness.”

All of human culture/life/civilization is like the slime-trail of a snail — we drag ourselves forward, leaving chunks of ourselves behind as evidence that we were here.  But in the end, we either die HERE, or OVER THERE, and the only difference is the length of our slime trail.

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