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Self improvement is repeated like a mantra nowadays. They always tell everyone that they can always improve themselves. It's a complete tautology: "You should improve yourself because then you improve yourself!" For what? If you ask them that question they will (most of the time) become very angry with you because they cannot argue in favour of their own points without spewing out tautologies - people get very angry when their beliefs are questioned. The thing is that self-improvement (as defined by them) is a sisyphean task, something you repeat for all eternity without ever making a difference or coming to a definite conclusion.
Furthermore, they get extremely angry whenever you tell them that their ideas/suggestions didn't work for you. "You just didn't believe hard enough in them!" - the funny moment comes when you realize that they (most of the time) look down on religious people or people who believe in alternative medicine like homeopathy for making the same argument but whenever they defend their ideas (like therapy/self-improvement) they use exactly the same argument. It's not about any facts, it's about beliefs (like in all arguments between people).
The popularity of the idea of self improvement ultimately stems from the absurd idea that all people are born equal. This is definetely not true. Intelligence and most physical stuff is (mostly) based on genetics and not on concious decisions; even stuff like autism/schizophrenia has a huge hereditary component. Not all people are born with the same prerequisites and for some of them no amount of self-improvement can ever overcome the barriers that were thrown in their way by nature - if you cannot compete with others you will always find it out sooner or later. So why do you refuse to be honest with it?
Self-improvement is ultimately an insult towards unfortunates. Just imagine telling a mentally-disabled child that he should just study harder and then he could have a chance in a debate against Einstein or telling a cripple that he just has to do some more reps in order to be able to compete with a strongman. Just fucking lol, imagine a millionaire telling a homeless person that if he worked harder the same success would have come to him - the funny thing is that soyciety realizes the slandering/contemptous undertone in the last example (because it's about money, an issue most people can relate to) but yells the same bullshit at you when it comes to biological stuff.
Self-improvement is a complete lie. Normalfag listen up: As an average person you have no idea of the hardships others face, of course you had some work to do in school/university due to your mediocre intelligence, had some work to do with relationships/social success due to your mediocre looks and neurotypicality and also had some work to do in sports because of your average physique and no disabilities, but that doesn't mean that the tasks less fortunate people face are even remotely comparable to yours when it comes to difficulty/prospects of success. Self-improvement is the lie that keeps them asleep at night and makes them look down on others because they see the differences between them and "losers" as a result of work ethics and not as the result of sheer stochastics; they win in a rigged game and that's why they deem it as fair.
Furthermore, they get extremely angry whenever you tell them that their ideas/suggestions didn't work for you. "You just didn't believe hard enough in them!" - the funny moment comes when you realize that they (most of the time) look down on religious people or people who believe in alternative medicine like homeopathy for making the same argument but whenever they defend their ideas (like therapy/self-improvement) they use exactly the same argument. It's not about any facts, it's about beliefs (like in all arguments between people).
The popularity of the idea of self improvement ultimately stems from the absurd idea that all people are born equal. This is definetely not true. Intelligence and most physical stuff is (mostly) based on genetics and not on concious decisions; even stuff like autism/schizophrenia has a huge hereditary component. Not all people are born with the same prerequisites and for some of them no amount of self-improvement can ever overcome the barriers that were thrown in their way by nature - if you cannot compete with others you will always find it out sooner or later. So why do you refuse to be honest with it?
Self-improvement is ultimately an insult towards unfortunates. Just imagine telling a mentally-disabled child that he should just study harder and then he could have a chance in a debate against Einstein or telling a cripple that he just has to do some more reps in order to be able to compete with a strongman. Just fucking lol, imagine a millionaire telling a homeless person that if he worked harder the same success would have come to him - the funny thing is that soyciety realizes the slandering/contemptous undertone in the last example (because it's about money, an issue most people can relate to) but yells the same bullshit at you when it comes to biological stuff.
Self-improvement is a complete lie. Normalfag listen up: As an average person you have no idea of the hardships others face, of course you had some work to do in school/university due to your mediocre intelligence, had some work to do with relationships/social success due to your mediocre looks and neurotypicality and also had some work to do in sports because of your average physique and no disabilities, but that doesn't mean that the tasks less fortunate people face are even remotely comparable to yours when it comes to difficulty/prospects of success. Self-improvement is the lie that keeps them asleep at night and makes them look down on others because they see the differences between them and "losers" as a result of work ethics and not as the result of sheer stochastics; they win in a rigged game and that's why they deem it as fair.
