Social media, like life, is full of successful, optimistic people encouraging us to never give up and to keep striving. They usually mean well like the good doc here:
Let's be really honest, though. For most goobermenschen it's just damage. Pace the myriad research articles about financial stressors and the damage that they do, and the massive handicap anyone with a lower IQ has which leads to such difficulties.
No one is doing anyone any favours by trying to sugar coat it. In fact: they're doing you a disfavour.
All this post from the good doc says is that if you're underpowered (cognitively and intellectually), you're going to suffer far more than those who aren't, and luck doesn't compensate anywhere near enough overall.
The more lucky you are with inheritance: money AND genetics (brains, skill, mental health, looks), the luckier you will be.
Suffering is only bad for most people most of the time, and so hedonic utilitarianism is the only right answer.
Bentham and Mill were geniuses ahead of their time.
The solution that presents itself as the ONLY true solution is: If you're not lucky genetically and financially then DO NOT REPRODUCE.
If you do you're being selfish, unkind, and cruel.
It's not nice to hear, but think of the benefits: you don't have to worry about your children constantly. Your financial burdens will be much less. Mainly: you won't have spawned and spun-up another suffering, cognitively and otherwise underpowered human to suffer and cause suffering their entire lives.
Added bonuses: You get to stick it to the man HARD. Capitalist vampires and deranged clergy who tell you to reproduce are the real demons. They want to use your children's suffering to heat their economy, fight their wars, build a consumer base, and/or keep their nasty theist cult in power by numbers.
Those fucking ghouls won't have any meat for their grinder supplied by you.
The alternative is that you can fix capitalism and fix human group and individual psychology, but as a scientistic positivist and optimist I can tell you that-even with AI in full swingularity-that's NEVER going to happen. (Have you met psychopath business people and Voltaire's scoundrels?)
So tell me. Who's being mean, rude, and cruel? Me? Or the nasty sociopaths and psychopaths who want to use up your kids and their lives for a range of vile, selfish, nasty applications without any concern for their suffering?
I am a professional, elite-trained philosopher and doing my PhD in neuropsychology. I can tell you one thing: The most valuable imperative is to question everything. Don't assume anything that business people and clergy tell you is true or that they are well-intentioned. Clerics (pastors, imams, muftis, priests, nuns, monks, rabbis, gurus... whatever) are all LIARS and TRUE NIHILISTS. They don't give a flying fig leaf what's true or real. They will bullshit-program you and your kids with any idiot fantasy narrative they have lying around to manipulate your psychology into line with their requirements.
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