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Schizoid personality: YouTube videos and comments
There is an evolutionary purpose, but it is in the past, not the future. In tribal days your culture would have only a couple hundred people in it, so one schizoid, who sees the culture from the outside can change it. Nowadays we have a global culture, and those who would change it are labeled âdisorderedâ. In the past the reclusive schizoid would be the shaman or the wise hermit, now weâre just seen as crazy recluses. Read the full page
Links about the concept of Wahnstimmung. Here, too, beyond the context of schizophrenia, in the sense of a state of dissociation and free-floating anxiety. Continue reading
About the âhard problemâ of consciousness. Read the full page
Clinical psychology info on schizoid personality disorder
Technical clinical psychology info on SzPD. Read the full page
https://www.reddit.com/r/Schizoid/comments/1n739i1/comment/nc4w1c2/[đĄ]
r/Schizoid, u/White_Wolf_11
To subject someone to a romantic relationship with me would be immoral.
Takes on the SzPD + AvPD diagnosis
https://www.reddit.com/r/Schizoid/comments/1mquasr/comorbid_avpd/[đĄ]
r/Schizoid, u/UtahJohnnyMontana
My completely amateur take is that schizoid is avoidance squared. It is avoidance of avoidance. It is uncomfortable feeling all those things that cause avoidance. Why avoid the things that cause uncomfortable feelings when you can avoid feeling anything at all? And then the veil comes down and you are schizoid. It seems like this happens early for some, late for others, and sometimes not at all, but if you look back far enough, there was usually a time when a schizoid was a pretty sensitive and avoidant looking person.
u/PjeseQ
Didnât pursue official diagnosis, but itâs quite probable that I used to be avoidant in my teens vs schizoid now. As far as I can remember, avoidant traits were much worse to deal with. Itâs much easier to be just indifferent towards interpersonal contact rather than anxious about it.
There is also this conspiracy theory circling around that a burned out AvPD turns into SPD eventually. I think it might be true to some extent.
https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/06/the-catastrophe-of-birth.html[đĄ] Continue reading
The Suffering of the Everyday Banalities of Life
r/Pessimism, u/forestofdoom2022 Continue reading
I donât want to play the game of life
The most frustrating part is that there doesnât really seem to be a real solution for this problem because every piece of advice people usually give is like, self-contained within the parameters of life if that makes sense, like every piece of advice people give still involves having to participate in life. Read the full page
Jetta â An autistic kid talks about the universe and the end of time
Chris: If you could share one message with the whole entire world, what would you say?
Jetta: The universe is about the end.
Chris: Why do you want people to know that?
Jetta: Because someday it will end in our face. Read the full page
u/defectivedisabled, r/Pessimism
Suffering when seen as a metaphysical force is just like a perpetual machine. It runs on the fuel that is suffering and generates suffering as the byproduct, which it then uses to fuel itself further and continue the cycle. There maybe some peak and trough in the amount of suffering but suffering can never be fully eradicated. Suffering is self sustaining and is basically like a pantheist âGodâ. We are all part of it and it and it only exists through our suffering. Suffering is the essence of life, it is the reason for everything we do what we do. Suffering makes us perform actions to relief itself but would then create new forms of suffering as a result. A lion kills and eat a zebra so it may stay alive and procreate to further perpetuate this cycle in an ever increasing scale until the zebra population collapses and the lion population collapses as well. This cycle would then start afresh, it is an endless cycle with no end in sight.
We are all parts that made up of this âGodâ and it is our suffering that gives âlifeâ to it. What this means for we is that we are created to suffer and perpetuate suffering. All for the manifestation of this âGodâ into the world. You can only do what is allowed within the limits of being a cog in this ungodly machine and any attempts to fight against the will of this âGodâ is futile. An end to this metaphysical force is nothing to grieve for indeed.
Why do we want to create an ASI
Perhaps, at least in part, the quest to create an artificial consciousness is part of a longing that comes from the human unconscious. We long for entering into communion with other minds different from our own. We do not want to suffer alone in a high degree of knowledge and for this we are willing to create an artificial consciousness. The same impulse may serve as the basis for those who seek to find other intelligent consciousnesses in the stars, through the discovery of intelligent alien life.
Fernando Olszewski, https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/01/the-mistake-of-rokos-basilisk.html[đĄ]
And what do those philosophers who oppose our resenting life propose? The forging of new myths such as the ĂŒbermensch or the deification of human history. However, changing gods wonât make a difference, just as returning to medieval or ancient times wonât make a difference. Eventually, these new myths will die, too, because some of us are intelligent enough to see through them. Read the full page
r/Schizoid, u/Alarmed_Painting_240
need to wipe, destroy, and start over.
That sort of opposition to being or becoming anything, especially in a social or self-image way, seems to me almost the essential schizoid trait. Sometimes it starts early, sometimes it develops slowly over time. Online or real life contacts, they might end up with similar fates. The moment we decide that itâs not who we are. But itâs not like we know what else weâd be. Not that, I suppose. Or strong associations with negative stuff occurs, like a bad smell.
It can be kind of interesting to see this opposition in so many ways looking back. Not always in obvious ways. Itâs not like schizoids only find themselves to be empty or (desiring) nothing, it can be just as well the active undoing of whatever is forming. To start existing even in the most superfluous ways, becomes terrible, boring or just too fake.
SzPD â Playing life in hard mode
Reply to âWhy is being schizoid bad?â:
r/Schizoid, u/melonpathy
I think being schizoid is like playing life in hard mode. You donât belong but you have to play along. Itâs tiresome to have to just observe human life, not being able to really participate, itâs like being forced to watch someone eat a delicious looking cake and not getting to taste it, ever. And despite not maybe always feeling like it, schizoids are human too. Humans are hard-wired to be social animals, it is in our genetics. Whether you enjoy socializing or not, it is good for your cognitive and even physical health.
And emotions are what motivates all action, whether you realize it or not. Thatâs the very purpose why we evolved to have emotions, to motivate us so we would survive. Avolition and anhedonia are destructive, they are a disturbance in the human drive to do things that are important, basically they hinder your ability to lead a good life. You also need motivation to do stuff like graduate and hold a job, which are needed for getting money, without which you cannot get insurances or anything else. Schizoids have the lowest life success rate of all personality disorders.
But of course some are more high functioning than others, basically some people here have the disorder and some have the personality type, I think. You have a personality disorder only when it causes suffering for you. If someone doesnât mind their schizoid traits and they are able to function fairly well then itâs not a personality disorder but a personality style, and Iâm speaking of the former here.
r/Schizoid, u/Concrete_Grapes
Schizoids are somewhat in a unique place as far as personality disorders go. We are inward facing, self-validating, self-reliant (on thinking through things, not always financially or housing), etc.
So, we frame the world, usually, as if everyone else is or should be this as well. To us, this is âthe normââand we literally cannot gain something good, or new, from interactions. We donât need to interact with someone to validate an experience, or âmove onâ from some emotional attachment or slight.
However, normal people do not exist like this at all. Ever. Not even a little. Not for even a handful of minutes a year.
They are always outward facing in searching for validation. They feel they have no value, unless itâs measured by, or against someone else. Their emotions literally exist only as a function of social validation, or as an attachment to others. If they are mad, they are mad at someone. If theyâre sad, they need to process it with others, and reference stability and coping mechanism off the âotherâ⊠they cannot do this on their own.
Thatâs why virtually everyone that goes to therapy, goes to deal with their emotions, and the severe control emotions have over their actions.
Thatâs why a schizoid often gets nothing from most therapists, itâs not emotions for us, weâre stuck internally, conscious, and intellectualizing emotions away if they do happen, or forcing them to appear when we lack them. Hyper-aware of this, usually.
Other. People. Never. Do.
So theyâre reaching out to process and connectâtheyâre unfulfilled, or some door isnât closed, and they feel an internal emotional sense that they âmustââsome how, reference off you to complete the task.
To you, thatâs nonsense.
I mean, Iâm saying it in an extreme way, and one can argue itâs not always like thisâand itâs not.
But go read what âmindfulnessâ isâthe thing where people struggle to do it even a few minutes a day, after months of trying, on purpose, and tell meâif, to you, that sounds like horse shit, because itâs describing a state youâre in 99 percent of the time as default.
Thatâs what I mean.
https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/09/excess-lucidity.html[đĄ] Continue reading
God handed me the fruits of his creation, then took my taste.
Reddit, u/Illustrious-Back-944 talking about anhedonia
Those who stretches old video games into widescreen.
There should be a public execution for each one of those streamers/youtubers.
Can a pessimist have hope?
r/Pessimism, u/ajaxinsanity
Hope is expectation coupled with fear that something will not work out. As such it is almost the opposite of pessimism. Pessimism is about abandoning hope and expecting the worst, which is often closer to the truth.
Hopium is very bad for you in general because itâs unstable, depends on imagination and ambition, therefore making you anxious. Be realistic and apply reason, not hope.
r/Pessimism, u/SIGPrime
The risks we take during life to ultimately not suffer are due to the original imposition done upon us in birth. Whoever you want to blame, be it your parents, ancestors, or god, someone created you into a life where you must impose to limit suffering.
I suppose one could argue that being a parent could also be necessary to achieve happiness in many cases, but this is a Ponzi scheme sort of arrangement.
u/homebrandusername, r/Pessimism Continue reading
https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/05/essay-about-giving-up.html[đĄ] Continue reading
Do you think schizoid can be âfixedâ?
u/Fun_Researcher4035, r/Schizoid Continue reading
I think I have postpartum depression. It started right after I was born.
From the internet.
Treading water
u/Critical-Sense-1539, r/Pessimism
I get a similar sentiment whenever I come across popular âself-improvementâ content. Iâve never bought any promises that I could ever better my life or progress in any real sense, for no matter what I achieve, I will always be striving. I donât get inspired whenever I see someone struggle really hard for wealth, influence, a big muscly body, a romantic relationship, or some other insipid marker of success.
I see a futility in these attmepts to attain âfulfilmentâ or the âgood lifeâ, a bit like the futility of treading water. You swing your arms and kick your legs to stay afloat, just so youâre able to breathe for a moment longer. However, no matter how hard you try, youâre not going to get out of the water. Youâre always sinking so to stay above water, you have to expend effort over and over and over again until youâve got none left to expend.
I see all pursuits for fulfilment in this sort of image; we are always lacking something. Living to try and satisfy all your desires is a game that you can only ever lose because for every desire that one satisfies, another shall show up in its place. Now, realizing this probably wonât fix the pain associated with not achieving your desires but it might help alleviate feelings of self-hatred or guilt for having a âbad lifeâ. After all, thereâs no need to feel bad about yourself for losing a game that was impossible to win all along.
u/Kunigunde9467, r/Pessimism Continue reading
Have you ever had a crushingly agonizing crush?
r/Schizoid, u/iwalkinthemoonlight Continue reading
(EN Wikipedia) Depressive realism[đĄ] Continue reading
Most people accept work and take it for granted, like the air we breath
Just try it. Say «All work sucks» to someone. See how people contort themselves philosophically to defend this âstrivingâ belief system. Read the full page
On defeatism
r/Pessimism, u/defectivedisabled
Defeatism is just a term society use to gaslight people into conforming with social expectations. You could very well be considered a defeatist in a capitalist society by embracing minimalism. There is no such thing as a defeatist in absolute terms. This term solely exist to shame and guilt trap people to fall in line with what is expected of them. It is also a relativistic term that requires a specific setting for the term to have a meaning. You might be considered a defeatist in capitalistic society by giving up on the rat race and becoming a minimalist. But on the other hand, you are an âoptimistâ within the minimalist community.
There is no such thing as âgive upâ. Even embracing nothingness requires effort. Activities that induces a sense of liberation such as meditation actually requires putting effort to work. Therefore, it is nothing but gaslighting to say one is a defeatist when one decide to go on a path of liberation rather than participate in the rat race. The word defeatism is designed to keep people trapped in a cycle of endless suffering. It is done by holding onto the idea that there is some kind of reward waiting for them at the end when they eventually âwinâ at whatever they are doing.
Andrew McIntosh â On the Drive Towards Death and the Drive Away From Death (Ineffectual Whinging)
Just throwing a hodge podge of ideas Iâve read about and find interesting together in the hopes of coming up with a synthesis that doesnât mean much in the end anyway. Itâs not like I believe there are such things as âDeath Drivesâ and âthe Willâ and all that, theyâre more metaphorical for what is probably more mundane, neurobiological stuff going on in our stupid brains. Read the full page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffering_risks[đĄ] Continue reading
https://www.madinamerica.com/tag/chemical-imbalance-hoax/[đĄ] Continue reading
Applying âthatâs subjective thoâ to that rings very, very hollow. To criticise them, you have to take the claims apart; [âŠ] Read the full page
We are daily slaves to the mitigation of suffering
What can even be done? Happy or sad, you still need to eat, youâre still aging, and youâre still going to die. Read the full page
r/Pessimism, u/Robotoro23
This is how people today justify suffering of people when industrial revolution began, âit was worth it because we now have a fridge, medicine and technology.
This is how now people are justifying suffering of people today, âitâs worth it because we will reduce even more suffering with additional technology
The problem with that line of thought is that it presupposes an end to our misery, that technology will bring salvation and create Utopia.
What those same people donât get is that suffering is fundamentally ontological to humans and everything around us.
Hypothetically even if we managed to cure every disease, every mental health âproblemâ, everything being automated, upload our consciousness to machines etcâŠ
After all of that, the questions people very like to ignore is this: what after that?
A sterilized society devoid of pain will only bring boredom and boredom eventually turns into suffering and we are back to square one: how to reach salvation of existence?
Volunteering is the way, kek. Read the full page
Why is living a constant torture?
Rant on Reddit, with good comments. Read the full page
r/Pessimism, u/Robotoro23
People ultimately read books, play video games, watch fiction etc⊠Because they suffer. They engross themselves as a fictional spectator to forget about their personal life predicament thus unawarely denying Will to Life and affirming non existence periodically to lessen their suffering.
Andrew McIntosh â Earth of the Scum (Ineffectual Whinging)
Isnât it time we had World War Three? Read the full page
r/Pessimism, u/HumanAfterAll777
I think striving for happiness is like chasing the dragon
[âŠ] When I was truly happy was when I was a child. When I was ignorant of the world and what horrors it contained. Something you can never go back to. [âŠ]
r/Pessimism, u/GloomInstance
Thereâs a moment when the intelligent empath, perhaps born with a melancholic bent, realises they are stuck in a kind of mortal reality show of endless suffering.
They look out at the sunset over a peaceful lake, only to see a pelican swoop down and grab up a fish, swallowing the fish whole as it visibly flaps around, trying to resist its awful fate.
Then the thinking empath reflects on how cruel and unfair the natural state of things is, and that they themselves are stuck inside the cruelty fishbowl and will most likely suffer their own grizzly decline.
I remember as a child of eight or nine years old, sitting in the bathtub weeping at how much suffering the world contains, and how little protection against it we have. It must have been when my first grasp on death and the nature of things occurred.
r/Pessimism, u/scorqio
One must know that things also become dull. Stale.
What i think will make me happy today, may not have that same impact next week.
Andrew McIntosh â The Point of Pointlessness (Ineffectual Whinging)
[âŠ] that whole insane âget up and goâ mentality, starting with the obscenity of the work ethic, squirming as it did like soft stool out of the arsehole of Christianity, condemning us to mindless labour and activity simply for its own sake. Work for its own sake â what kind of fucking numpty thought that was a good idea? Read the full page
Be critical of those who paint vice in nostalgic light, or youâll normalize confinement, and call it home.
Andrew McIntosh â On Conspiracy Theories (Ineffectual Whinging)
One of the main reason for getting into conspiracy theories is to get the illusion that by doing so, youâre exercising some kind of agency in the world. Read the full page
Andrew McIntosh â On Leaving Scenes (Ineffectual Whinging)
But thatâs the thing: with scenes, itâs the ideals first, not the people. People become mere faculties for the ideals, which is bizarre because all ideals only come from people. But scenes thus tend to act as if the ideals they live by and promote are like divine commandments handed down from on high. Read the full page
r/SuicideWatch, u/braujo
[âŠ] The reason youâre unhappy isnât a lack of working on yourself, thatâs something people tell you on Reddit to feel better about themselves. Plenty of fat ass motherfuckers are out there living their best lives, there are monsters that get married and built a beautiful family, ugly guys that get laid every dayâŠ
Working on yourself is great if thatâs what you want, but do not fool yourself. The reason our lives suck isnât superficial, self-help bs. Itâs something deeply wrong in our brains.
Existential Comics #501[đĄ] Continue reading
Dario Fabbri â The Cultural Element in Geopolitics
XII Festa Scienza Filosofia â Dario Fabbri â 2023/04/22 â The Cultural Element in Geopolitics â How History and Customs Influence the Trajectory of Powers. Continue reading
u/WanderingUrist
Iâm unclear as to why self-worth is necessary or meaningful. If you need to engage in self-delusion to delude yourself into believing in another delusion, you are probably better off with just dropping all of it.
Some of that discouragement for me (ed. in advocating) comes from seeing this world lacking in a plethora of metacognitive skills. Even the institutions themselves that discuss mental health â papers, researchers, those that present themselves as being scientifically minded, unbiased, and focus entirely on a description of the nature of certain things regarding mental health and neurodivergency â are constantly lacking so much metacognition that the very papers, the very pieces of research I read make that very apparent. And the people doing such work in the therapeutic world and otherwise donât have any idea itâs happening. They donât even know. So much so that Iâve seen forms of therapy that are attempting to instill metacognition in many of those that suffer with psychosis and many of those that are considered schizo-spectrum⊠When metacognition is the reason those people are sometimes crippled, mentally crippled by the world that they inhabit. But still, they try to produce more of it, only in a direction that would make them more functional, more available, more compliant to a society that they already oftentimes perceive as being run by mad men, and supported by cowardice, fear, death, fear of worthlessness, fear of invalidation. And in name of those things, the banality of evil grows and grows and grows.
Schizoid Angst â Schizoid Ramble: Emptiness and Advocacy
Philip Goff â Breaking Through the Consciousness Stalemate â The Institute of Art and Ideas
But thereâs an important difference here: in all other cases we postulate unobservables to explain what we can observe. In the unique case of consciousness the thing we are trying to explain is unobservable. Read the full page
In case you miss the Internet. Continue reading
Psychological mechanisms that feed the collective illusion
(EN Wikipedia) Just-world fallacy[đĄ] Continue reading
William Shatner: my trip to space filled me with âoverwhelming sadnessâ
William Shatner (Captain Kirk in Star Trek), after his trip in Jeff Bezosâ Blue Origin space shuttle on Oct. 13, 2021. Continue reading
Why I donât kill myself: an essay about beliefs
r/Pessimism, u/finitemode Continue reading
An idea about why most people are so irrational
r/Pessimism, u/Wanderer974 Continue reading
Underestimating Suffering & Suicide Thresholds
r/pessimism, u/CardinallyConsidered Continue reading
Psychiatry is a pseudoscience (a collection of posts from Reddit)
Disorders are not included within the DSM based on any objective evidence, and are always a reflection of the normative biases of the society. For example, homosexuality was in the DSM until the 1970s, but neither its inclusion nor its removal were based on any kind of objective evidence. Read the full page
r/Pessimism, u/CardinallyConsidered
Too much ignorance, and we have absolutely no respect for the potential for suffering that exists here. We are far more likely to shoot ourselves in the foot (so to speak), cause others as well as ourselves more pain than we ever thought possible, only to eventually decay and die.
Too little ignorance, and you become completely frozen by fear. You fully recognize the fragility of your body, the consciousness resting in it, and the fragility of all individual life forms.
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A certain level of solipsism is required for a decent quality of life. A certain level of ignorance and delusion are required for a decent quality of life.
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The sweet-spot of delusion. Thatâs where itâs at.
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Meditation has helped me in very gradually lifting the veil of safety/security. And then psychedelics rip the veil off of your face all at once and itâs just WAY too much. We are biologically programmed to be reproducing machines, and there are many mechanisms in place that keep us from completely losing our very complex human minds.
Aella on fetishes and the myth of trauma
My guess is also that fetishes are less malleable and controllable than most people seem to assume they are. Read the full page
https://www.reddit.com/r/Pessimism/comments/u8t6dy/there_are_no_personal_victories_or_bittersweet/[đĄ] Continue reading
JAI @jaivcalla â I have to fucking say this
Completely different ontological plane of existence compared to Peopleâą.
Related: University of Utah Neuroscience Initiative â The Unfixed Brain[đĄ]
Umberto Galimberti â Interviews and conferences (excerpts)
Schopenhauer is considered a pessimist, of course: every time you donât praise or exalt âthe individualâ, you are pessimistic, of course, right?⊠⊠Even poor Leopardi is pessimistic, isnât he? Those who say âpessimismâ⊠Iâm like: are you looking at reality, goddammit, or do you really not want to see it? Read the full page
For people with social anxiety disorder, everyday social interactions cause irrational anxiety, fear, self-consciousness, and embarrassment.
From Wikipedia.
The irony. Thinking is bad. Having a consciousness is bad. You have to be dumb and live the illusion.
r/Pessimism, u/Madular
Also a lot of people will tell you to just fake it/force it and it will became real, which is bs. The only real thing that can help is to find what you are good at, and what you enjoy and follow that path.
But finding what you are good/enjoy is another challenge in of itself.
Translated from Italian by me (WTFPL).
What really busts my balls is the cheerfulness of morning radio shows.
Natalino Balasso, YouTube, @Telebalasso, clippino di ottobre[đĄ]
The Origin of the Intrinsic Human Ridiculousness â Astutillo Smeriglia
In coma Ăš meglio[đĄ], re-posted in 2022 under my suggestion Continue reading
Why are normal people able to live (as explained by Lex Fridman)
Lex Fridman (a ânormieâ), explains in detail how he is able to live and not dwell on nihilism and depression, something that if youâre anything like me is fascinating and sometimes hard to fully grasp.
The bottom line is that itâs mainly how your brain is wired and its chemicals, which is consistent with the clear failure of psychotherapy in so many mental illness cases, and with the extensively demonstrated impossibility of changing the core of oneâs personality â and, by contrast, with how drugs are a way more useful tool, albeit also limited and sadly inconsistent, chaotic, still not very issue-specific, and full of negative effects.
Madame â The illusion of love, and the worst fear: anhedonia
2021/03/24, Sopra le righe
Things change faster and faster and we keep keeping up because we are afraid to die.
Vsauce in the video âIllusions of Timeâ, inspired by âSocial accelerationâ by Hartmut Rosa
Itâs like when you have a toothache and you curse yourself for all the times you felt fine and didnât fully appreciate how great it was not to have a toothache, and you promise yourself that if thereâs ever another day in your life when you donât have a toothache, youâll spend at least half of every day you have left reflecting on how great it is not to have a toothache, and you certainly wonât complain about stupid things anymore, like, I donât know, noisy neighbors or not being able to find a parking space â my God, how wonderful it is to not find a parking space without a toothache!
Astutillo Smeriglia in his blog âIn coma Ăš meglioâ (âBeing in a Coma is Betterâ) â Il famoso asteroide (âThe Famous Asteroidâ)
There is no magical third act
I just⊠I just cannot believe this is it. This is life. There is no magical third act where I am the star in some fantasy adventure. I wonât suddenly gain superpowers and fight cartoonish villains. This is it. This is all it will ever be. The rest of my life, quiet and drab. Our one shot at consciousness is spent on something so unimaginably boring. My curse of sentience is spent wageslaving, consuming media, messing around with hobbies that will never fill the void, shitting, cleaning. Thatâs all it will ever be. Sad and pathetic.
Popular chansâ meme/copypasta
But what happens if your parents grew up in a home where there was a lot of rage, your parents are terrified of rage, so they give you the message that good little girls donât get angry. The message that you get is that angry little girls donât get loved. So, to maintain your relationship with your parents, then you â not consciously, but automatically â your brain will repress anger in order to maintain the relationship with parents who canât handle your anger. Because maintaining that relationship is the only way to ensure your survival. Itâs been shown in studies after studies that repression of anger also represses the immune system, so you get e.g. colitis.
Because the two systems are part of the same supersystem, and because healty anger and the immune system have the same function, which is to protect you. So suppressing your self-protection in one way is suppressing it in another way as well, and that same system will then turn against you, and now you get an autoimmune disease.
The emotional repression disorganizes the immune system.
Gabor MatĂ© â The Roots of Healing â âSounds Trueâ (Tami Simon), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P38fhtdWFhY[đĄ]
Translated from Italian by me (WTFPL).
Luigi Anepeta, psychoanalyst, at LIDI (Italian League for the Protection of Introvertsâ Rights)âs official forum
https://lidi.forumfree.it/?t=51672617&st=30#entry625292054[đĄ]
The percentage of introverts varies depending on the statistics: in the absence of a clear definition of what it means to be introverted, estimates range from 5% to 25% â the latter figure being supported by American researchers. The 5-7% estimate proposed in my book âTimido, docile, ardenteâŠâ wasnât based on formal studies, but rather on my own observations in elementary schools, where the introverted child â easily recognizable at a glance â tends to be, on average, 1 in every 15 to 20 students. Today, I would be inclined to widen that range to 5-10%.
That introversion has a genetic basis â whose positive or negative developments depend on environmental influences â seems to me beyond doubt, given not only the behavioral traits observable early on, but especially the inner experiences (empathy, sense of justice, aesthetic sensitivity, etc.): these â both the traits and the experiences â are consequences of neoteny, which is, in absolute terms, the most defining feature of introversion.
Genetics is an extremely complex science and susceptible to ideological âaberrationsâ. With regard to introversion, what seems certain is that there is no single introversion gene, but rather a constellation of genes â dozens, hundreds, perhaps thousands â present in the parental genetic makeup and âextractedâ as a result of their combination. In parents, these genes may be evident as personality traits or masked by the dominance of extroverted genes. Once extracted and variously combined, they give rise to the introverted mode of being.
Translated from Italian by me (WTFPL).
Artists are expensive because they do drugs and have to deal with costly divorces.
Natalino Balasso, YouTube, Redbox, episode 1
Anonymous 04/23/18 (Mon) 13:55:38 No.174245, obscure imageboard
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>>174236
Secrets are all too easy to deal with. Skeletons in the closet are easy to hide. Itâs when your entire being itself is a secret, thatâs when interacting with people becomes complex and difficult, painful even.
Iâve noticed that so much of genuine social interaction rests on sharing experiences. Technical discussion is a kin to small talk and fails to bridge a gap between people and form a connection. Itâs about seeing a reflection of yourself in your environment, seeing that a shared reality exists between you and another being, thatâs what truly quenches loneliness.
The usual normalfag advice of âjust be yourselfâ seems so appropriate now.
Itâs possibly all theyâve ever known.
Ironically, the most anti-work post ever written, without realizing it: https://waitbutwhy.com/2018/04/picking-career.html[đĄ] Continue reading
Anonymous 02/09/18 (Fri) 20:03:16 No.3716, obscure imageboard
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But try to look at it with full honesty, without bias: the closer you look at yourself and the actual course of your life, the more you realize the objective fact: you were the Rain Man retard. And all your imaginary lives are delusional fantasies.
Translated from Italian by me (WTFPL).
whatever question youâre asking yourself, the answer is that youâre not in control, so ride the wave but be ready to swim
Natalino Balasso, YouTube, @Telebalasso, 2018 New Yearâs Speech[đĄ], in the end credits
I believe that we do not die because we fall ill, but we fall ill because we must die.
Umberto Galimberti, in various lectures
Depression is like reverse cancer: thereâs so little you want to do, but you have so much time left.
From the internet
Itâs like with human life: if youâre lucky enough to reach old age, the phases of your life will be: birth, childhood, puberty, masturbation, masturbation with a partner, pathetic attempts at masturbation, and death.
Astutillo Smeriglia in his blog âIn coma Ăš meglioâ (âBeing in a Coma is Betterâ) â Come nasce una teoria del complotto (âHow a Conspiracy Theory is Bornâ)
[âŠ] men are stones; they do not change.
Umberto Galimberti, in a lecture
The superego is a structure soluble in alcohol.
The first psychologists, in the 1960s, when they introduced psychology in Italy (as Galimberti recounts in an interview).
The first meeting with Alcoholics Anonymous unsettles you not because they are alcoholics, but because they are anonymous.
Massimiliano Parente, ilgiornale.it[đĄ]
Exclusion from the sphere of labor equates to social insignificance.
Umberto Galimberti at a conference
Why âWe Are the Fleshâ has a deeper twist ending than âThe Sixth Senseâ
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The infamous VLC logo â My thread in the official forum
Itâs undeniable that VLCâs logo is the worst logo in the entire history of software. Read the full page
Massimo Recalcati â Perversion
The Clinical Lesson of Jacques Lacan: Madness, Neurosis and Perversion (third session). IRPA, Associazione Accademia Pons, Jonas Onlus, Order of Psychologists of Lombardy, Enap Continue reading
Anonymous 02/29/16 (Mon) 08:44:00 No.5738, hikkichan.com (dead)
[âŠ]Maybe life is better enjoyed when we forget we even have one? [âŠ]
Every singer, poet, or writer has ninety-nine âloveâ at their disposal, after which they die.
Astutillo Smeriglia in his blog âIn coma Ăš meglioâ (âBeing in a Coma is Betterâ) â Proposte per un mondo migliore (âProposals for a Better Worldâ)
There is no freedom/choice/option of an instant/painless/effortless/guaranteed/permanent way out of life (and existence), therefore, life (and existence) is prison/torture/slavery/rape, and therefore, life (and existence) is survival of the stupidest.
Ever Deeper Honesty â Anonymous, https://www.everdeeperhonesty.com/[đĄ]
Also see:
- /thoughts/this-life-is-a-prison.html
- /images/smbc-this-life-is-a-prison.html
- My music track âThis life is a prisonâ[đĄ]
The true, only problem, is not having the aptitude for suicide.
Someone on the internet, around 2016
Anonymous 06/09/15 (Tue) 22:18:58 No.2771, hikkichan.com (dead)
Another aspect of escapism is that it is an addiction.
Like junkies, we need ever higher doses and at one point there simply isnât enough left, so we end up looking at the same shit over and over again desperately trying to remember how it was like when we first saw it, but by then it no longer satisfies.
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Boredom is the real problem of men; humans can bear next to anything when they are distracted, and most of our activities are steered towards that goal.
Translated from Italian by me (WTFPL).
What does it mean â and I close with this somewhat pedagogical note â what does it mean to âanticipate deathâ? That is, to be persuaded that one must die; what is the advantage of the tragic dimension?, which consists in the fact that you have to die and there is nothing waiting for you in the afterlife? The advantage is that you work a relativization of the problems of the now. You donât rush like a desperate man, you donât argue like a madman. You donât kill yourself for the worries of the world, because you are mortal; you are mortal, and when you have to retire you donât despair, you donât die two years after: because death is still there waiting for you, itâs not as if life ends: youâre the one who made it coincide with your work life and outside that you no longer know who you are. Because by now our identities are assigned by our social roles, right? We know who we are only because others recognize us in a role, outside that we no longer know who we are; and indeed all actors and actresses lead tragic lives, why is that? Because they didnât anticipated death, because they didnât assumed it as a condition⊠like a thickness of the soul, here â letâs use this word even if it refers to an entity that does not exist, the soul indeed.
But letâs keep this anticipation in mind, because by relativizing things we stop those typical dramas of those who believe in the immortality of the soul and therefore believe that this life has its own importance, their Ego becomes hegemonic and what depends on the Ego decides life and death; a love ends, and women are killed because itâs all over: no, no, no, stop. If you internalize death in advance then you relativize all things, and all things donât have that thickness of despair anymore (despair, not tragedy). But who are these desperate people? Those who had hope. Because those who never had hope, never despair.
Umberto Galimberti at Paisiello Theater in Ruffano (Lecce)
Translated from Italian by me (WTFPL).
I donât want to tell you clichĂ©s like âbe yourselfâ, because itâs clear that if youâre an idiot, being yourself wonât help you.
Natalino Balasso, YouTube, 2015 New Yearâs Eve Speech[đĄ]
I envy people who commit suicide
r/offmychest, u/SoulOfTheInternet Continue reading
Of course everyone knows, on an intellectual level, that they wonât live forever. But that doesnât mean that they really acknowledge it. Read the full page
The first time I watched Buffalo â66 â Matteo Gagliardi
https://www.vice.com/it/article/znj883/buffalo-66-vincent-gallo[đĄ] Continue reading
Itâs not that old people are wise: they just have a very low dose of sexuality and aggressiveness â thatâs it. And at this level they are also calm, unless they have a bad temper.
Umberto Galimberti, in a lecture
Fritz Maisenbacher on YouTube commenting Feinbergâs transcription of Bachâs âOrgan Triosonata in C major BWV 529, mvt. II. Largoâ played by Feinberg himself.
For me, the greatest Bach player of all time. He works only on the total sadness of Bach. Bringing in full light the absolute despair of Bach. And with such elegance! Strange and mourning voices in the darkness. Inviting you to their dark evening.
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No âthumb downâ and so goes further this holy way to express Bach, and further the ultimate singing of Feinberg, oh the nightly climax between 2:24 and 2:44⊠this is beyond my own possible emotional capacity⊠and the last lights at about 5:33⊠ade⊠ade⊠and the last chord at 6:36, not to be commentedâŠ
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Last week, I was in the hospital for another surgery.
Upon me, before and after the operation, I saw faces. I heard voices. Looking at me, talking to me.
And this evening, listening to this music, I understand all of it.
Ill or not, young or old, all these persons, kind nurses, charming anesthetist, competent doctors, royal surgeon, all of them, all of them, with no exception, faced also their terrible destiny, on the Titanic of earthly life⊠Their eyes are full of love and anguish, in a pathetic mix between life and death.
I came home now, bleeding and suffering, in the tiny hope of a good convalescence, and I listen to Feinbergâs Bach.
He is not an Angel, but he speaks for all of us.
In his hands, our destinies. Pain and sorrow, love, kisses, incandescent lips of desire, and always these dark evenings, and sudden lights, all together.
A complete life.
Bach knew it, Feinberg knows it, all these faces, these smiles, these eyes full of sadness and hope, all of us⊠all of usâŠ
â No, I donât believe that bad people exist; I believe that various forms of desperation exist. Some of these forms are so intense that the person who is suffering from them becomes the perpetrator of their own crimes, but not the mastermind. They find themselves committing a crime with astonishment.
Silvano Agosti â Ricky Farina (@rickyfarina) â âDialogo con Silvanoâ (âConversation with Silvanoâ), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anXfrcF-zE4[đĄ]
The Gift of Life â Astutillo Smeriglia
https://incomaemeglio.blogspot.com/2013/09/il-dono-della-vita.html[đĄ] Continue reading
Suffering is not just an intellectual game
https://reducing-suffering.org/the-horror-of-suffering/#Suffering_is_not_just_an_intellectual_game[đĄ] Continue reading
What we should do is take all the mentally defective people in this country and give them government jobs, and just sit back and watch things improve.
George Carlin quoting a joke by his brother Patrick â âUnmaskedâ interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-clvDxl8qI[đĄ]
Translated from Italian by me (WTFPL).
And if you donât win [at the slot machines], try asking yourself a question: if you were lucky, do you really think youâd be working in a call center?
Natalino Balasso, âBalasso testimonial videopokerâ[đĄ]
This is a strange, rather perverse, story, just to put it in very simple terms. Itâs a story about us, people, being persuaded to spend money we donât have, on things we donât need, to create impressions that wonât last, on people we donât care about.
Tim Jacksonâs 2010 TED talk
â It seems that the only happy people in this movie by the end, are slightly crazy, and they are the course of future Mr. and Mrs. Wunch â a lovely name â and theyâre the ones who donât believe that you may even need happiness in the present life. So, everyone else seems to be left miserable, and Iâm curious if this is if you are being playful with this, or if this is a serious comic commentary on what life looks to you at this point.
â This is my perspective, and has always been my perspective on life. I have a very grim pessimistic view of it; I always have, since I was a little boy, it hasnât gotten worse with age or anything: I do feel that itâs a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies, and deceive yourself. And Iâm not the first person to say this or the most articulate person on it: it was said by Nietzsche, it was said by Freud, it was said by Eugene OâNeill⊠One must have oneâs delusions to live: if you look at life too honestly and clearly, life does become unbearable because itâs a pretty grim enterprise, you will admit. So, I do feel that those two people are the only two people that are happy: they are capable of deluding themselves; if I saw them at a party in real life I would think that they were foolish people, and dumb, and silly, and I would laugh at them, but they would be happier than me. So that is the way I feel about it.
Woody Allen at Cannes Film Festival Press conference for âYou Will Meet a Tall Dark Strangerâ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yVPS8XBoBE[đĄ]
Doug Stanhope â The sad reality of sex
Doug Stanhope â 2010, live in Kansas City
Full show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwkoItmdQj4[đĄ]
r/IAmA, u/BetterAlone
I am a guy with âcovertâ Schizoid Personality Disorder. That is, I donât give a damn about people and prefer to stay alone and self-sufficient but I fake extroversion to get by.
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Problem is, I also like to accomplish stuff (entirely for my own sense of internal satisfaction) and I need other people to do that. So I fake extroversion and interest in other people even if I donât give a fuck. This actually exacerbates my pre-existing sense of existential isolation, since it shows how easily people can be handled.
I have been defined as âbubblyâ and âcharismaticâ. Absurd.
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deep down I actually feel a desperate need for love and friendship
HahahaâŠoh, no you donât, you only think you do. Youâll eventually just be disappointed/bored by it if you do find it, and discard it like every other social function you have encountered. Iâm sure you have already tossed potential friendships away simply because you became uninterested after a few days/weeks, so you know what I mean.
What I think that people like us are actually feeling, is the hollowness of our egocentric fantasies which we wrap our minds in. Our ideal level of emotional interaction is so completely removed from reality that it is literally unobtainable. I think that intellectually we realize this, so it causes some angst, if only because we think that we will likely never be able to fulfill our fantasy.
Thereâs no RL, only AFK.
Why is there something rather than nothing?
https://skepticalinquirer.org[đĄ] Continue reading
Gavazzeni: âMusic worsens the manâ
Alberto Sinigaglia (âttLâ, La Stampa, insert) Continue reading
There seems to be an inborn drive in all human beings not to live in a steady emotional state, which would suggest that such a state is not tolerable to most people. Why else would someone succumb to the attractions of romantic love more than once? Didnât they learn their lesson the first time or the tenth time or the twentieth time? And itâs the same old lesson: everything in this life â I repeat, everything â is more trouble than itâs worth. And simply being alive is the basic trouble. This is something that is more recognized in Eastern societies than in the West. Thereâs a minor tradition in Greek philosophy that instructs us to seek a state of equanimity rather than one of ecstasy, but it never really caught on for obvious reasons. Buddhism advises its practitioners not to seek highs or lows but to follow a middle path to personal salvation from the painful cravings of the average sensual life, which is why it was pretty much reviled by the masses and mutated into forms more suited to human drives and desires. It seems evident that very few people can simply sit still. Children spin in circles until they collapse with dizziness.
Thomas Ligotti â âFantastic Metropolisâ interview
Old people, they look back at the good old days, and it was good because they were young. But they act like it was âthe dayâ. No, it was âcause youth is good: thatâs gone, youâre fucked; itâs not the day. And then they reject anything thatâs new, itâs like we do with fucking hip-hop, if youâre in your 30s: «Oh, fuck that, that ainât music, we had music back when 38 Special was aroundâŠÂ» What? No. Letâs all fucking kill ourselves for the hypocrisy, right?
Doug Stanhope â Deadbeat Hero
Umberto Galimberti â The success of philosophy
But for those who, adapted to the world, and with a moderate self-awareness still do not find a meaning of their existence, and therefore come into contact not with this or that pain, but with the essence of pain, for those there is no remedy in the pharmacy and perhaps not even in psychotherapy. Read the full page
Reviews of âThe Depressed Personâ by David Foster Wallace
Wonderfully modeled on the depressing spiral of searching within oneself to find an answer to a problem that IS oneself. Read the full page
Athletes
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But itâs better for us not to know the kinds of sacrifices the professional-grade athlete has made to get so very good at one particular thing⊠the actual facts of the sacrifices repel us when we see them: basketball geniuses who cannot read, sprinters who dope themselves, defensive tackles who shoot up with bovine hormones until they collapse or explode. We prefer not to consider closely the shockingly vapid and primitive comments uttered by athletes in postcontest interviews or to consider what impoverishments in oneâs mental life would allow people actually to think the way great athletes seem to think. Note the way âup close and personalâ profiles of professional athletes strain so hard to find evidence of a rounded human lifeâoutside interests and activities, values beyond the sport. We ignore whatâs obvious, that most of this straining is farce. Itâs farce because the realities of top-level athletics today require an early and total commitment to one area of excellence. An ascetic focus. A subsumption of almost all other features of human life to one chosen talent and pursuit. A consent to live in a world that, like a childâs world, is very small⊠[Tennis player] Joyce is, in other words, a complete man, though in a grotesquely limited way⊠Already, for Joyce, at twenty-two, itâs too late for anything else; heâs invested too much, is in too deep. I think heâs both lucky and unlucky. He will say he is happy and mean it. Wish him well.
David Foster Wallace, âThe String Theoryâ (July 1996, Esquire)
Noam Chomsky on wage slavery, slavery and classical liberalism
Erich Fromm â Normal people are the sickest
I think itâs a common fiction that people share, that the modern person is happy. Read the full page