Want some advice? Here’s some advice:
Be a good man.
Any advice that doesn’t distil down into that isn’t worth heeding.
If you’re the sort of man who asks why should I?, then do it for selfish reasons. Do it because good men tend to be happier.
If you ask how do I do that?, then incinerate that question. You already know how to be a good man.
Is that too big a step though? Here’s a smaller goal for you:
Be less pathetic.
“What do you mean by that? Who decides what’s pathetic or not? It’s so subjective!”
Just stop. You already know what less pathetic looks like. If you can’t face the truth yourself, think of someone you admire and wonder how they’d answer that.
… oh?
What’s that?
You think be less pathetic is some obvious advice?
Great! That means you aren’t too absorbed by social media, where you’ll see how millions of folks celebrate weakness.
Some of them mean well, thinking that society would somehow be fine if everyone only did what they wanted.
(The toilets would be filthy in that world…)
Some of them are too lazy or anxious to work hard, so they gravitate towards any system that tells them they don’t have to.
Others are just genuinely low in intelligence.
Scattered among those are some easily influenced, some creative souls, some optimists who think socialism could actually work this time…
Some are smart, some are dullards, but they all support a philosophy that would erode even the things they support fast and thoroughly.
Oh well.
I doubt any socialist would want to read No Hopeless Men. They might like the title – they are a fascinatingly optimistic lot, able to overlook generations of failure and misery – but that’s where the affection ends.
They don’t like that they have to put the work in.
And they certainly don’t like that they’d have to pay for it.
It’s not a lot of time or effort but, to someone who expects free housing and education, it wouldn’t take much to exclude them.
If you’re willing to invest in yourself, though?
You might find this way to transcend anxiety is well worth it: