Brief elaboration on @SpaceGiko's excellent recent tweet:
The bluepill, "be happy," is life's default motivation, the most convenient...
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...for those who already have power and influence. When this motivation is found to be unsatisfactory, a person realizes they can't be...
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...happy if they aren't being good. This is the redpill: seeing how others manipulate people by making them happy. If goodness is your...
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...motivation, you are slightly more of a threat to power, as you may fight against it for propagating evil, or refuse to cooperate.
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But, you are still exploitable by those who can set your standard for good, or who can appeal dishonesty to it, compelling you to act...
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...out of a sense of guilt. So eventually it dawns on you: you can't even be truly good if you will not be yourself! This is the meaning...
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...of much of what's written about free will. Unless you, yourself, want to be good, you cannot ever pretend to it. And, sure of yourself...
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...you learn what it is that you can never compromise, and what all your actions must tend towards. You may still be exploited, but not...
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...against your own interests, only by those who can further your objectives.
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