On Left & Right Self-Improvement: Capital(ism) is NOT making you eat junk, not keep fit, consume rubbish, drink depressants, smoke cigs, stand under fluorescents, not take vitamins, not meditate. It is entirely up to you whether or not you do or do not do these things -
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There are situations where it's tougher to acquire these things, but there is no situation where you HAVE to undertake that which is knowingly to your detriment. Looking after oneself via basic scientific principles - wellness - is not Capitalist propaganda -
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The criteria for creating a life of potential, health and examination would exist in roughly the same manner under any other system. That is, just because the your Utopia has arrived doesn't mean you'll suddenly feel good.
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Right-wingers - usually - understand that under almost any system the means for creating meaning and wellness can be found from living a life in sync with that which is beneficial. One can and has to find the impetus for this alone.
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Sure, people can and most likely will help you, but dragging the thirstiest horse miles and miles to water means nothing is if hasn't the perspective as to WHY it should drink.
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And so left-wingers believe - almost conspiratorially - that the only means to improvement is via a collective support network. And yet, one had to begin it, one had to supply it, each had to bring themselves. What good is a directionless group?
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Collective support is fantastic motivation for those already propelled, but if the individual in need of help is merely a corpse crowd surfing, reality will hit hard once the surf is refused.
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Stay the path! Objecting because you might take it to an extreme is exactly what Meta is talking about.
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