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A quotation from Bertrand Russell

What people mean, therefore, by the struggle for life is really the struggle for success. What people fear when they engage in the struggle is not that they will fail to get their breakfast next morning, but that they will fail to outshine their neighbours.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 3 “Competition” (1930)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #comparison #competition #ego #failure #fear #life #living #pride #rivalry #struggle #success #winning
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Ah yes, another tech bro with a ✨ God complex ✨ #rollerblading through Brooklyn under the delusion he's the next urban cartographer. Because nothing screams "I'm a visionary" like strapping on skates to capture 3D scans during the witching hour. 🚀 Just don't trip over your #ego, dude.
owentrueblood.com/blog/2025/05 #techbro #urbanexploration #3Dscanning #HackerNews #ngated

owentrueblood.comHelmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades

If you don't know why there's a correlation between the world of #psychiatry declaring a world mental health pandemic and the rampant #exploitation of the human #ego and id, then we definitely need to deprogram you.

The world of academic psychiatry has also found that there's been a rise of #Narcissistic Personality Disorder (or NPD) for short.

With this in mind, we see that our #environment shapes us - but certain people would like you to ignore that, particularly if they read Ayn Rand.

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@todymotmot @FranceskaMann @profdc9 @zakalwe @wendinoakland @GutterPoetry

the essential #psychological failure of #toxicIdealism is as follows:

if one can justify a position inside the ivory tower mind palace of one's self-regard, then that is "morality"

no, it's #ego masturbation

true #morality is action, even if it is messy

but they value the purity of themselves, over actually mattering to the world

the real world is too messy, they can't be bothered with messiness

ego over #reality

A quotation from Josh Billings

How menny people thare iz whoze importance depends entirely upon the size ov their hotel bills.
 
[How many people there are whose importance depends entirely upon the size of their hotel bills.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)

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