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Outro said: 

Isn't it enough to be approximately functional in one domain of life?

 This is why you are a poorfag beta.

Outro said: 

I think this is on my mind because I've read that many narc rants here that roughly align with this shit, even though those people would balk at the idea of being compared to Instagram wellness idiots.

When I say wellness, I'm referring to that kind of holistic perfection shit that embodies wealth, success, fitness etc etc

I do it semi-sarcastically.. There's your answer.

I care much more about.... higher ideals than I do about my paycheck. Still, it amuses that others worry so much about my paycheck. Much more than I do.

It's super weird to me that people feel so strongly about projecting this image that they totally fabricate a life of 5am workouts, supergrain smoothies and reading Nietzsche.

Ahahahaha.  I was watching my sister go to all sorts of tourist spots just to take selfies of herself some months ago whilst visiting me, not giving a shit about the experience. I was flabbergasted.

...But what the fuck does Nietzsche have to do with this? Is that the some kind of a fad started by Jordan B. Peterson?

Why the fuck do they care so much? Isn't it enough to be approximately functional in one domain of life? No wonder everyone I know is obsessed with Lexapro, Netflix, and tiny dogs.

It's easy not to be obsessed..... when you have nothing. Be something, and then try to let go of that. Much harder.

I think a lot of the phemonema is a result of media and marketing. As a vector to start at, a lot of people are unhappy with their lives for various reasons. Most work a job as a means to an end, and spirituality/mental development isn't a big part of Western culture. We're seeing things like meditation and yoga entering onto collective awareness, but not exactly in any meaningful and integrated way as a norm of society. There's a hunger for fulfillment outside of the vacuum of materialism.

There is a large market for disenfranchised people, and this is where people like Tai Lopez, Steve Pavlina, Joel Olsteen, Jordan Peterson, Deepak Chopra, etc.—guides who've "made it"—come in. And with social media there are now a ton of "influencers" in the spotlight pushing their products or products for others. There are people I run accross on Twitter that you really need to be looking in a niche community to find, and they'll have around 30K followers and programs to sell. Same thing happens on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook. There's a market for life improvement, and the more economically viable it is, the more it gets advertised and put in front of more new eyes.

The people who get on board with this stuff and post it on their feeds are probably dopamine junkying it out, looking for validation...and incidentally getting others wanting the same in on it.

Tryptamine said: 

I think a lot of the phemonema is a result of media and marketing. As a vector to start at, a lot of people are unhappy with their lives for various reasons. Most work a job as a means to an end, and spirituality/mental development isn't a big part of Western culture. We're seeing things like meditation and yoga entering onto collective awareness, but not exactly in any meaningful and integrated way as a norm of society. There's a hunger for fulfillment outside of the vacuum of materialism.

There is a large market for disenfranchised people, and this is where people like Tai Lopez, Steve Pavlina, Joel Olsteen, Jordan Peterson, Deepak Chopra, etc.—guides who've "made it"—come in. And with social media there are now a ton of "influencers" in the spotlight pushing their products or products for others. There are people I run accross on Twitter that you really need to be looking in a niche community to find, and they'll have around 30K followers and programs to sell. Same thing happens on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook. There's a market for life improvement, and the more economically viable it is, the more it gets advertised and put in front of more new eyes.

The people who get on board with this stuff and post it on their feeds are probably dopamine junkying it out, looking for validation...and incidentally getting others wanting the same in on it.

Nice post.

Outro said: 

I think this is on my mind because I've read that many narc rants here that roughly align with this shit, even though those people would balk at the idea of being compared to Instagram wellness idiots.

When I say wellness, I'm referring to that kind of holistic perfection shit that embodies wealth, success, fitness etc etc

It's super weird to me that people feel so strongly about projecting this image that they totally fabricate a life of 5am workouts, supergrain smoothies and reading Nietzsche.

Why the fuck do they care so much? Isn't it enough to be approximately functional in one domain of life? No wonder everyone I know is obsessed with Lexapro, Netflix, and tiny dogs.

 it's almost like you don't know what narcissism is lol

Tryptamine said: 

I think a lot of the phemonema is a result of media and marketing. As a vector to start at, a lot of people are unhappy with their lives for various reasons. Most work a job as a means to an end, and spirituality/mental development isn't a big part of Western culture. We're seeing things like meditation and yoga entering onto collective awareness, but not exactly in any meaningful and integrated way as a norm of society. There's a hunger for fulfillment outside of the vacuum of materialism.

Yeah that's not a bad read, actually. Bit tragic that the search for fulfillment beyond materialism turned into another form of materialism lol 

There is a large market for disenfranchised people, and this is where people like Tai Lopez, Steve Pavlina, Joel Olsteen, Jordan Peterson, Deepak Chopra, etc.—guides who've "made it"—come in. And with social media there are now a ton of "influencers" in the spotlight pushing their products or products for others. There are people I run accross on Twitter that you really need to be looking in a niche community to find, and they'll have around 30K followers and programs to sell. Same thing happens on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook. There's a market for life improvement, and the more economically viable it is, the more it gets advertised and put in front of more new eyes.

The people who get on board with this stuff and post it on their feeds are probably dopamine junkying it out, looking for validation...and incidentally getting others wanting the same in on it.

 I agree that it seems symptomatic of disenfranchisement. It's funny to me how groups that seem quite different on the surface, like Jordan Peterson's bros and Gwenyth Paltrow's kale-eating white women, are essentially the same shit but wrapped in a different flag. Both are aspirational personality cults that absorb low-hanging fruit who need some kind of life guru.

natasha87 said: 

Outro said: 

I think this is on my mind because I've read that many narc rants here that roughly align with this shit, even though those people would balk at the idea of being compared to Instagram wellness idiots.

When I say wellness, I'm referring to that kind of holistic perfection shit that embodies wealth, success, fitness etc etc

It's super weird to me that people feel so strongly about projecting this image that they totally fabricate a life of 5am workouts, supergrain smoothies and reading Nietzsche.

Why the fuck do they care so much? Isn't it enough to be approximately functional in one domain of life? No wonder everyone I know is obsessed with Lexapro, Netflix, and tiny dogs.

 it's almost like you don't know what narcissism is lol

 I always assumed that narcissism didn't seek that kind of external validation. If you think you're a genius, why do you need non-geniuses to ratify your self-belief... if that makes sense.

Idk, is there such thing as insecure narcisissm? Isn't that just being obnoxious and delusional?

its all about image, and not at all about reality. thats narcissism in a nutshell

natasha87 said: 

its all about image, and not at all about reality. thats narcissism in a nutshell

 But you don't need to worry about that, you are perfect the way you are ^.^