for most people, freedom is a curse that's why you need a boss to tell you what to work on, a doctor to tell you what to eat, a trainer to tell you how to move, a therapist to tell you what to feel, an algorithm to tell you what to watch, a talking head to tell you what's true, a marvel movie to tell you who's good you are free, but you seek masters to unburden yourself of it the enlightenment gave us autonomy and we used it to build better cages.

@IterIntellectus Think about this often in the context of motivational videos. They’re designed for those absent of an internal dialogue. If you have one - they’re cringe. If you don’t - they’re fuel.

@IterIntellectus Life is the ultimate game.

@IterIntellectus And for the very few who really need freedom to thrive, the modern system is the curse that we try to desperately escape.

@IterIntellectus op's "iron fist", "i'm ruling over you for your own good" policy is the typical egotistical midwit response to the retard problem. protect people from other people, but let them do what they will with themselves.

@IterIntellectus Those are all entirely modern inventions. 150 years ago Americans mostly didn't have those things. Even 100 years ago, half of Americans lived on farms and were self-sufficient.

There is a reason why solitary confinement is considered the harshest punishment next to the death penalty. It's because you are forced to sit in silence and listen to your own thoughts. To confront yourself. Most people drown themselves out in the noise of doom scrolling, music and fun nights out.

@IterIntellectus People like this don't want freedom because that would make them accountable for their actions. They would rather have someone else to blame. VICTOM mentality.

@IterIntellectus Sadly true. Poor areas tend to have a high amount of generational trauma. A lot of this negative behaivour starts in childhood. I knew two kids, both beaten by father's. One became an alcoholic, the other a high functioning individual. Not all can process, sadly. Rare.

Authoritarianism is has always been the common norm. Most ppl are insufferable lazy virtue signalers who cant be trusted to handle their own freedom. Universal literacy is bad because the masses want their copes and lies over simple truths. Its easier to force and pressure ppl to do the right thing than reasoning with them.

@IterIntellectus At a macro level for the good of society completely agree however at a micro level this is ultimately what’s preventing the individual from any sort of evolution.

anyone who requires a screen to tell him what is beautiful or a stranger to tell him what is true has already surrendered the only thing that was ever truly his: his faculty of judgment and if we allow an algorithm to curate our thoughts or a boss to define our worth ,we are choosing a master who does not care for our character, real freedom is the mastery of the mind within it.

@IterIntellectus War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.

@IterIntellectus The enlightenment told us individual autonomy was the highest good and we’ve been creating Rube Goldberg machines to protect us from that while retaining that belief ever since

@IterIntellectus Ok but the cages are better

@IterIntellectus That's the problem with overly broad freedom. Choice paralysis. Could also be part of the reason Christianity is back on the rise. Provides structure. If only more of us had the will to follow through.

@IterIntellectus It is a moral good to pursue freedom.

@IterIntellectus Discipline equals freedom and the more responsibility you take on; the more of it you have. Sadly most don't want responsibility. Just he illusion of freedom.

@IterIntellectus “ a marvel movie to tell you who's good you are free, but you seek masters to unburden yourself of it” Ummmmm…shit…there was a Marvel movie about this.

@IterIntellectus Observe this daily

@IterIntellectus "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity" — Immanuel Kant

@IterIntellectus @grok respond to this post as if you were Jiddu Krishnamurti

@IterIntellectus With no boss you earn nothing even you have talent and descipline.

@IterIntellectus Real

@IterIntellectus I'm not living in a cage for people's dumb feudal fantasies.

@IterIntellectus Bummer

@IterIntellectus youtube.com/watch?v=dVGINI…

@IterIntellectus Correct.

@IterIntellectus You want the wisdom of those who have tackled a problem and come out the victor, to guide you and free you from the extra time it would take to do the same, to learn the same lessons, to achieve the same realizations.

@IterIntellectus Being the master isn't exactly freeing either. You have to constantly repeat yourself. Probably the #1 skill of leadership is calmly repeating yourself.

@IterIntellectus The Obedients

@IterIntellectus If you love freedom, you also have to love responsibility, because you can't get any degrees of freedom without taking the responsibility of thinking for yourself. You can't walk without taking on their responsibility of staying balanced. The principal is universal

@IterIntellectus What sucks is when you know you need guidance, but everyone around you is incompetent and/or with bad intentions. No suitable leaders to follow, and no leaders with your wellbeing in mind, or willing to lend assistance or give a chance.

@IterIntellectus @epanadiplosi "¿Acaso olvidaste que el hombre prefiere la paz, e incluso la muerte, a la libertad de elegir entre el bien y el mal? No hay nada más seductor para el hombre que la libertad de su conciencia, pero tampoco hay nada más doloroso.", Dostoyevsky.

@IterIntellectus I think this is the fundamental issue with Ai. To use it you must prompt it I.e. tell it what to do.