Gents, I love you all, and my logic says we will win this. If not here, then the next battle, or the next.
But, my logic is disconnected from my emotion, and my emotion gets me when there's a set back.
I've had to spit out the black pill a bunch of times.
Black pill leads no where good, and I would never encourage anyone to take it. So my question is this: What do you do to hock up the black pill? Overcome negative emotions and get back on the right track?
I'm not looking for any black pill advocates. I'm looking for more tips and tricks to dodging that little monster when it comes at me, and I bet there's a few others out there who would be interested as well.
you have to learn to take the black pill and ride it to the bottom, then bounce back all on your own...then you're immune to black pills forever
here's a small sample that might help...
black pill: most of what people do makes no difference at all, and the world goes on spinning without a care
embracing this black pill, and letting it carry you to the the bottom of the pit of nihilism, doesn't feel good. but once you're there you can see that you're wrong, and that while most of the people and most of their actions seem meaningless there is an inescapable truth: only people, and their actions, are able to do anything meaningful at all for other people
maybe the statistics aren't on our side, but you can never know ahead of time which actions by which people will be the ones that matter.
therefore there is no choice but to trudge on, because the black pill can show you that failure and meaninglessness are statistically prevalent, but it can never "prove" meaninglessness is inevitable... and it can't take away meaning from the small fraction of human behavior that moves the needle and pushes us forward
tldr: the black pill is only dangerous if it's the last pill you swallow