Nature placed us between pleasure and suffering, and we are not free to choose suffering or give up pleasure. With regard to animals man has the advantage of being able to see the distant goal, therefore he can agree to a certain amount of sufferings anticipating the future compensation. This is the way we are designed. Those, who seem reckless, imprudent, self-sacrificing romantics are actually no more than calculating people, for whom the past manifests as the present so obviously that they are ready to accept anguish unusual for others, which we take as a heroic feat.
But in fact, even in this case our body makes a conscious or subconscious calculation. Psychologists know that each man’s priorities may be changed so that a coward will turn into a hero. The future may be so elevated in man’s eyes that he will agree to any kind of destitution for the sake of it.
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Tell me then, Mikhail. What is there to believe in, in people? When everything everyone else does is just an egotisitcal act for pleasure?
I agree with you.
But then, what is the cost? This unsureness. To look at people calculatingly, to see them as just cause and effect egoists, pleasure seeking.
That is the truth, you say.
But now, how do we bear it?
For there are no more ‘heroes’.
Unfortunately, there is no magic wand for fast recovery 🙁
We have to accelerate the process of realization of egoism as evil in the whole world by disseminating knowledge about the crisis and its cause – our opposition to nature.
Yet, as soon as a sufficient amount of suffering has been accumulated, a person makes a calculation and decides that there is a greater profit in correction than in suffering, and makes an effort to become similar to nature.
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