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The entire time I was re-reading this, I was thinking how much it applies to the wave of troonery. People have no goals to attain that they find meaningful anymore because they’re either no longer necessary or just seem too unattainable, so they make up problems, such as “I’m the wrong gender now”. Maybe Ted got mad and left the appointment because he had an epiphany that modern society and the mutual rejection between him and it seemed to brainwash him into thinking his identity/being was the problem, and it pissed him off that he almost fell into the trap he’s speaking of here (that being endlessly trying to solve nonexistent problems)."When people do not have to exert themselves to satisfy 4 their physical needs they often set up artificial goals for themselves. In many cases they then pursue these goals with the same energy and emotional involvement that they otherwise would have put into the search for physical necessities...
39. We use the term “surrogate activity” to designate an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that people set up for themselves merely in order to have some goal to work toward, or let us say, merely for the sake of the “fulfillment” that they get from pursuing the goal...
41. For many if not most people, surrogate activities are less satisfying than the pursuit of real goals (that is, goals that people would want to attain even if their need for the power process were already fulfilled). One indication of this is the fact that, in many or most cases, people who are deeply involved in surrogate activities are never satisfied, never at rest. Thus the money-maker constantly strives for more and more wealth. The scientist no sooner solves one problem than he moves on to the next. The long-distance runner drives himself to run always farther and faster. Many people who pursue surrogate activities will say that they get far more fulfillment from these activities than they do from the “mundane” business of satisfying their biological needs, but that is because in our society the effort needed to satisfy the biological needs has been reduced to triviality. More importantly, in our society people do not satisfy their biological needs AUTONOMOUSLY but by functioning as parts of an immense social machine. In contrast, people generally have a great deal of autonomy in pursuing their surrogate activities."
There is definitely a link between the dormant human, like a loner playing the same video game over and over again all day everyday and troonery.
I’ve always agreed and been fascinated with Ted since I first read his manifesto as a teen. In my opinion what he argues applies to so many of society’s problems.
Hopefully, Cosmo doesn’t take it to the point of blowing shit up. But I doubt he would since he’s too self indulgent and seems to be only interested in these arguments as a scapegoat for his fuck ups.
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Look at this dude trying to act detached like he isn't part of the derail
