Idiocy

[Schizophonia]

It is difficult to understand the topic because the signified is hidden under ramblings.

As I see it, it is easier to become neurotic in this day and age. Social media instills and perpetuates new ego-driven loops.
Jobs and means of livelihood are less natural, and it is easier to become self-absorbed as a way to avoid radicality.

The answer to alienation is radicality—anything powerful enough to wrest attention away from the objects with which the ego identifies and suffers.
Sports, high-quality food, and art in general represent radicality.

[Mellowmarsh]

5 hours ago, Inliytened1 said:

I just don't feel these guys are on the same level as Ralston, Gura, or Tolle or Spira. No where near it 

Do these different levels have their own ceilings?

[Inliytened1]

9 minutes ago, Mellowmarsh said:

Do these different levels have their own ceilings?

Yeah. They do. And I've about hit Leo's ceiling.  Kind of sick of his narcissism.

[Breakingthewall]

On 11/7/2026 at 1:00 PM, Schizophonia said:

It is difficult to understand the topic because the signified is hidden under ramblings.

As I see it, it is easier to become neurotic in this day and age. Social media instills and perpetuates new ego-driven loops.
Jobs and means of livelihood are less natural, and it is easier to become self-absorbed as a way to avoid radicality.

The answer to alienation is radicality—anything powerful enough to wrest attention away from the objects with which the ego identifies and suffers.
Sports, high-quality food, and art in general represent radicality.

It is not that identifying with the ego has become easier today. What has changed is the entire vector of human existence.

For most of human history, individuals saw themselves as parts sustained by a higher structure: God, the nation, the family, an ideal, whatever it might be. The individual was a component within a greater whole, and the mind was largely shaped and constrained by shared dogmas.

After industrial revolution little by little a profound shift took place. Individualism became the dominant cultural framework. Each person came to see themselves as the center of their own reality, and the purpose of life became the pursuit of the greatest possible well-being. The supreme value became living the best life possible.

I am not arguing whether this change is good or bad. I am pointing out that it happened. And once it happened, the vector of existence changed.
The individual now experiences themselves primarily as a receiver. They receive experiences, pleasure and pain, approval and rejection. What is positive is being valued by others, attaining status, being admired, having pleasurable experiences. What is negative is the opposite.

Because the desired standards are rarely fully attained, the psyche tends to experience itself as fundamentally insufficient. It sees itself as a character that falls short of an ideal. Life gradually becomes an attempt to compensate for what feels shamefully inadequate and to move closer to that ideal. This is the soil in which neuroticism flourishes.
This is the development of an individual who no longer feels supported by anything greater than themselves. In the absence of such support, they seek it in the gaze of others, who are themselves caught in exactly the same game.

The result is a deep background anxiety, managed through a continuous cycle of consuming content, maintaining a social life, chasing relationships that often become frustrating, alcohol, and projecting fulfillment into the future.

It seems that this way of living is just a transitional one. It is an intermediate phase leading toward another mode of existence. That is what we are exploring here (in spirituality in general). the individual that finds the support in itself, the absolute integrity that arises when the individual open itself to it's nature, that is inseparable of the reality itself. It's not solipsism but interconnection, absence of limits and constantly access to what is, to the unlimited being that everything is. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Breakingthewall

[Breakingthewall]

The point is that a human has a genetic structure that will create identity. It's like an embryo that, as soon as it receives the necessary stimulus, begins to develop.

Without a real structure created by generations and the brutal imposition of reality, identity is organized around fluid values, and the fluid individual suffers from a default imbalance.

They are constantly compensating for this, and that translates into anxiety as the basis of existence. This is a very complicated labyrinth, an enigma that the evolutionary force that is human life tries to solve. Life is always in movement, changing, finding new possibilities, and that's what we are.