Wandering Adventure Party

yeah, metaphorically punching them in the face.

people like this tend to only respond well visceral reality right in front of their faces. just think of how addicts have to ‘bottom’ before they seek recovery… it’s basically the same issue. they have to visible see the horrible negative consequences of what they are doing to themselves. you can’t ‘win’ these people over by appealing to them… shock therapy is really the only think.

and a lot of them will tell you how they were ‘shocked’ at some point into their lives out of their previous beliefs.

anecdotally all my mentally ill or social inferior friends/partners over the years… have all become full blow misinformation/delusional conspiracy theory types of people. and are no longer my friends.

their desperation in my reading is that they simple refuse to acknowledge their mistakes and rectify their behaviors… so it must be some vast conspiracy that causes them to overspending, make poor lifestyle choices, and be unable to keep a job…

and to them anyone who is mildly put together is some privledged jerk with zero empathy for them and their ‘totally unique’ situation…

i also pathologically avoid these people now, i was a lot more tolerate of them 10 years ago. But all they want to do is drag you down into their delusions and misery, they do not want to improve their own lives, let alone ours. They will also take your successes as personal attacks on themselves…

Studying philosophy well, and actually learning how to do it, makes you a better thinker. Yes, just like running will make you a better runner.

However, doing it poorly, will make you worse. Lots and lots of casual consumers of philosophy dont’ study it. They just read it passively and parrot it back out. Sort of like running for 200m and feeling like that is as good as running a 2km.