but most other people just....don't. there's no growth, there's no curiosity, there's no intrinsic desire or drive to understand things better

there are guys i knew back in college who were definitely smarter and wiser than me back then and who i looked up to who i've caught up with in recent years and they're pretty much the exact same person. it's wild. like they got trapped in a star trek temporal bubble or something

most people really just do not care about anything at all beyond their small little parochial corner of the world and don't grow at all in any way that matters. it reminds me of the concept of "the gossip trap": until human civilization became advanced enough to move beyond dunbar-number groups into hierarchies and commercial relationships based on abstraction, individuals would always be pulled back into the bucket by the other normie crabs and no one was ever free to create, innovate, evolve, etc

https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/the-gossip-trap

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5748908&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49094538)

It's these people who end up becoming Orange Man Bad TDS nutcases or "christcucks" who believe in insane nonsense like Israel First dispensationalism

The wise man knows what he doesn't know and is comfortable with drawing lines and staying within them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5748908&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49095821)

Here's an example, when I went to Disneyland with CSLG, we were having a sort of general discussion about our careers. I asked him, sort of in a coy way, if I should stop working for my defense firm. It was loud and there was a crowd around and he took my question to be, will you (CSLG) ever stop working?

When he answered, I had to redirect him and say, "No, I was only thinking about myself." To which he quickly replied, "Haha, so was I!"

So you see, we see the world through our lived experiences. As you're a parent now, you expect more from your parents in terms of help, support, etc. They aren't giving it. That's okay. Let that just be the state of things. Don't jump to conclusions about what shitty people they are. You're kind of shitty too, you may not realize it yet, but just turn the magnifying glass inward. Then you will see. Believe me, you will see.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5748908&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49094546)

lol @ manchild TMF keeping you on the plantation to fund his X6 instead of keeping you at home to raise the child

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5748908&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49106902)

you ghouls never should have had a kid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5748908&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49107017)

but since they did they should at least try to be decent parents but I see Thats never going to happen

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5748908&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49109425)

I was against these ghouls having kids for over a decade

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5748908&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49109563)

then there's shit like this, also kind of hard to just tell your kids to go out and play with the neighborhood kids all day when no one else does the same

https://abcnews.go.com/US/georgia-moms-arrest-puts-free-range-parenting-back/story?id=116004039

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5748908&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5307129#49109538)