Ideas that bite

Personal achievement comes at the cost of being
willing to ignore what people think and say, in
following one’s own values, selfishly and
deliberately. Anything else amounts to nothing
more than making one’s life subservient to ideas
inherently contrary to happiness.

If you're not 'helping yourself' someone else will
do it for you. Invariably, if this idea of letting
someone else live your life permeates a given
population on a grand scale all sorts of Controllers
will attempt to create ever new "victims" of this
mind rape, imposing a Controller Value System for
the one these victims aren't strong enough to form
on their own.

Because nature recognized a demand and so it was
filled.

Then it becomes so easy to lay the blame on someone
else.

Maybe that's the appeal.

It's so fucking easy.

And who have you met lately that talks a language
in which he takes all the blame for what happens
to him?

Seen any that fit that 'selfless, helpless' description?

I have.

The vast majority.

Here's a sample of a book that needs to be
read by the helpless.

Go ahead and take a look at a couple of pages.

But maybe you don't want to. These are ideas that
bite.

Then come back and read Gabriel's whole essay.