How To Stop Being A Pretentious Fuck
What's up gang?
Social media has always been a dangerous place to break my self-imposed intellectual segregation. I come unintentionally in contact with all kinds of plebian masses. How do you know you've entered the realm of median genetic predisposition? You are bombarded with virtue signalling, hollier-than-thou behaviour and entitlement.
You Can Be The Biggest Asshole In The World, The Biggest Slut, The Most Annoying Sleezy Salesman, A Worthless Motivational Speaker. As Long As You Have Authenticity, I Have No Problem
That's what's missing from our society. Authenticity. The internet made it possible to have a digital life, where you can be whoever you want, without having to pay your dues or the consequences for that matter.
People who fall for this, are either young and unexperienced or old and failures. Both of these groups pretend to be something they're not, to feed their need for social validation. It's natural to want to be liked and admired, especially when you're young.
What is not natural is to pretend to be someone else in such a large scale (social media) in order to receive that validation.
You end up creating this fake persona that lives inside you. You develop a second stream of conscious thought that as time goes by, erodes your true identity.
Eventually, you end up with a schism between reality and fantasy. Your true personality shutters in a million pieces. Death by a thousand cuts.
When you step out of your house and you realize that "Hey, that guy I pretend to be online isn't real, whoops", you get down from the high, hard.
You've become addicted to being fake. You have become dependent.
The guy posting motivational quotes on his wall, claiming he's "making moves in the shadows" or the girl having her ego stroke by 1000 creepy guys or someone claiming is a"player" or a fake millionaire or a market savant (we have a lot of those in steemit).
God forbid they believe their own bullshit. Real life will smack them in the face so fast they'll think they work in a whorehouse.
Leave Your Ivory Tower. The Only Thing You Need Is Authenticity
Because that's what you really have to offer in this poor world. If you are not yourself, then you are a figment of someone else's expectations.
No matter how louzy and miserable your life is, no one really gives a fuck. That's the beauty of being a nobody. But let me tell you a secret... unless you are some kind of A-list celebrity, people REALLY don't care that much.
Being a pretentious fuck is a recipe for making really bad choices. Have you heard of the 30k per year millionaires? The people who buy flashy crap to impress strangers, but they are one paycheck away from financial ruin.
Anyway, I rambling away. I will leave you with one last thing:
Do you know what charisma means? "He/She is charismatic. Raw magnetism". If you search for this word on google or youtube, you will find 1000s of videos on how to develop charisma. Here's a secret. Charisma is being authentic to yourself no matter what. But that takes some guts...
That's it. Finnito. It's a beautiful Saturday. Go out and have some fun. Have a drink, flirt and make a fool of yourself. Go out and live.
-Thatredbeardguy
Step 1: don't publish this post.
Step 2: see step one.
Thank you for gracing us with your void comment kiddo!
Thank you for giving me a reason to flag you.
You flagged me, because I called you out on an agressive comment that you made on MY post. And then you upvoted yourself, because you were mad. Seems legit!
Yep, and I'll do it again too.
I flagged you because you were being stupid at my making a joke on your post. If you couldnt see that then that's your problem snowflake.
Damn...
Truth bombs dropped...
I've got the nuclear codes.
how did you get your post to the top of reddit.com/r/steemit is no one moderating? Strange.
We should all be posting on that reddit man! Good job taking use of the official steemit subreddit you got an upvote from me out of it! Https://reddit.com/r/steemit
I am a hacker.
Nah, usually my posts get auto-downvoted cause of profanity in my titles, but this one got through the cracks I guess.
But... but what about "you can be anything you want to be" and similar folklore? Surely if I will believe hard and long enough one day I will wake up in a palace. Best horses. Millions of servants. My own yachts. Hottest girls in the world fighting each other for a honor of sucking my cock. I just need to believe and this will all come true. Right? RIGHT?
Well, you CAN be anything you want to be. What most fail to realize is that what they want to be wasn't their choices.
BTW am I a pervert for reading "best horses sucking my cock"?
So you are saying that I actually have to DO something MYSELF and just believing is not enough? Mhh. Thanks bunches...
I am not even that kinky so I will take the girls. But I think that the word "pervert" has different meaning for different people. I seem to recall seeing it an article about sex in public. If you can even call inside of a car in the woods public... But apparently it is public so what do I know. I would use that word to describe rapists, pedophiles or other people who use violence to harm their victims. I don't think that having a bit of dirty mind is enough to qualify for that title.
Nah, these people are just sick, regardless their sexual appetite, but I get your point.
Do you know what else takes some guts?
Writing this kind of articles under your real name 😇!
Good writing though, have my ¢.
I agree. But I don't really care to prove anything.