/lit/ - Literature

>>15427803
*sip from coffe cup*
The moment you realize that the vast majority of people aren't actually real you'll start to feel better.
And by real I mean observant and sincere to themselves. So many exist through a veil that reaches over their perception and they stop seeing themselves in and of themselves and even others. This has been true throughout time but it's specifically prelevant during contemporary times as so many are now practising a form of existing outside of themselves, mostly through monitoring themselves and organising their behavior to fit the current standard. Because of so much media we now have a sort of hyper-outsideness that has been going on for more than a decade now.
When people don't split their perception between mind and everything else outside of them they get stuck inside a sort of self observing unconcious loop where they exist within word and image-pointers and their values.
What this eventually leads to are life sucking slugs attatching to their feet as they drink wine and do whatever mundane thing they do like playing some old retro game that someone in an article wrote about being good.
Lets take a very basic example from a conversation about environmentalism. Person B begins with virtue signalling, saying they've just bought an electric car and continues speaking about how everything is fucked up because we as a people need to start caring more about the environment. Person A answers with agreement, saying that we should stop producing so much and buying so much junk and new stuff when the previous object that gave the needed function isn't broken. Person B awkwardly agrees but buys a new phone every single year, lives from paycheck to paycheck and has a vast amount of blu-rays and plastic merchandise. If they get confronted about that they simply answer that they enjoy it and they're not harming anyone.
Person B isn't real, person B exists completely within an outside observation of their own meat vessel where they just virtue signal on the social plane and then fills the void by buying junk. They are nothing other than a simple machine that goes after social plasticity.
If you truly practice yourself and split yourself between mind and world you have one of the best people with you at all times and you'll be able to notice the people who are real and those who are not. Similar interest really has little to do about it, one just needs to be interested.