How does suffering make you a better person? ( Archived) (28)

Suffering as such is not a value; only man’s fight against suffering, is. If you choose to help a man who suffers, do it only on the ground of his virtues, of his fight to recover, of his rational record, or of the fact that he suffers unjustly; then your action is still a trade, and his virtue is the payment for your help. But to help a man who has no virtues, to help him on the ground of his suffering as such, to accept his faults, his need, as a claim—is to accept the mortgage of a zero on your values.

For the New Intellectual

Galt’s Speech,

It's a double edged sword as just as a hard life can give endurance it can also have people murder those who never did a days work in their life, go hunting the untermensch woe to the bottom 20% of the gene pool.

I would not bank on the mercy of those who feel themselves to be unlucky. If you are a scumbag then you better hope that whoever deals with you regards themselves as being lucky.

The all important question is, do you feel lucky? But lucky is not quite the same thing as privilege, a person can be privileged their whole life and feel hard done by. And the opposite can be the case. To be treated alright can feel like Christmas to those who have beared the heaviest burdens.

And for this reason those born in the 1940s were kings amongst men. Life's been very good to them but not the first ten years of that life and that held them in good stead to appreciate life. No expectations meet the new reality of a world moving into sunlit uplands.

Generation zergling are the opposite. To have been that spoilt up until about ten for a future that is nothing to shout about. To encounter everything fortunate about life early on but face a future where the opposite is the case. Great expectations meet the new reality of a dying western world.

The people born in the 1940s come at life like a people who survived cancer as youths.

Youth today is/was not at all prepared for pandemics and wars, recessions and bankruptcy and the horrors of an aging population attempting to do an industrial revolution where nobody knows what the hell they are doing it's so complex. To go from such privilege to the abyss of a new dark age that is industrially revolting against the concept of a society where people know what they're doing. What's happening now is far worse than lead poisoning, we'll fondly remember the days of lead poisoning once we all need new eyeballs and a finger transplant thanks to grandad's skynet. I have sympathy for the luddites in this new century where the educated may as well be a voodoo witch doctor. The educated are not rationally capable of comprehension of the world and how it works, no it's a secular moral education about trans where presumably the only intelligence will be artificial intelligence. And what do we then? Let the machine takeover or keep our backward and incompetent authorities who pretend to understand the things they know nothing about? Neither option is attractive but there will come serious thoughts of putting the machine in charge. There has to be something we could respect as a wise elder, some authority you can trust to know what it's talking about when no human being actually does. Today's authorities are just people walking into rooms and saying things, a great swizzle to provide work.