Everything Is F*cked

Chapter 6 The Formula of Humanity Depending on your perspective, the philosopher Immanuel Kant was either the m ...

Kant was an intellectual powerhouse. If Thinking Brains had biceps, Kant’s Thinking Brain was the ...

extremely angry. And two, angry mothers suck; they scold you and punish you. That day, much like t ...

parents and they’ll treat you well; share with your siblings and they’ll share with you. These new values a ...

constituted by simply what gives pleasure and what avoids pain. Susie likes chocolate. She is afraid of do ...

How to Be an Adult When you google “how to be an adult,” most of the results focus on preparing for job inte ...

bargaining for validation, approval, and satisfaction. Becoming an adult is therefore developing the ...

There are plenty of grown-ass children in the world. And there are a lot of aging adolescents. Hell, there ...

abused child also does not develop beyond his pain- and pleasure-driven values because his ...

someone to love is by loving him. And you don’t force the love or trust or respect on him—after all, ...

AS . . . SELF-WORTH Narcissistic: wide swings between “I’m the best” and “I’m the worst” Other-dependent: ext ...

also caved to the flawed nature of all human institutions. When you attempt to barter for happiness, you ...

purpose, is the only force in the known universe that can propagate itself, that can spread its intell ...

star next to your name; otherwise you aren’t truly being honest. Kant summed up these unconditional ...

behaviors that are good for their own sake. Honesty is good in and of itself because it’s the only form ...

self-respect. Telling ourselves that we are worthless and shitty is just as wrong as telling others that th ...

subverts the religion of democracy with some other, likely less virtuous, religion . . . and p ...

Chapter 7 Pain Is the Universal Constant One by one, the researchers shuttled the subjects down a hall and ...

Okay, big deal, right? People mis-see stuff all the time. And besides, when you’re staring at dots for hours ...

threats, the more we will see them, regardless of how safe or comfortable our environment actually is. And ...