whatishope
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- May 29, 2025
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Hello everyone. I just came back from holiday, and I spent a lot of the time I was on the road reading philosophy. One of the books I had with me was "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche. The book is really hard to read and understand. If I am honest, the guy is a really bad writer. But, his ideas are spot on. I want to quote my favorite part of it so far:
76. Under peaceful conditions, the militant man attacks himself.
82. "Sympathy for all" - would be harshness and tyranny for tee, my good neighbour.
I think these two quotes were the point for me when my mind snapped. I realised, that there is always two ways of looking at things, and the same situation can be interpreted completely differently from these two "modes" (as I like to call them).
Mode 1 I like to call victim mode. This is a mode (frame of mind, way of thinking) that is based in weakness. Mode 2 I like to call honour mode. This is a mode that is based in strength. I can explain this in the following way:
Suppose you finish work and get home. You are home alone. You have no friends to call. You make some food. It's pretty bland. You scroll your phone, you see the news: war in the middle east, climate change wreaking havoc. Floods in 3 countries. Snowstorm somewhere. Real estate crisis at any minute now in another country. How do you react based on each mode?
1. Victim mode would be something like this: the world is fucked, things are getting worse and worse. The economy is not doing good, I might lose my job soon. If I lose my job i am fucked, I don't know where to find another one. I don't have any friends and in the current situation people don't have time to make friends. I don't have the money to date. Screw it, it's over, I will CTB.
2. Honour mode in contrast would like this: The world is falling apart again, on the news. Fuck these people, why do they keep talking about distant countries? I don't live there. I live over here. This is not my problem, so I will stop reading this. The economy is shit, I might lose my job, but today I did some good work, so I should be safe for a bit now. Maybe I can sign-up for an online course to learn a bit of this new AI thing, in case I need to find new work. That could be a good place to look for friends as well, I am probably not the only one struggling in this shit. Speaking of shit, I read that a lot of people are lonely, and poor as well. I wonder where these people would be looking to date thats cheap. park? maybe supermarket. Dunno, time to check it out.
The very same situation, that in one frame of mind seems hopeless can be made to look quite managable, even exciting, by adding a bit of mind twist to it. I am now playing around myself with what I call "honour mode" as well as continuing with the book. I will post more about this for sure. If anyone else is interested in this, I highly recommend the book, but, be warned, it's a pretty dry read.
76. Under peaceful conditions, the militant man attacks himself.
82. "Sympathy for all" - would be harshness and tyranny for tee, my good neighbour.
I think these two quotes were the point for me when my mind snapped. I realised, that there is always two ways of looking at things, and the same situation can be interpreted completely differently from these two "modes" (as I like to call them).
Mode 1 I like to call victim mode. This is a mode (frame of mind, way of thinking) that is based in weakness. Mode 2 I like to call honour mode. This is a mode that is based in strength. I can explain this in the following way:
Suppose you finish work and get home. You are home alone. You have no friends to call. You make some food. It's pretty bland. You scroll your phone, you see the news: war in the middle east, climate change wreaking havoc. Floods in 3 countries. Snowstorm somewhere. Real estate crisis at any minute now in another country. How do you react based on each mode?
1. Victim mode would be something like this: the world is fucked, things are getting worse and worse. The economy is not doing good, I might lose my job soon. If I lose my job i am fucked, I don't know where to find another one. I don't have any friends and in the current situation people don't have time to make friends. I don't have the money to date. Screw it, it's over, I will CTB.
2. Honour mode in contrast would like this: The world is falling apart again, on the news. Fuck these people, why do they keep talking about distant countries? I don't live there. I live over here. This is not my problem, so I will stop reading this. The economy is shit, I might lose my job, but today I did some good work, so I should be safe for a bit now. Maybe I can sign-up for an online course to learn a bit of this new AI thing, in case I need to find new work. That could be a good place to look for friends as well, I am probably not the only one struggling in this shit. Speaking of shit, I read that a lot of people are lonely, and poor as well. I wonder where these people would be looking to date thats cheap. park? maybe supermarket. Dunno, time to check it out.
The very same situation, that in one frame of mind seems hopeless can be made to look quite managable, even exciting, by adding a bit of mind twist to it. I am now playing around myself with what I call "honour mode" as well as continuing with the book. I will post more about this for sure. If anyone else is interested in this, I highly recommend the book, but, be warned, it's a pretty dry read.
