Self-Awareness Is Key

"The Consciousness of the Unaware Individual"

   Growing up in the 21st century and saying that we have it so easy is one substantial understatement; information in mere seconds, food and a car ride in minutes, anything you could ever desire brought right there on your doorstep in a matter of moments. But amidst everything that we have, there is a saying that continues to echo within in loud volumes:

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“Tough men produce good times, good times produce weak men, weak men produce hard times, hard times produce tough men.”

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    Kindly direct your attention to the second part of that sentence, good times produce weak men; the ubiquity of cancel culture, safe-spaces, and “inclusive zones”—especially in North America—is impressive, it’s almost praiseworthy. But there is one characteristic that should be instilled into every young man and woman, one that would abruptly end (if not radically diminish) the prevalence of this writhing notion of an Orwellian world in our society: self-awareness.

    Mankind has always been extremely irrational, this is quite flagrant in Robert Greene’s book The Laws of Human Nature, wherein he pulls significant anecdotes from history in order to portray this aspect of our cognition. No human being can ever mitigate from his own irrationality completely, but one can acknowledge it while letting it go altogether, so this is not the problem; the problem is that the ability to acknowledge and let go of an irrational idea instead of anthropomorphizing it, is slowly disappearing in our society.

    Imagine having to submit a rather paramount literature, one that would be read by millions upon millions of persons—and disgracefully meeting that standard with the submission of a non-edited first draft. This is precisely what one does when tweeting out their own ill-fabricated opinions without revision; when recording a video wherein one makes a court jester out of themselves for the sake of acquiring clout (this one, I’m guilty of); when having a conversation and while the other party is verbalizing their thoughts or answering a question, the opposing already has a thousand ideas ready to explode outward like a cannon. Do we no longer perceive this as asininity? Are we that much clouded by our own egos that neither ourselves nor our friends are able to call daftness when we see it fit?

    This developing, creeping conception of an Orwellian society has two sides to its equation: one being our own personas falling prey to its own folly and not being able to catch such behavior, the other being that society not only condone such pathology, but egregiously glorifies it. The only way to fix a societal problem, is to fix one’s self first; for who the hell are you to give advice to the world, if you can’t even clean your own room? Shout out to Jordan Peterson ☺

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"The best way to fix the world, if there ever was one, is to fix yourself."

—Dr. Jordan Peterson