try to memorize the main points here


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I know it's Wikidiot, but it's good enough for general purposes. All this mindfuck in every direction makes it necessary to thoroughly understand and internalize that this is one particularly ugly aspect of human psychology that is likely to demoralize you to death if you don't get right on top of it and stay there. Okay?

There are a LOT of dirt stupid people who can parrot pundits and go on acting smugly intellectual about it longer than you can stay alive in their proximity. Don't let them make you doubt your own powers of discernment! We need your clarity and strength and heart.

DO. NOT. FORGET. THAT.


pipe up any time....