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 - **Try to be so that if everyone was like that, the society would be good (in agreement with [LRS](less_retarded_society.md))** -- this is a good general [rule of thumb](rule_of_thumb.md) (and as such may also possibly fail sometimes, be careful) that can help you make some difficult decisions. DO NOT confuse this advice with the ["do unto others as you would have them do unto you"](do_unto_others.md) aka ["golden" rule](golden_rule.md) advice, that is indeed a [shitty](shit.md) one, supposing everyone likes the same things, i.e. for example a man who enjoys being [raped](rape.md) is advised here to go and rape others -- that's of course bad.
 - **Do NOT support [pseudoleft](pseudoleft.md) ([LGBT](lgbt.md), [feminism](feminism.md), [Antifa](antifa.md), [soyence](soyence.md) ...)**, don't become [type A fail](fail_ab.md). Of course you should equally reject [rightism](right.md), but that goes without saying.
 - **[Free](freedom.md) yourself from the system** (and generally from as many things as possible) -- similarly to how you free yourself technologically, free yourself also socially, live [frugally](minimalism.md) and minimize your expenses. Stop consuming, stop living in luxury, stop spending money for shit (gyms, sports, clothes, car, streaming services, games, cigarettes, ...), use free things that people throw away and enjoy hobbies that are cheap (programming, reading books, going for walks, playing chess, collecting [rocks](rock.md), ...). **Stop watching news** (it's just brainwashing and distraction, what's really important will get to you anyway), stop engaging in fashion, stop talking to retards and watching tiktok manipulators. You need very little to live, you don't even need internet connection; with good computing you can hack offline and only connect to the internet once in a while on some public wifi to download emails and upload your programs. **Stop using [cellphone](phone.md)** (if you need it e.g. for banking, just use it for banking and don't carry it around with you, don't make it something you need with you). **Stop watching post 2010 media**, avoid all new movies, series, music, books, they are all just propaganda by now which gives you brain cancer and makes you an NPC, isolate yourself from anything [modern](modern.md), look for the old stuff. Make yourself self sufficient, prepare for the [collapse](collapase.md). If you can live somewhere in the woods and would enjoy it, go for it.
-- **Adopt [defeatism](defeatism.md) and pessimism**; [optimism](optimism.md) is a harmful opium of the people, it makes you shut your eyes before suffering of others, an optimist is susceptible to fear and allows himself to be manipulated by [fear culture](fear_culture.md), learn to be [pessimistic](pessimism.md) instead -- abandoning "winner mentality" will stop you from engaging in [fight culture](fight_culture.md) and makes you free to behave morally, it turns on your empathy and allows you to be objective in your judgment (you will no longer fear seeing the truth), you will seize to be a an inhuman robot and slave of bullshit necessary for winning the capitalist game, you'll no longer be serving [capitalism](capitalism.md).
+- **Adopt [defeatism](defeatism.md), do NOT adopt and [optimism](optimism.md)**; [optimism](optimism.md) is a harmful opium of the people, it makes you shut your eyes before suffering of others, an [optimist](optimism.md) is susceptible to fear and allows himself to be manipulated by [fear culture](fear_culture.md), learn to be a [cynic](cynicism.md) instead -- abandoning "winner mentality" will stop you from engaging in [fight culture](fight_culture.md) and makes you free to behave morally, it turns on your empathy and allows you to be objective in your judgment (you will no longer fear seeing the truth), you will seize to be a an inhuman robot and slave of bullshit necessary for winning the capitalist game, you'll no longer be serving [capitalism](capitalism.md).
 - **Search for the [truth](truth.md)**. You won't find it easily, real truth is always censored and hidden (though often in plain sight), but you can train yourself to spot propaganda and see the red flags. You won't find truth through Google, use different sources, read old books, [encyclopedias](encyclopedia.md) and different points of view (e.g. contrast articles on [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md) with those on [Infogalactic](infogalactic.md)). Learn foreign and old langages such as [Latin](latin.md) so that you can read untranslated and first hand historical accounts. **Question EVERYTHING** (absolutely everything, even this statement). Do not fall into traps such as [pseudoskepticism](pseudoskepticism.md). Train your mind to think critically, avoid [shortcut thinking](shortcut_thinking.md), question your own biased beliefs and wishes.
 - **Stop bullshitting yourself, admit your weaknesses and mistakes even if you can't stop making them.** In the quest for seeing truthful image of the world it's very important to start with self and stop lying to oneself. Everyone makes mistakes, everyone is imperfect and weak in one way or another and often we are forced to stay imperfect, or simply not strong enough to stop doing something we know is bad -- trying to become better is important, but it's equally important to not get devastated by the fact that perfection can't be achieved. Normies psychologically deal with this using the following harmful pattern: *if it's bad but can't be fixed, find excuse for why it's actually good*. Often for example supporters of [free software](free_software.md) make a mental exception to allow themselves to play those old nostalgic proprietary games because in this depressing world they simply can't live without it, they need them it like a drug -- the excuse is for example "it's not really software but more like a movie or work of art so actually it's fine it's proprietary" or something similar. Now please realize everyone has guilty pleasures or harmful habits, if it's not games then it's smoking, drinking, self harm, overeating or hoarding garbage. ADMIT IT'S NOT GOOD, even if you keep doing it: this way you are not distorting truth and actually stay in better control, you may aim to limit or reduce your harmful habits in the future if it can't be done now, you keep the door open to accepting a solution that may emerge later on instead of giving in to a comfort of a lie -- or shall we say a kind of [blue pill](blue_pill.md)? The following pattern is extremely common nowadays: people dislike the word [censorship](censorship.md) but they are forced to do it, so they rather try to redefine the word censorship so as to exclude what they're doing (see e.g. [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md)) -- if you HAVE TO do censorship, call it censorship, admit you're doing it, don't bullshit yourself and others. You'll often see abused wives think like this: the husband may be drunk beating her every day but she has no way of escaping due to taking care of children and house, so you'll hear her go to great lengths to make excuses for why he's actually "not that bad" rather than admitting she's living a nightmare, like "others have it worse, at least he doesn't gamble, he actually bought me this and this, ...".
 - **Reject harmful things like [proprietary](proprietary.md) software, [capitalism](capitalism.md), [copyright](copyright.md), [bloat](bloat.md), [work](work.md) etc.** Use and promote the ethical equivalents, i.e. [free software](free_software.md), [free culture](free_culture.md), frugality, [anarchism](anarchism.md) etc.