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 - **[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).
 - **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 givin in to a comfort of a lie -- or shall we say a kind of [blue pill](blue_pill.md)? Actually 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, ...".
+- **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.
 - **[Don't argue with retards](cant_argue_with_idiot.md)** with the goal of convincing him or winning the argument so that you feel good (the meaning of retard here is simply someone disagreeing with LRS). It's literally wasted time/energy and it's bad for your mental health, it leads nowhere and achieves nothing but make your more suicidal than you already are. You literally can NOT convince anyone who is not open to being convinced, it is impossible, even if you have 100000 mathematical proofs, real world evidence, literature supporting you and anything you can imagine, you cannot logically convince someone who doesn't know how logic works or someone who simply emotionally isn't ready to change his mind. In 99.999999999999999% cases you can tell if it's worth to talk to someone after his first reaction -- you present an idea, such as LRS, and if he just expresses disagreement, there is no point in communicating further, by the disagreement he has taken a defensive stance and will hold it for the rest of his life now, you have to go find someone else. NO, not even if he's an "intellectual", has PhD and thirty Nobel Prizes, if he doesn't wanna see the truth, you cannot help him. As it's been said, trying to argue with an idiot is like trying to win a chess game against a pidgeon -- even if you're the world chess champion, the pidgeon will just shit on the board and think it's won. If you spot a retard, just leave -- don't try to have the last word or anything, even admit him "victory" in the argument and leave him in his world of delusion where he is the unappreciated Einstein, just do not waste an extra second on him, just leave and go do something better. { So many such idiots I have met I can't even count it -- pure stupid peasant aren't even that bad, the wost are the "above average" intelligence reddit atheists who think they're smart. I literally had such people argue like "you like games therefore competition in society is good because games are part of society therefore society equals competition". Truly I'm not sure if those bastards are just trolling me into suicide or are really so fucking dumb :D ~drummyfish }
 - Similarly **avoid [toxic](toxic.md) communities**, don't argue, just leave, it's better to be alone than in bad company. Basically anything with a [COC](coc.md), language filter, SJW vibe, rainbow etc. isn't even worth checking out.
-- **Be a [generalist](generalism.md), see the big picture, study the whole world, educate yourself** -- "tantum possumus quantum scimus", what we can do is given by what we know. Do not become overspecialized in the capitalist way. Sure you may become an expert at something, but not for the price of making your view of the world too narrow. You may spend most of your time studying and programming computer compilers for example, but still do (and enjoy) other things, for example reading fiction, studying religions, languages, psychology, playing [go](go.md), making music, building houses, painting, doing sports, ... Learn to enjoy to educate yourself! Education (not necessarily formal) is one of the most valuable things you can get -- no one can take it away from you, it makes you see truth more clearly and though this itself makes you more depressed, it also frees you in many ways, for example knowing languages enables you to read more books and live in more places and talk to more people and you can get a comfy job as a translator if you need money, knowing chess makes you able to entertain yourself without a computer, knowing programming enables you to write your own programs if good ones aren't available, and so on. Education makes you see through other people's lies. It is fine to be retarded, remain ignorant and just play video games all days, your value as a living being will lower that way, but you will forever remain among the retarded majority manipulated by the tides of society, even if you have good opinions and correct views, you'll stay just another retard, you won't be able to help others, you'll be paralyzed, leaving the burden and joy of helping the world on others -- just decide if that is what you want. Have you always admired that someone can play a piano? Why not learn it then? Get some cheap keyboard and make it a habit to practice playing it at least 20 minutes every other day, see how good you become in a year. Were you always bad at chemistry? Why not fix it a bit? Get some chemistry for dummies book and read it every day before sleep, you will go from absolute chemistry retard to well above average soon. You can learn about start constelations, biology, history, train card games, memorize pi digits, run half marathon, learn juggling, write your own small book etcetc. A nice life hack is to **see life as an RPG game**, see yourself as a character you are improving, by improving skills you are unlocking new abilities, enabling new options, increasing your stats -- however be very careful to not become competitive or fall victim to the ["self-improvement" cult](productivity_cult.md)! The key is to not start comparing yourself to other, or rather to not have it as a goal to be better than someone else, the goal should be just your happiness of becoming a higher level living entity that has more abilities for helping other, enjoy the universe and so on. **Learn as much as you can while you're young**, when you're older it will get much harder and sometimes near impossible to learn something well; at young age you have bonus XP in the life RPG game, make as much use of it as possible.
+- **Be a [generalist](generalism.md), see the big picture, study the whole world, educate yourself** -- specialization is for insects. Do not become overspecialized in the capitalist way. Sure you may become an expert at something, but not for the price of making your view of the world too narrow. You may spend most of your time studying and programming computer compilers for example, but still do (and enjoy) other things, for example reading fiction, studying religions, languages, psychology, playing [go](go.md), making music, building houses, painting, doing sports, ... Learn to enjoy to educate yourself! Education (not necessarily formal) is one of the most valuable things you can get -- no one can take it away from you, it makes you see truth more clearly and though this itself makes you more depressed, it also frees you in many ways, for example knowing languages enables you to read more books and live in more places and talk to more people and you can get a comfy job as a translator if you need money, knowing chess makes you able to entertain yourself without a computer, knowing programming enables you to write your own programs if good ones aren't available, and so on. Education makes you see through other people's lies. It is fine to be retarded, remain ignorant and just play video games all days, your value as a living being will lower that way, but you will forever remain among the retarded majority manipulated by the tides of society, even if you have good opinions and correct views, you'll stay just another retard, you won't be able to help others, you'll be paralyzed, leaving the burden and joy of helping the world on others -- just decide if that is what you want. Have you always admired that someone can play a piano? Why not learn it then? Get some cheap keyboard and make it a habit to practice playing it at least 20 minutes every other day, see how good you become in a year. Were you always bad at chemistry? Why not fix it a bit? Get some chemistry for dummies book and read it every day before sleep, you will go from absolute chemistry retard to well above average soon. You can learn about start constelations, biology, history, train card games, memorize pi digits, run half marathon, learn juggling, write your own small book etcetc. A nice life hack is to **see life as an RPG game**, see yourself as a character you are improving, by improving skills you are unlocking new abilities, enabling new options, increasing your stats -- however be very careful to not become competitive or fall victim to the ["self-improvement" cult](productivity_cult.md)! The key is to not start comparing yourself to other, or rather to not have it as a goal to be better than someone else, the goal should be just your happiness of becoming a higher level living entity that has more abilities for helping other, enjoy the universe and so on. **Learn as much as you can while you're young**, when you're older it will get much harder and sometimes near impossible to learn something well; at young age you have bonus XP in the life RPG game, make as much use of it as possible.
 - **Limit your meat consumption**. If you can, become [vegetarian](vegetarianism.md) or even [vegan](veganism.md); if you can't go as far it will still be awesome if you just reduce meat consumption to let's say once or twice per week. Purpose of this isn't physical health, it's avoiding harm to other living beings -- consider that a living being who could live a long, happy life has to die just for you to have a few slightly tastier meals. Just don't do that. If you are still worried about negative effects of vegetarianism on your health, know that eating too much meat is probably more dangerous than eating no meat, AND if you eat meat every day, you are already eating too much of it, humans aren't built for that -- until very recently meat was kind of a luxury and people ate it only on special days, so reducing your meat consumption will likely improve your health. { I personally knew two butchers who basically had to have meat in every meal, one had a heart attack before the age of 30, the other one died in his 40s. Again, we choose vegetarianism for ethical reasons, but if your argument is health, it's probably not a good argument. ~drummyfish }
 - **Don't become a [tool slave](tool_slave.md).**
 - **Stop just bitching around and DO SOMETHING** -- don't get this wrong, bitching around and ranting is great, this whole wiki is just one huge wall of rage bitching, however if it's all you do, it literally achieves nothing, it won't convince a single man, no one will read that shit, you are just wasting huge part of your life by being angry on the Internet. First thing you have to do is DO SOMETHING, e.g. if you promote minimalism, go and make a minimalist game, show others it works, prove (even to yourself) the thing you believe in is good, bitching about the world is only to come as a supplement to your main work -- your rants aren't there to convince anyone, your art does that, your writings are there for the people who are already convinced to help them educate themselves further. Consider this: you may spend whole life writing 100 books about how minimalism is awesome, you may examine the whole history in detail, provide mathematical proofs of everything and suggest a completely working system that could be established to solve all the problems in the world -- no one is going to read this. Literally not a single man will give a shit. On the other hand you can take a year to program a minimalist operating system, one that is 1000 times smaller than Linux and is 10 times faster and is completely public domain and basically rapes Linux in every other way, you just post that somewhere and people just can't ignore it, you put before their eyes something they can literally see is infinitely better than what was there before, you instantly get thousands of people hooked and they start creating more art like this. You just changed the world significant for the better in just one year. Note this isn't an argument for chasing popularity at all, on the contrary, your actions will likely contradict the popular and even cause a lot of hate, however realize that words are just words, there are too many words everywhere, words can lie and they never achieve anything by themselves, good is achieved and proven by actions.
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 - **NEVER, NEVER go into debt**: Even if you should live under a bridge, if you aren't in debt you're still good -- better than most people probably. Debt is how the system enslaves you, so never take any loans or make unplanned children you would be obliged to pay for etc., it will force you to bow to the system, take unethical jobs, forget your morals. If you're already in debt, make it number one priority to pay it off ASAP. If you're in debt that would take too long or forever to pay off, your only option is just to burn your ID and run off to the woods, the system will now see you as a free slave, someone who can be forced to labor without sleep or just killed, you can no longer rely on any help from it.
 - PRO TIP: A great [heuristic](heuristic.md) for making life decisions is to **usually do the exact opposite of what the society tells you to do** -- it works because society only wants to exploit you, so it pushes you towards bad decisions. This doesn't hold always, of course, don't just blindly act in opposites (there may be "double bluffs" also..., but mostly there aren't as most people just follow direct orders), but it's a good decision helper in about 99% cases. For example if society tells you "increase your social media presence", you should really completely leave social media, if it tells you "boost your carrier", you should stop working, if it tells you "go vote", you shouldn't go vote etcetc.
 - PRO TIP: **Get yourself [banned](ban.md) on toxic platforms** like [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md), [GitHub](github.md), [Steam](steam.md), [4chan](4chan.md) etcetc., it has many advantages -- you gain [freedom](freedom.md) (no longer having to care about platform you are banned on), the platform loses one user/slave (you), you stop being abused by the platform, it's also [fun](fun.md) (just find some creative way to get banned, possibly cause uprising on the platform, make mods angry and waste their time on cleaning up your mess), it will make you become more self sufficient and you help decentralize the Internet again (can't edit Wikipedia? Just make your own :-]), it will make you find better places, you may also help bring the toxic platform down (others will see the platform utilizes censorship, some may follow you in leaving...) etcetc.
- **Do NOT rely on a non-profit or other organization to make the world better for you. Act yourself, NOW.** It may be cool to support an organization that does some good, sure, but any organization is only a very minor helper on YOUR personal way to making the world better. Whether it's [FSF](fsf.md), [GNU](gnu.md), [EFF](eff.md), [Creative Commons](creative_commons.md) or anything else, they are not the saviors, the world can only be changed by YOU starting to actively CREATE ART and ACT as a good living being because good society is only that in which people stop relying on such organizations and start to live independently. Doing anything else than starting to act right now is absolutely pointless, on the contrary shit like wearing "I support GNU" t-shirt and signing online petitions gives you a false sense of doing something, an excuse to do nothing and feel good about it -- that's how capitalism keeps people from acting, you consume product and feel like you're a hero. Make radical actions -- if you can't find good software, WRITE IT YOURSELF NOW, stop waiting for someone to do it for you. If you hate your life, quit your job immediately and go live in the jungle RIGHT NOW, ditch your cellphone, start building your own hut out of mud, you have to fkn do something else it's never gonna happen.
+ **Do NOT rely on a [non-profit](non_profit.md) or other organization to make the world better for you. Act yourself, NOW.** It may be cool to support an organization that does some good, sure, but any organization is only a very minor helper on YOUR personal way to making the world better. Whether it's [FSF](fsf.md), [GNU](gnu.md), [EFF](eff.md), [Creative Commons](creative_commons.md) or anything else, they are not the saviors, the world can only be changed by YOU starting to actively CREATE ART and ACT as a good living being because good society is only that in which people stop relying on such organizations and start to live independently. Doing anything else than starting to act right now is absolutely pointless, on the contrary shit like wearing "I support GNU" t-shirt and signing online petitions gives you a false sense of doing something, an excuse to do nothing and feel good about it -- that's how capitalism keeps people from acting, you consume product and feel like you're a hero. Make radical actions -- if you can't find good software, WRITE IT YOURSELF NOW, stop waiting for someone to do it for you. If you hate your life, quit your job immediately and go live in the jungle RIGHT NOW, ditch your cellphone, start building your own hut out of mud, you have to fkn do something else it's never gonna happen.
 - **Accept [death](death.md)** -- no, don't kill yourself, just accept death will come, maybe tomorrow, maybe in one hour, for you or for anyone you love, everything you ever made will become dirt. Constantly live with thought of death and get comfortable about it, you have to be ready to die at any moment and stop being too adraid of it, then you become really [free](freedom.md). Nowadays most people have panic fear of death which is similar to e.g. having panic phobia of germs -- no one wants go get sick, but if you're so gravely scared of catching any disease, you're enslaved, crippled, your life is limited, you can't do what you'd like to do. With death it's the same: try to live but don't let death scare you so much as to limit you in what you can say or do. Take a look at men who firmly stood behind their beliefs such as [Einstein](einstein.md), Seneca or Socrates, they all accepted death when it came and took it even if they could have avoided it; they are examples of highest mental freedom. Again, do NOT fucking kill yourself, that's a bad idea, just be ready for death and don't get dreadfully scared of it, it's not far away, it is probably just behind the next corner. { Regularly watching gore videos helps with this a bit. ~drummyfish }
 - **Try (almost) everything**: getting experience, even unpleasant one, is good. We won't advise you to try dangerous things so that you can't sue us, but it's not bad to have been through hardships, voluntarily or not. Firstly it helps you build the big picture view -- if you know what it's like to do hard manual work as well as suffer stressful intellectual work, if you know what it's like to feel great physical or mental pain, to be hungry, very fat or skinny, alone, popular and hated, abused and so on, you'll have more empathy, you'll know how people feel and you'll see through probaganda that paints you a distorted picture of what things are like, experience and pain make you wiser and also more loving. Don't risk your health or hurt yourself too much, but maybe don't be scared of taking a blow. Secondly this conveniently makes normies shut up because they can no longer use their favorite arguments (which are invalid but they will still use them) like "u cant citicize this if u havent tried it lolooololol!!!!!" and "loloolol have u even ever done X lol? then u cant talk about it" -- usually normie lives in a world of dichotomies like "you are either an intellectual or work manually", if you've done both his brain just freezes and he's like "ummmm but... but that cant... wait... so u say... mmmm... fuk u i have to go now".
 - **If you need to rest then fucking rest**, don't be a [productivist](productivity_cult.md) pussy, take as much time as you need before you feel like doing anything, it's okay.