If there’s no love, what’s the reason to live? What’s that?..’learn to love yourself’? Being human contradicts that.
Even nature would agree we are selfish. Willing to suck the life out of all things, demand everything serve a purpose. It’s slightly terrifying.
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love yourself? That would be narcissism, a mental illness. We don’t need to love ourselves, we need to understand that however society judges us, we’re all the same: we all just woke up in a body. Different cards, same game, different rules but not really
Deep down narcissists hate themselves, it’s why they show contempt for all human beings. It’s like denial. Sadly. I agree we need to see society is fake, it creates illusion that divides us… it creates a setting that nurtures narcissism. To be human is to be vulnerable, to be vulnerable is to love(oneself and others as we are similar deep down).. narcissists resents these vulnerabilitys. Let’s not be narcissists, whilst we are still alive we should resist narcissistic tendancies x
The people who seem the happiest have the scariest demons hiding in their closets. The people who say to learn to love yourself are secretly talking to themselves.
You’re right…. The ones who seem to actively fit in, or have the seemingly happiest lives hold the biggest secrets(whether it’s sadness or something dark). It’s weird… everything is backwards. People look at life through a mirror and with a huge amount of narcissism in society, we all get treated as extensions of each others egos.
Well love doesnt exist. Attraction does. Then theres the dopamine system that incites this feeling of love. Over time, we get addicted to the good feelings that we anchor to a specific person or thing. Another selfish addiction. Thats it, thats all. Thats nature.
I guess everything we do is governed by what brings us a dopamine hit. And associations can be built with anything, say… being in a position of power over others. Or something as small as using social media. Or drugs. Or food. Or helping others… because we are not altruistic beings.
That has always been my view of love as well. Simple psychological conditioning with dopamine as the reward. A couple of other things this brought to mind.
Psychological egoism is the view that humans are always motivated by self-interest, even in what seem to be acts of altruism. It claims that, when people choose to help others, they do so ultimately because of the personal benefits that they themselves expect to obtain, directly or indirectly, from doing so.
psychological hedonism, the view that the ultimate motive for all voluntary human action is the desire to experience pleasure or to avoid pain.
I would definitely agree that humans are inherently selfish. That love the way most people define it yea that probably doesn’t exist. Especially unconditional love.