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by watwut 640 days ago
> People spend hours engaging in “activism” on the internet that feels good inside but accomplishes nothing. The feeling of false accomplishment feeds into the addiction.

Most people accomplish nothing. You go playing basketball with guys after work, you will accomplish nothing with it. You sit and read books, you are accomplishing nothing. You tend to your flowers at home and you are not actually accomplishing all that much.

Insisting on accomplishment all the time just leads to mental health problems.

> Just like a life lived like this is no life at all, a personality like this is no personality at all.

Why? Of course it is personality. It is not like the rest of us all had super special valuable personalities either. We just exist.