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Michael Tocci's avatar

The pride of the Black Pill is to think that you can live off of statistics from people who hate you. People are not made in the image of statistics. Statistics cannot be fruitful and multiply, except by infection. Corruption cannot grow except off of good flesh left to rot.

Denethor thought he could trust the Palantir, and it guided him to the sinful self-deletion of despair.

Since I have been a spectator to this spiral (several times), I can corroborate that it makes a man impotent.

One man I witnessed ingested this pill: He used to date, but then he convinced himself that he was too short to get a date (the statistics said so!). Now, he finds himself alone and unwed, compared to his brother, who is shorter than him and married.

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Kaiser Basileus's avatar

I think you confuse learned helplessness and constantly reinforced helplessness. There's no pulling yourself up by your emotional bootstraps when you have no boots.

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