What is
shame? It’s a negative emotion that most people seem to feel after doing
something “shameful”, but what is at the root of that? Why do people feel bad
after doing things -- why is this seen as a good thing rather than a weird type
of neurosis?
Shame is
the result of seeing yourself as a fundamentally good person who is making the
world a “better place” who has slipped into a negative action and thus temporarily
become a bad person. Of course, everybody who feels shame has different conceptions
of what bad people and good people are, and they view good people as being
fundamentally better than bad people.
Hidden in shame is a sense of moral superiority to others, an emotional
judgment and form of insecurity that is vain and stupid.
Shame is
not, as those who praise it, a good thing. It is something that somebody who is
too weak to follow their internal compass feels. It is glamorized by the weak
and the failures who don’t have what it takes to be successful in life and thus
turn their negative emotions into a sort of God that they are honoring through
failure.
Shame is a
feminine emotion, not suited for generative people. It has its roots in manipulation
by women who cannot control those stronger than them via honest methods and who
must then turn to psychological tricks to achieve control.
What is the
proper response to doing something that makes you feel shame? It’s not to stew
in your feelings and trick yourself into thinking that your actions are then
absolved because of an internal mental struggle but rather to realize what
caused you to do the thing you wish you hadn’t done in the first place and
ensure that you don’t do it again, not because of feeling bad or social
pressure but because you are the protagonist in your own life and things that
you know are improper are things that you should strive not to do because they
do not benefit you.
Remorse is just
like shame, a self-destructive and mentally ill impulse that distracts from
productivity and proper behavior. Everybody makes mistakes and does things they
know they shouldn’t have, but feeling regret about those things is indulgent
and childlike. The past is the past, whatever happened has happened, and to
dwell on it outside of the purpose of logical analysis is stupid and a waste of
time that could be spent in more beneficial ways.
People who
are doing things are too busy to care about making sure others feel bad about
their misbehaviors. The people that push shame or remorse as virtues rather
than a form of mental illness are pathetic busybodies that are unable to
transcend in any manner and thus must try to drag everybody around them down to
their level of incontinence. It is a feminine urge to tear others down for no
purpose other than to feel good about yourself, and this urge is at the core of
both remorse and shame.
Don’t feel
remorse or shame, it’s a complete waste of time. Learn from your mistakes and
misdeeds and improve yourself without slipping into the trap of emotionally
investing into things you can’t change. It doesn’t matter if you feel bad, so
why feel bad at all? You can’t afford to get caught up in things that don’t
matter, and your emotions don’t matter. Emotions are useful for those who don’t
have critical thinking skills, but a disability for those who do.
Do you need
the negative feelings of remorse and shame to prevent you from doing stupid or
harmful things? If so, you are weak and driven by emotional impulses rather
than any real willpower or self-knowledge. If remorse and shame can really
convince you to do or not do anything, then you don’t really have morals or honor
you simply wish to not feel bad, which means that anybody who can hijack the
way you feel can get you to do anything they want.
After your
brain is fully developed, unless you are a moron who cannot figure out how to
think is no reason to idolize negative or positive emotions or see them as
anything other than pests. To be controlled by how you feel rather than what
you know is the mark of a slave who will never become a master of their
environment. It is immature and inefficient and will not lead to any form of
greatness or competence.
The reason
that shame and remorse have both been pushed increasingly hard in recent times is
that society has been functioning in an improper and self-destructive way that
has been bearing fruit, and that fruit needs to be distracted from. Rather than
admitting all the wrongdoing that is going on, those who are willfully doing
wrong are generating negative emotional impulses in those that they are doing
wrong to so they never wake up and see what is really going on. It is a
top-down push on otherwise capable people to further distract and enslave them.
While you are busy crying and “working through” improper things that you have
done, others who are not burdened with this neuroticism are free to run around
and take even further advantage of your inability to act in a proactive manner.
The mind is
trained to behave in the way you want it to behave, and the more you dwell on
your emotions, the more emotional you will become. The way you feel is not
static or set in stone, so to focus on things that provide you no benefit (remorse and shame) causes you to be increasingly neurotic and more likely to focus on
remorse and shame in the future.
Shame and remorse are psychological weapons that have been
used against able-bodied individuals for so long that they are not recognized
as such. They are a form of control that have been internalized and canonized
as healthy and proper when they are really unhealthy and improper. Once you are
an adult, feeling bad or feeling good should not be what drives you to do or
not do anything. Stop feeling shame and remorse and instead just do things that
you know are proper to do, because what is proper to do is beneficial to both
you and those around you who are also acting properly.
