There’s a lot of money to be made telling losers what they want to hear. If you ever hear a public figure of any kind telling you something just oh so comforting about how the problems you’re currently facing aren’t your fault and you shouldn’t have to take responsibility for them… run.
Those people don’t want to help you. They want to drag you screaming into the rocks so they can loot your corpse. They want you to empty your vaults of money and attention, heaping it all onto them. They tell you that you you can’t solve your problems so you shouldn’t try, but that’s okay because they aren’t your fault anyway, and what you should do instead is just wallow and make the wallowing a little easier by voting/subscribing/buying in whatever patterns they tell you.
Look, I’m not trying to be deliberately brutal. Not every single bad thing in your life is your direct fault, obviously. But it’s all your responsibility, and anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to shake you down. It’s a grift. No one ever improved their lot in life by listening to people tell them that they have no agency, that they’re simply victims of forces they can’t possibly understand or control – only blindly and impotently hate.
Don’t fall for it. Keep your rudder straight and tie yourself to the mast if you have to. Only go toward hope and life, not despair and death.
The Opportunity Machine 