>>12732741It is because success in society is very material and competitive, at least that's how it's portrayed: wealth, possessions, status. This is unnatural, there's only so much fruit on the tree so of course we have a culture based around praising who's got the most. However obsessing over what you have and what others have is pathetic—money is a means and a tool, but too many view it as the end goal, they base all their choices on what will get them money. Whether that's a happier way to live is debatable but I do think it's contemptable in how restricting it is. I think there's so much more to life than things, and I'm not just talking about love and experiences, but more unconventional concepts: truth and justice, glory, revenge, fury and violence, honour and nobility, fantasy and the metaphysical, failure and suffering, war, suicide are all concepts that are worth exploring in introspection or aspiring to understand/serve.
>>12732742They're synonymous psychiatrically but sociopath and psychopath actually swapped definitions. Psychopath now means cool and collect and sociopath means brash and hotheaded—when the contrary was the case previously
