>>11343591>please largely disregard >>11343575I won't. You made a perfectly valid point. Reading it sharpened my own thoughts and I'm grateful for the dialogue anon.
You're absolutely right about people needing a higher, noble ideal to achieve success. People suffer from a lack of personal virtue. Quite literally I think it makes people ill. Like a dog with mange. In some ways it should only be expected. Our societies educational institutions generally ignore concepts like philosophy and virtue ethics in favour of physics, biology and chemistry.
I've said to people in the past that I can't help but think my school years were wasted. The most formative years of my life "learning" nonsense when there were more fruitful topics to be engaged in. Putting it as succinctly as I can; I left college knowing how plants feed themselves; but I didn't know how to be a good man.
Is it any wonder our western cultures are dying?
