>>1982630>>1982656While I've got no problem with anyone who wants to remain a NEET if that happens, I could not disagree with this "it's all in the ego" business much more if I tried.
I admit it's probably futile to debate the point much within 4chan's character and bump limits, but: this is largely a matter of neurology, not willed or declared perspective. You can rationally see the folly in craving respect; you can confidently announce to the world that you've forsaken "egoistic" pursuits like this; unless you were born with severe neurological abnormalities, you cannot erase the fact that a good chunk of your brain's capabilities evolved specifically to deal with and appraise other members of your species down to almost ridiculously minute details — including your ability to learn, use, and think-in language. Though I myself used the word "society" in my earlier post, what NEETs lack emotionally is not the respect of some abstract entity known as "society", but the respect of the individual other humans that live under its aegis with them, which our brains operate with the expectation of having to some degree at all times (as indeed they generally would in hunter-gatherer, 'everyone-I-know-is-kin' kind of lifestyle we've lived in for the overwhelming majority of our time on Earth). Mental discipline can take you much further than is commonly supposed, but you can NEVER just switch off good the massive about of neurological resources you have allocated to understanding and maintaining amicable relations with others (again, unless you were just born with an abnormal brain).
It is almost always overlooked that most of the great philosophers and mystics who preached the merits of withdrawal from society and the ego in fact lived in societies in which sagely mendicancy was considered a highly *respectable* lifestyle for a wise man to lead.
