>>6344990>>6344987>UNZIPPING... and lewd?paradoxically the pinnacle of bdsm bliss may be achieved with the opposite of nudity. You need to PUT ON MORE CLOTHES (also cinch them tightly)
I actually never believed in this "goon" phenomena before I thought it was some 4chan joke, but then I read that notorious long 2025 November essay in Harper's Magazine, which I believed to be a prestige literary arts publication with a renowed century-and-half of history publishing Sherlock Holmes or John Stuart Mill lol but then they sent their essayist / journalist to investigate and author an insanely lengthy article on this "goon" phenomena, it is apparently real and I was appalled, for some reason if this appeared on 4chan I would be ok with it, but the fact that it crossed over to Harper's? really really shocked and frightened me
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/Reading this article did cheer me up immensely, good for them I guess. This is the sort of societal transformative progress made possible by multi-screen teleconference social networking technological enablement! I also expanded my lexical breadth with neologisms and concepts like... "WANK-BATTLER" it is amusing to imagine it like jousts in a medieval tournament
>>6344986>SELF-LOATHING vs TRANQUILITY?>a cure for depression...?Usually when you meet very successful motivated mission-driven CEOs or wealthy thought-leader people you find they have the opposite of the Dragon Age Tranquil
>>6341089emotionless desireless magically castrated zombie servant drone, they are the opposite lol they have instead had all humility and self-reproach amputated and are convinced of their own exemplary visionary paragon genius
Some measure of calibrated introspection and internal self-criticism / dissatisfaction is healthy, but I suppose it depends on whether you are in control of it or if it is being imposed by external obligations etc Nonetheless it is possible to use emotions to reshape the response and outlook to any bleak situation (one of those approaches being
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The imagination is boundless and cannot be constricted by others so one method to liberate yourself from anhedonia is to aggressively cultivate obssessive curiosity about new phenomena, this is the antidote to being stuck in a repetitive self-pitying rut etc, just hoard and heap and fuel your own internal imagination with insatiable curiosity and fascination, new concepts and things, you can imagine anything as anything
