It is impossible to deny that man is essentially sick, morally and otherwise.

Loving mankind *as such* is really just cowardice. It is the result of wanting to get something out of it, as opposed to elevating it (i.e. imposing restrictions, and thus causing bother for people).
If you can get to age of 30 and still love humanity (in its current form), you are part of the problem.

You don't see it because *you are it*, just like a young person doesn't see the trend because *they are part of that trend*.
Part of our punishment is a physical ugliness.

The average human being is really quite ugly. I suspect most people suffer from a kind of alcohol poisoning.
We actually *look* like addicts.

Our skin is awful, and our bodies and faces (particularly our jaws) are misshapen. In white people, we are plagued with red faces due to damaged blood vessels (again, I suspect due to alcohol).
The British are particularly neglectful when it comes to hot weather. Whereas animals follow their healthy instincts to stay in the shade on a hot day, Britons deliberately pursue the sun because it is a locus of social and semi-sexual activity

This makes their skin like leather
Even while profusely sweating and red in the face, they will insist that hot sunny weather is a God-send, and that it is a sin to avoid these deadly heatwaves.

Many of them dream about moving to Spain, where they can indulge this addiction to an absurdity.
Britain has one of the highest alcohol-during-pregnancy rates in the world, which is a huge problem (comparable to miscegenation). This no doubt is contributing to our biological decline.

This worship of beer, common to Northern Europeans, needs to end.
Beer itself tastes disgusting, but it is redolent of social life, so people continue to drink it.

This is identical to the love of hot weather.
It's a myth that we drank it because it was the only clean water. We drank it because we were addicted. We had plenty of fresh water sources (in fact, geographically speaking, we're quite lucky in this regard).

For centuries, leaders have warned against drinking too much of it.
After the failure of the temperance movement, we simply gave up. A bit like the war on drugs. It seemed impossible to fix.

Romans were also deeply concerned about the Dionysian binge culture (and saw it as barbaric), but again, the protests were of no avail.
You'd be forgiven for thinking we are in some kind of Kali Yuga.
On the social plane, what really gives us a disagreeable appearance is our manifest *try-hard* qualities.

The profile pictures, the desperate attempts to be liked, the overly deliberate way of living.

Nature is beautiful due to its naivety.

See also: https://twitter.com/tom_username_/status/1245508147814502402
Every snapshot of nature has timeless beauty, due its naivety. Every moment in nature is perfectly suited to the task at hand. It has no other objective in mind that what it really appears to be doing.

Humans, by contrast, are trying to appear a certain way. It's hideous.
Everyone plays ball with this grotesque spectacle, because they themselves want to play the same game.

It's a bit like how women fake-compliment one another. It's a wink-wink-nudge-nudge signal that everyone is playing the same game.
See also:
I feel a deep and profound shame whenever I see old indications that I was playing this same game.

I mentally slap myself, and try to promise to myself that I'll never do it again.
The purpose of human life is to cure man of (or at least provide treatment for) his sickness.

It's to let the universe flow in a state of naivety, which is the secret to happiness.

It is to re-absorb humanity into the sublime flow of nature, but without lowering ourselves.
This need to *appear* a certain way is just a gigantic, life-long lie.

And like all lies, they become a long-term psychological burden which degrade your personality.
We all feel these temptations to lie and give off a certain appearance, especially in the modern world. The way to shake them off is to be *mindful of them happening*.

The sincere reflection that you are lying is itself a kind of selfless beauty; it is reattachment to God.
If someone could see your face as you reflect on these things, they would see a truthful and therefore beautiful countenance (in a sense naive too).
This reflection is humanity being true to its purpose.

This is what Aristotle meant when he said man is a rational being, whose telos is to reflect.

A philosopher is the highest type of human, the human par excellence. They must therefore lead.
At various points in history, we have felt this instinctively.

Today, we have lost sense of this, but we still pretend to be deep and thoughtful. Even the most degenerate Marxist/anarchist academic pretends to have philosophical wisdom.
People resist everything I'm saying in this thread in the same way a person resists being told they're wrong.

They identify with all the effort hitherto, and refuse to let go of it (cf. sunk cost fallacy).

If forced to confront it, they will feel deep and painful shame.
This deep and painful shame is necessary to set them on the right path again.

Repentance and forgiveness is absolutely necessary to set things straight again. This is in stark contrast to cutesy democratic platitudes, which constantly remind people how wonderful they are.
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