The Mind Has No Interface The mind has no interface. Modern psychology and therapy have been trying to hyperstition the mind into being a manipulateable object for centuries, and it's (clearly) been a disastrous failure. Your brain (and heart) are made of neurons, strengthened by habit and first erected by experience, and occasionally, will. The only way to change is simply to change. The only way to do something is simply to do something. This is clearly illustrated in, for example, the placebo effect, where "mere" belief is roughly as effective at dealing with depression as the average anti-depressant is. White girls know this well, which is why when they want something they manifest it. Ridiculous? Perhaps, only because they think they can manifest outside themselves, but in your mind "manifestation," is everything. Not the thought, "I'm manifesting," but just, simply, plainly, /manifesting./ How does one become free? You be free. Most people are more interested in excuses of course. "I can't just do it! What about x, what about y? Depression is genetic. Depression is incurable. Depression is a DISEASE. Learned helplessness buddy, Google it." It's comforting, because freedom is painful, will is a knife and the first thing it cuts is you; but change is right there, all you have to do is change. The rationalists will say that and then create lists of the top ten ways to be more agentic. Buddhists will say that and then create some very bizarre visualisation meditations to help you out with it. I'll say that and write an essay to overcomplicate it, like this. But all you have to do is change. The alternative is insanity, playing with abstracts, talk therapy with a robot, creating an idealised version of yourself in your ego's imagination and contrasting it to the current version of yourself in your ego's imagination and then hoping that the sweet trickle of thought will somehow miraculously rewire your deepest tendencies and darkest habits. Some change might be sprinkled in by accident, but that is insanity, because change, the change you can effect, does not start from outside of you but from inside, with the firing of a single neuron, with the first step of something new. With the dawn, like our universe once dawned, like life dawned out of the void, like language dawned out of mind, like humanity dawned from the first spark of the first bonfire, willed into existence. Frankly, people sense this. There's a reason young people are sliding further to the right with every passing day, there's a reason Nietzscheans get more and more annoying online with every passing day, and there's a reason every single person you meet is scrambling into astrology and religion. Everyone is hungering for will and for the meaning that comes along with it; but these are mere symptoms, mere signs. The problem is, we love to think. Our entire society is addicted to thinking, and this is inflicted upon us very early on. How can a society built on public schools and abstract economic rules and complex bureaucratic systems be anything but a thinking society? But thinking is an interface, it's useful for abstracts, you know I love those; but abstracts don't make us act or change. Do you know what does? Pain, hunger, fear, lust. Willless vrillless nihilists all over love this sort of determinism, because they're deterministic. Unable to simply change, or simply act, they life their life as a domino in series of dominoes, eternally reacting to whatever forces play upon them. In our modern society, the forces that play upon us make us psychotic, dissociated, and dejected. What's the way out? More thinking? More discussing? More tik-toks, but uhm, they're about healing and energy work and stuff so uhm it's actually helping...? The techniques of our society, the habit with which we engage the world, is woefully unequipped to deal with our mind, body, and soul. Within you is something mysterious, something empty, something inherent. You, in and of yourself, whatever you are, and it is this tiny seed planted in the fertile ground of our middle realm that all things sprout from. So let go of your techniques, forget healing and trauma and therapy and jargon and even thought. They're worthless to you. Do the right thing because you can, do the hard thing because you can. Some say free will doesn't exist—I say you are nothing but free will—enact it.