It’s time I admit that I haven’t been kidding myself when I started thinking Tony Robbins’ principles are becoming somewhat obsolete. They are based upon changing you and then everything in the world would become better. This is not true anymore. When the world didn’t exist, like it was the case in the past, It was all about you. If nothing exists outside of you, you and your internal world will be all there is. With the emergence of a stimulating environment, principles about happiness through self-control advocated for in meditation, religion, and the self-help industry of the twentieth century or the self-help style of Tony Robbins should be considered obsolete, because now, it is no longer about happiness. It is about making your mind engage in this world that has become worth living. Even if you didn’t feel good or fulfilled or happy, discussing the green new deal with a strange acquaintance or a strange person is something that we couldn’t even dream of doing 3000 years ago and is something that deserves your attention and mental immersion, even if it doesn’t affect your happiness in any way. If you want to be very happy, fulfilled and in a positive emotional state, just lie on the couch and listen to your favorite type of music in an air-conditioned location. Don’t think about your problems. If you don’t want to disrespect your mind, think about your problems and how to address them one after the other until you reach a new level of well being you never experienced before and the lack of which you would have never noticed before because you had no idea such thing is possible or such thing exists in the first place. It is like conquering or exploring new territory or planet or galaxy. Not about feeling good while doing anything. It is about or it should be about what can we reach if we do this or that. Instead of what we can feel if we stop doing this or that, even if the result is positive emotions , fulfillment or happiness. Who cares about what I feel or will feel now, it is about making myself qualified enough to produce an opinion about my state that is worth me paying attention to it instead of just shutting it up because it is coming from a primitive being or self who doesn’t know any better.

We can be happy slaves. We can be oppressed and all our rights taken from us by authoritarian totalitarian fascist dictatorships and we can be tortured like hell kind of torture and still if we control our focus and state – the way religion or meditation or self-help advice of the twentieth century or the self-help of Tony Robbins explains to us we should do – we might be in ecstasy or feel extreme happiness despite all that is happening or regardless of all that is occurring to us or outside of us or anywhere in all space-time. But is shutting ourselves from reality and all that exists outside of us and all there is in the universe really what we should be doing? Is having no feelings to the extent that you order your emotions to feel a certain way it is supposed to feel because you chose to because you’re the one in charge or you are the arbiter boss a good recipe for the best quality of life you could reach and live? Or a life that is worth living and caring about and giving a damn about continuing to struggle in it to keep staying alive? Or is it feeling reality as it is and trying to make it better to experience the effect of this enhancement, or modification, or growth, or discovery, or expansion on you and how much it makes you want to live fully, and engage fully, and stay forever in this world, and positively impacts your well-being and quality of life? It is not about positive feelings. That’s why Freedom is valuable. It makes us able to reach higher states of existence. Without freedom you could still be happy. But is this life that lacks any degree of autonomy or freedom the best life you could ever have?

Two things screwed up Self-Help in so far. The absence of politics in it (i or the lack of importance of involving politics while thinking about anything related to Self-Help), and the absence of the atheistic factor in it (Or the religious beliefs spoiling whatever good the self-help producer might arrive at). The detachment from reality always doesn’t lead to beneficial outcomes. It just makes people feel good, happy and fulfilled. No wonder depression is more prevalent among people who are not religious.