Never mind in other people.
Let’s start with you.
The solution is provided in this post, but first let’s describe —in broad general terms, but very briefly— the basic problem YOU are suffering from, because unless you know what it is you’re trying to fix, it’s unlikely you can.
We can broadly divide the causes of apathy into a few generic categories, so I will bullet point several items under various more generic headings.
See which of the below applies to you:
Physical Factors
- Bad diet (too much sugar and carbs in general)
- Taken the Vaxx (see various protocols I discovered can be very helpful even if you are vaxx damaged)
- Advancing age
- General pollutants in your environment
- Injuries
- Illnesses (especially covid and associated respiratory things like long covid, pneumonia, various “new” respiratory and allergenic factors and the various new “flu and colds” that behave like no flue and colds we have ever had before the release of the biowepon of covid worldwide, which I collectively call chemtrailflu)
- Brain fog
- General inflammation of the joints and overall body as a whole, which also equates to a weakened immune system
- General fatigue (which like the general inflammation, is merely a symptom of usually several of the above factors combined)
- Various medications and/or pharmaceutical treatments you may be on
- Actual “recreational” drugs you may be on
- Physical limitations you may have (deformities, physical handicaps, etc)
Psychological Factors
- Lack of a compelling future rendering all of effort, and life in general, as a dreary prospect to face.
- Lack of passion/ambition/compelling perapective
- Lack of intimate connections to other human beings (this is NOT limited to sexual relationships. It can and does mean lack of closeness or intimacy with your siblings, parents, friends, colleagues and so on, and is the result of the intentional atomisation of society by the usual suspects, which of corse went into nitrous-oxide fuelled turbocharged excess during the covid era)
- Lack of motivation to even learn the basic skills required to gain motivation, self-actualisation, discipline, persistence, courage and determination.
- Lack of basic understanding of fundamental principles of reality, such as:
- The realisation objective reality (and hence truth) is a thing (how our reality functions)
- The ability to do basic level logic and hence have the capacity to form correct hypothesis about any given topic or subject, by the process of selecting axioms and premises, composing the related logical syllogisms, then test the hypothesis by observation and/or experimentation and noting the results and ability of the thesis to predict reality
- Have at least elementary level understanding of mathematics and hence the ability to perform simple calculations like percentages, fractions, and being conversant with set theory and the basic rules of probability and statistical significance
Sociological Factors
Some of these are more “real” than others, in that for example, being poor is a real physical limitation, while “feeling socially inferior”, while it certainly has very real effects in your life, is essentially an internal perspective that can be (at least potentially) changed by yourself in an instant by simply modifying your internal state.
- Lack of financial means
- Lack of social status
- Lack of various opportunities (ie you want to be an astronaut but you are born in the Congo and have only one leg. Or more simply, you want to be a pilot but have terrible vision and are scared of heights. Other “lacks” like lack of employment possibilities and so in are generally on a spectrum and not absolute, so these can be both real issues, as well as a kind of excuse for not even trying, and most often are both at the same time.)
- Lack of a supportive network
- Presence of a toxic network or family or both
Alright then…
After reading all that negativity, you may well have checked out already, what with you being an apathetic, unmotivated, possibly nihilistic, cynical, depressed, incel, etc. etc.
However…!
If you have not, checked out, if —like a brave commando from WWII— you have survived the initial landing on Normandy, because you know, you reading all that long list of bad stuff, from the comfort of your couch, is basically the same thing as storming the German bunkers and machine gun nests, well… then… you deserve to receive the…
*DRUMROLL OF EXCITEMENT*
…Solutions!
Now be warned: the problems were presented as bullet-points, and the solutions will be similarly brief. Also, as always, I am not a doctor and only one person on the planet is responsible for what you do or not do: You.
Physical Factors
- Diet and general inflammation and overall health – Cut out pretty much all sugar. You will find it hard to do. Your brain is now controlled by the candida symbiote and absolutely will take over your brain and try and force you to ingest sugary foods and saccharine substitutes. The easiest way to deal with this is to simply not have any sugar or sweets in the house. Fruit is also sugar. So are carbohydrates. Eliminating them completely from your diet for say a week will not do you any harm. Eliminating them for a month would be even better. Limited consumption of carbs, especially if you do manual work is fine but even when I work on the farm like a hard driven slave, I feel no need for pasta or rice (and I prefer rice over pasta because of the gluten in pasta) beyond maybe once a week or so if that. When I lived alone in Venice I ate only bresaola, octopus, the occasional fish and drank only water. Alcohol too is sugars, and in any case not good for you in general terms though can be okay in small doses or for certain medicinal uses. The best thing ever for reducing inflammation of all kind is the olive oil we produce on my farm. Unlike the one you buy in shops ours is pure, unfiltered and there is nothing else in it, nor any blending of it, and the oil from here is literally the best in the world as it wins that international prize regularly. And no, you can’t (yet) buy it in any shop, but there should be a limited batch available soon when the Ice Spartan returns to the USA. Removing carbs and sugar, adding in some proper olive oil and eating good quality meat or fish and in a four hour window only if you can do so, will amaze you. After the initial fight with the symbiote in your gut trying to hijack your brain, you will find that one meal of meat a day is actually enough. And once you get used to it (from a week to a couple or even three months depending how polluted you are) you will find it easier to simply avoid the bad foods (bread, carbs, fruit, anything with sugar in it and alcoholic drinks). Drinking only water is how your body functions best. Eliminate dairy products too for best results. Sounds like a lot but basically it just means eat meat/fish with some vegetables and drink water only. It’s basically how we might have eaten for millennia as hunter gatherers. Which is different from farmers.
- If you are Vaxxed, you may want to read this post from my OG blog.
- The above two points will tend to have a beneficial effect on all physical factors. The remaining parts are:
- Do not do drugs, it’s an idiotic thing to do because the positive “high” they may provide is always inferior (usually by many multiples) of the “low” you feel when the high stops. It’s basic math: if feeling “good” (incoherent, ineffective, spaced out) for a few hours made you then feel bad for several times the number of hours you felt “good”, well… it’s stupid to do then, obviously. And this is true of every single drug that produces neurological effects. You are over-taxing the body for a rush, but the tax bill for it (which is eventually due) is never worth it.
- Try to work your way to health in such a way that any prescription drugs are eventually eliminated if at all possible.
- If you have been born with (or acquired along the way) physical handicaps and so on, then simply face reality and realise that even that will not prevent you from being married (if that is what you wish) and being loved (regardless of if married or not). You just need to do two things: firstly, work on your character and personality. Being unpleasant, bitter, cynical, and a constant whiny victim is not attractive to anyone. George R. R. Martin, or Neil Gaiman, will probably die alone or be danced over their grave by their eventual gold digger bought and paid for “companion”, despite their wealth. On the other hand, I personally know a few couples where either both, or at least one of the partners is severely handicapped with physical deformities far worse than even GRR Martin’s and Gaiman’s unfortunate countenances extend to. The difference is not their looks, but their character and their general attitude to life. So, face facts, improve yourself internally, and secondly, hunt in your range. If you are a “one” in looks, trying to land a “ten” for a husband/wife is generally futile. On the other hand, if you approach another “one” well then everyone is more comfortable and they may well be the one you end up settling down with.
- Some sort of regular exercise regime of course is also very beneficial but might be more properly considered under psychological factors despite its effects being noticed most in the physical realm.
Psychological Factors – General
For the most part, this is the thing you have the most control, and hence the opportunity to change for the better. Unfortunately, it is also the area most people fail in to take decisive action.
Psychological Factors – Dietary
In the first place, cleaning up you diet by eliminating all the trash foods, sugar, alcohol, and most dairy products and carbs (but ensure you have some fats be it from animal products, olive oil, butter, and possibly full fat yoghurt), will improve your general mind fog. One point no one talks about, and that you may not even believe until you experience it yourself, is how much your gut bacteria hijacks your brain. This is not opinion or science fiction, it is literally a fact. But reading it is one thing, experiencing it makes you aware of it on another level. Allow me a little interlude to explain:
In 2016, I lived alone for a year in Venice, and had been somewhat unwell for the previous couple of years. Nothing “drastic” but I knew I was far from my usual fitness throughout my life. I was a bit heavier, but more importantly always tired and generally weakened. Someone suggested I probably had an unbalanced gut biome, with too much Candida, which is the case for most people today. As I was alone and had few distractions other than work, I decided to implement a radical approach. I fasted with only water for 2-3 days then I threw out all sugar, feuit and carbs and ate only horse bresaola, octopus, the occasional fish or steak, and maybe once a month a kg of plain yoghurt. I drank only water and not even coffee or tea, and cut out all dairy completely. After six weeks I had lost about 7kg of excess weight, was back to having a sixpack and felt absolutely better, but the thing that shocked me the most was what happened after a few months of this, and having noted that the taste if various things like chocolate, or ice cream or dairy was actually not appealing at all anymore (taste tests were done with minute amounts to consciously check my body’s reaction. As I knew from previous years when I did not drink ANY alcohol for a few months the taste of most of it was unpleasant).
I was lying on the couch watching an episode of Montalbano completely relaxed, when suddenly I had this massive urge for some Nutella (Italian chocolate spread). It felt like almost a life or death thing. I had half raised myself from the couch before the rational part of my brain realised that:
A) I didn’t have any Nutella, in the fridge where I was apparently headed, or anywhere else for that matter.
B) I did NOT like the taste of it anyway; and it took a few seconds to realise this “craving” was not really “mine” as such.
C) The realisation that my body and brain were almost successfully hijacked by the bacteria in my gut, and I had become aware of it only because I had purified my body and brain for a while and also placed myself in conditions where even if acted upon unconsciously, I had no opportunity to “achieve” the aims of the parasitic gut bacteria that was directing me like an alien symbiote would.
In this respect then, the link between you overall fatigue, brain fog, general body inflammation and apathy is in my opinion, all far more severely affected by your diet than ANYONE has EVER told you, explained to you, or demonstrated to you. And you don’t need to take my word for it. You can simply test it out for yourself, as I did, and see the effects for yourself.
Psychological Factors – Logic Skills
There is no way around this. You simply need to put in the time and effort to learn, at a minimum , the following:
- Realising the difference between objective phenomena and principles and subjective ones.
- Realising we live in an objective universe (i.e. truth is ONE and exists in the same way for everyone, independent of your ability to agree, understand or even perceive it correctly)
- The ability to do math to grasp at least the basics of:
- Percentages and fractions
- Sets
- Ratios
- Basic principles of Probability and Statistics
- Basic algebra
- The basic rules of logic
Psychological Factors – Trauma based lack of confidence
If you had crappy role models, no role models, or worse still were possibly abused as a child, your idea of who you are can absolutely cripple your ability to get off the ground. The most important point here is to realise with crystal clarity something most human beings never ever, ever, figure out at all, but is nevertheless true. Your idea about who you are is just that: an idea. And ideas absolutely can change.
If you think you are too stupid to learn basic math, you will never even start trying to learn it.
If you think you are just not the type who can become disciplined, guess what… you’re right.
It is far better to make a list of characteristics or behaviours you wish to have and then work like an obsessed person to male them part of your own deep seated idea of who you are. And eventually, you will be. This is not easy or quick to do, but it absolutely IS possible.
Psychological Factors – Social
The human need for companionship is essential, even for committed misanthropes like myself, so you should make some effort to join clubs or sports where you can begin to interact with the kind of people that have similar interests to you. Of course, finding a suitable wife or husband is also important for most people, but that is a vast topic, and one I tried to cover specifically in Caveman Theory .
Psychological Factors – Compelling Future
Depression and its sister apathy are essentially due to a lack of a compelling future. It’s hard to get out of bed in the morning if you have nothing even remotely good to look forward to.
But no matter how grim your situation is now, nothing lasts forever. In march of 2013 my world collapsed when my 15 month old daughter was abducted to Brazil by her mother. Facing every second of my life after that was a superhuman effort of will, and I would not have lasted too long if I had not had my Road to Damascus moment a week later. Nevertheless, the very idea of a compelling life was totally alien. But I did not lie down and die. I just carried on. Kind of like a dead man walking, but walking nonetheless. Went to work and worked hard and well. I did what I needed to do. Eat, work, pray daily for my daughter and just stay alive. I had relations with various women but none counted very much as the very concept of a relationship was as untenable to my mind as aliens coming to offer me a tour of the Milky Way.
And yet… not even five years later I was married. And five years after that I had three new children and my daughter had been living with me for 2 years already. Two more years and the fourth child with my wife will be born in a couple of months.
No matter how bad things are, keep walking. Keep getting up. Keep working and going through the motions. The absolute worst time of my life also eventually was the thing that led me to Catholicism, a new and very awesome wife, and four more children plus one step-child, I would never have had unless that terrible event had happened. So do not assume the worst. Just keep going. Nothing lasts forever, but that means bad times also don’t.
Sociological Factors
While these indeed exist, most are temporary if you apply yourself decisively to them. Being poor is not a permanent condition if you are willing to do whatever work you can get.
Being of not the right social status can change, usually with access to more money, but can also change or at least be temporarily negated by having enough genuine self confidence. Fake self-confidence will tend to get you in trouble however.
Lack of a supportive network or family, or worse, being in a toxic network or family, tends to require your physically removing yourself from that social network. And generally it’s best you plan your exit alone and without sharing the details. Save up and move. Whether you go no contact or modified contact will be up to you, but do NOT re-invite toxic people into your life once you finally got away from them. Learning to keep them away is an essential skill. And going no contact even if only for a time might be the way to go.
The worst thing about toxic networks is that you are usually born into them, and if they are all you know, it can be almost impossible to realise how much they limit you. Secondly, the people in them will try and prevent you from getting yourself into a better situation. It’s often enough not even a fully conscious mechanism, but they so it nevertheless. Give you bad advice, try and get in the way of any attempt at self improvement or getting away from them you may have started and so on.
Learning to extricate yourself from a bad social network is not easy or fun, but it is absolutely imperative.
Conclusion
Ultimately, whatever your situation, whatever your specific challenges, the actions you require to take to better yourself, are YOUR responsibility, and no one else’s.
Whining, complaining or crying about it will not change anything. So, ultimately, getting over your apathy is always going to be down to you.
This post was originally published on my Substack. Link here
