Biological Determinism

[Anonymous No.12922374]

Are there any books / essays / schools of thought that will help me reconcile my desire to be great with having the short end of a genetic stick? I have what I suspect is a thyroid condition and it is driving me crazy knowing that if I hadn't been born into a relatively wealthy family, I would probably have died by now. I'm constantly lethargic, always in pain, frequently dizzy, and have issues sleeping. I haven't been able to hold down a job longer than 3 months (I'm turning 24 soon) and I'm sort of just getting ready to autopilot until I kill myself. I don't feel sad or depressed, just disappointed that I can't be the aspirational things that I always wanted to be. I want to be young and full of energy and optimistic and strong, but I feel like that stuff is beyond me, and even if I do manage to normify myself after 6 years of being a loser, I would still likely be passing on defective genes. I'm near sighted, too. These sorts of things don't seem to bother most people - my dad is near sighted and very successful, but all I can really think about is how my genetic profile is encoded with mediocrity, and even if I manage to overcome it, I'm just kicking the can down the road.

I started having these thoughts around the time I started reading Nietzsche and edgy right wing heredity blogs. This was incidentally when the symptoms started to present themselves. Interested in any literature that can help to get past life's constraints (open to being humbled, too, if this is fate, I want to know how to deal with it bravely).

[Anonymous No.12922394]

>Better to Have Never Been - David Benatar
>Free Will - Sam Harris

[Anonymous No.12922397]

Penrose's "Mind" trilogy.
TL;DR the collapse from superposition to position has to involve some type of choice. Or at least, if anything, it proves true randomness and against determinism.
Restart the universe a billion times and you'll have a billion unique histories.

Unless you believe in the very gay multiverse theory.

[Anonymous No.12922403]

>>12922394
These seem like really bad ideas though

[Anonymous No.12922405]

>>12922374
Anon, Kant was a manlet, Beethoven was deaf, and Homer was blind. All of these names we can recall because of what they did in life, rather than what they were. You yourself fighting your determined ‘fate’ shows that there’s something else there.

[Anonymous No.12922407]

>>12922397
Penrose books so hard

[Anonymous No.12922413]

Alfred Adler maybe just go to therapy my friend

[Anonymous No.12922415]

>This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical pre-dominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's Tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Fut! I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.

[Anonymous No.12922482]

>>12922415
Nice

[Anonymous No.12922494]

>>12922415
>DUDE GENES DONT MATTER LMAO JUST B URSELF :DDD

[Anonymous No.12922511]

Isn't it a greater achievement to overcome your handicap? Isn't a cripple that manages to walk more ubermensch than the genetically gifted horn of Africa nagger that runs 40km in under 3h?

[Anonymous No.12922518]

>>12922374
Adversity is the maker of men. Most successful people are because they have had to overcome some challenge or another.

[Anonymous No.12922565]

>>12922374
First of, reject the gospels of retards like
>>12922405
>>12922511
>>12922518
who derive their morality and outlook at life from years of watching shonen anime and reading brainlet-magnets like Nietzsche. Sometimes you're just fucked, period. Secondly, recognize that 'greatness' is largely a spook of evolution meant to whip humans into competition and progress. The "great" men who spent their wholes achieving said "greatness" die like every other faggot and their existence is marked by a footnote in some history book at best. Are you a cuck to the forces of nature and societal memes? Thirdly, realise that by having come into this life, you're more fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on your opinion of existence) than trillions of little sperm cells who die in vain anal sex or from jerking off every minute, so, no matter how deformed and dumb you seem to appear, you still wrangled you way in here. Fourthly, you've been born in a wonderful age of widespread, easily affordable drugs, so coping with pain shouldn't even be an issue.

[Anonymous No.12922584]

>>12922494
>muh genes
Seeing as they haven't isolated the gene for being a whiny faggot, whats your point?

[Anonymous No.12922589]

>>12922374
What do you mean by being great?

[Anonymous No.12922595]

>>12922565
You've literally just repeated what I said but with more words, you fat dumb faggot

[Anonymous No.12922948]

You Are the Placebo - Joe Dispenza

learn about epigenetics via Lipton

[Anonymous No.12922957]

>>12922374
The best cure for biological determinism is studying theoretical biology

[Anonymous No.12922979]

LOOKS MONEY SEX

[Anonymous No.12922997]

smoke some weed and change your dna lmao.

[Anonymous No.12923005]

you're just a faggot, genetically

[Anonymous No.12923296]

>>12922374
Visit the doctor so he can check your thyroid. Hypothyroidism is easily treatable, assuming that this is the case