Your Stupid Reactions · Get a Grip on Reality! (BZ002)
⁘ Created: 2025-11-12 ⁘ Updated: 2025-11-13
Being a notch trigger-happy again? Need to lash out with your battle axe? Phantoms in sight — attack! But do you not realize that you're typically reacting to projections in your head only — wrestling with your own habitual templates.
Then in the odd case you're actually reacting to something actual, it's totally out of proportion. Unburdened by reality metrics, it's as loud as your current feel of inner claustrophobia dictates. Take down the weeds with a chainsaw!
Absolutely unhinged on the internet — we're playing shoot-em-up. No humans there — just insentient NPCs. Off with their heads — never mind someone gets hurt. But please don't be a total jerk. Use that higher cognitive capacity sometimes.
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So, what the hell exactly are you reacting to, again? Like someone pissed in your precious porridge. Didn't bother to take a break for a reality check, did you? What typically happens is we react to ghosts and phantoms, to hallucinations and projections, with little grounding in actuality. Blindly implementing our habitual templates or spawning our reactions based on our past traumas.
In doing that, we are basically offenders to reality, in violation of the rights of other beings for an undistorted experience of interaction and existence. So, please let that sink in for a little bit — and consider your reactions. Take a little moment of contemplation and reflection. Look at the situation that you're in.
Am I actually reacting to what is — or am I reacting to an idea, the reality of which only exists in my head. If it's nothing but your internal triggers making a racket again, then you might just as well keep that response internal, contemplate on what exactly is wrong in your mind.
This dysfunctional behavior is all the more escalated on the internet. Where we do not read the body language of others, we do not hear the tones of their voice, we don't really care about their backgrounds, nor of their intentions. What's in front of us — that we attack.
As if you're playing a mindless shoot-em-up game with a field full of non-player characters, insentient — free game. "Fuck ey, another idiot bites the dust" — and victorious we march on, and if they complain, we block them. Would you ever do that in real life?
No, you would not — unless you're a complete asshole. But somehow this standard of behavior passes on the internet. So please don't be a complete asshole, even on the internet. Take into account that there are other living beings out there, and they would like to be treated very much as you'd like to be treated yourself. It's quite basic really.
Then beyond that, in taming your unhinged reactions. Step two: See if your reaction is actually proportionate to what you're faced with. It's not that indignation, anger, etc. are inherently bad and must be avoided at all times. No, they are natural potentials, forces of corrective response, that should be used in appropriate measure.
Measure those responses. Someone pokes you with a finger — you don't take the blade out. Someone hits you with a stick — you don't go looking for the chainsaw. React in due proportion to what actually is. Take that reflective break, buffer your reaction. Contemplate what actually is — inside of me and outside of me.
Find that gap in your cognitive process — use it to ripen yourself and your responses. Please try not to be a disturbed animal, pretending to be a human being. Actually put your higher conscious capacity into use. Evolution gave it to you for a reason.