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That's a very modern idea: that everyone is special and valuable and the main character of the story.

The reality is that for most people (and all of human history, excluding a handful of kings, popes, and explorers) you are just undifferentiated worker #7354, undifferentiated office employee #436, or undifferentiated serf #324.

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Should we give up all hope and ambition? Or perhaps there is a middle ground to strike?

As I said in my original comment, you've got to have some internal motivation. It's unhealthy to derive all your motivation from likes or views, and people need to recognize that, as Schopenhauer says, "the safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy".

The problem is that this is antithetical to western (particularly) American cultural propaganda.

Now a lot of people are angry that you've been lying to them for years and the best you have to say now is "sucks to suck". I predict increasing political instability and violence and the social and economic classes get reshuffled.

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