Self-contempt

Assuming that such a personified will to contradiction and counternature can be made to philosophize on what will it vent its inner arbitrariness On that which is experienced most certainly to be true and real it will look for error precisely where the actual instinct of life most unconditionally judges there to be truth. For example, it will demote physical-ity to the status of illusion, like the ascetics of the Vedanta philosophy did, similarly pain, plurality, the whole conceptual antithesis subject and object - errors, nothing but errors To renounce faith in one s own ego, to deny one s own reality to oneself- what a triumph - and not just over the senses, over appearance, a much higher kind of triumph, an act of violation and cruelty inflicted on reason a voluptuousness which reaches its peak when ascetic self-contempt decrees the self-ridicule of reason there is a realm of truth and being, but reason is firmly excluded from it . . . ... 

Extreme focus on self, impatience for immediate gratification, contempt for authority, an entitled sense of individuality, a determination to live outside "the system," treating peers as more important than parents, communicating less and isolating when at home, and lying for freedom s sake are just a few common characteristics that may accompany a young person s entry into substance abuse. And when these characteristics do occur, more conflict between parents and... 

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