It's amazing how much of media is explicitly geared towards promoting the notion that you should never better yourself, and just how blatant it is when you finally notice it. Degradation is everywhere within the media, and so many people refuse to see it. Then they wonder why so many people get fed up with the media, as if it's baffling that people get fed up with being pushed down in subtle ways.

The first step to breaking out of these things is to not make light of it. I used to make dark jokes about myself. Shit like joking about suicide and all that crap. And then someone showed me how it's harmful and not really some "coping" mechanism that some retard had pushed. And for a little bit I just tried cutting it out of my life and it's amazing just how quickly you mentally turn around from that shit.

So then you start to ask "why is this being normalised", and it quickly becomes scary just how effective fear and weakness is at controlling people.

They want you at your lowest. They want you to defeat yourself. Don't let them. Better yourself because you are capable of it. Learn a skill, get in shape, stay well adjusted. It's not easy, but if you're looking for easy, you might as well roll over, because that's easy as fuck.