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Look anon, you're not entirely wrong but you're missing the forest for the trees here. Yeah, 99% of what we do is conditioning and mechanical repetition, the book literally confirms this with
>"99.9 per cent of our existence comprises repetitions, mostly of a strictly mechanical nature."
But here's where you're being a brainlet: the entire point of "anthropotechnics" as discussed in the book is that humans are the species that can break out of this conditioning through deliberate practice and self-shaping. You're basically arguing for giving up at the exact moment when the real work begins. The concept of "ethical distinction" is about recognizing that some people hear the imperative to change and others don't, creating natural hierarchies of those who practice versus those who remain stuck in their automatisms. Your "humble ourselves as equally worthless beings" cope is literally what Nietzsche called the last man mentality: the comfort-seeking, meaning-avoiding mindset that stops vertical striving after the death of traditional values. The book shows that even Stoics, who focused on internal reactions like you suggest, were still engaged in "perpetual exercise" and self-mastery, not passive acceptance of worthlessness. Sure, we react to the world, but "anthropotechnics" means we can shape how we react through training and repetition. You're confusing recognition of conditioning with fatalistic surrender, which is peak midwit behavior desu.

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