>>33914
Let's look at the word.. degenerate - from degenere Ita. - degener, which essentially is lower than your ancestors.
Seems to me, to avoid being a degenerate, don't make mistakes you know you're making consciously.
Mistakes are a lesson to learn, but if you make mistakes consciously then you're taking 2 steps back, that is going back from progress.
But do you mean sexual degenerates? Chemical degenerates? Entertainment degenerates?
it could be like a wavelength with different spectra and only a small portion of what is considered the basic needs could be classified as able to fall back.
The words we use hold secrets, retard, degenerate, the fall, going backwards, ask yourself have you ever wanted to go back in time a fix something? That is attachment.
In a sense, your will to avoid degenerate behavior is a paradox in itself as it's a glass made of ice being filled with water, if you're on the path, working on self, respecting self and at the same time realizing doing those gives off to your exterior world the same benefits as you earn, that aspect really isn't a factor.
If you mainly consider this being a deviancy vice more sexual or based on the urges to get a dopamine fix out of anything, then understand the sexes and overstand them, really research your own aspects of yourself.
Say if you're addicted to porn, read articles or watch a few documentaries on the reality of the industry - trust that after that, if you still want to jerk off to that content, you're not going higher up that's for sure.
This whole process we think we are going through, self-empowerment, self-growth - well honestly, looking at the logical process, we are already the ultimate we can be, we simply do not process it in the MOMENT, but as you remove all exterior sources and come in to yourself you realize you have EVERYTHING in you, so this strive for greatness really isn't end game, that's silly, why would end game for the very force of end game be end game. Everything possible and that could happen or that could be IS, if it where not, fathoming such things would be unfathomable.
The process seems to be the enjoyable part, the climb, the walk, the hike. Did you ever have a group project with folks and had fun doing it in team ( could be a mmo boss or a school project or anything in the work force ) i mean real fun, not just you doing all the work because you have social anxiety and can' communicate with your teamates so you end up justifying their lack of involvement. Was funner to build and create than to look upon the end product, the end product gave satisfaction and that's it.