Hello Board Members! I have a question that's been on my mind for a while, and I'd like to ask your help with it.
I've been listening to the show for quite a while now, and I feel I've come a long in identifying childhood trauma's in myself and others. I've been trying to better myself and I feel I am making progress. Looking at my relationships with friends and family has revealed, quite predictably, that in the past I've been drawn to disfunction and amorality. Since almost none of them are courageous enough to follow the path of self-knowledge together with me, most of these relarionships have started falling appart - some of them violently, some of them less so.
I feel I can see disfunction now, in myself and others, and it's all I see. My question is: how do I recognize a healthy, virtous person if I met him/her? Most people in my country (Romania) have never heard of this show, or of libertarianism, so I believe that I cannot filter based on ideas alone. Even if meet healthy people, or people with potential, they will likely be statists/relativists and I haven't yet met a single person with a normal childhood etc. How can then at least recognize potential? Also, where do I find these people? Because they are certainly aren't in my social circles or work colleagues.
If you had similar experiences, I'd be very grateful to hear your views.