How to Choose the Narratives That Are Most Empowering

Some people might say, oh, you know, my odds are really stacked against me. And other people might saying, oh, it's totally hopeless. This is the same thing the left actually does on race, right? Like, in the right will criticize them for it. They'll say, hey, certain groups have it so stacked against them that there's this actual privilege to be able to do what they want with their lives. But should we pick the narratives that are most empowering? You know, David Brooks once said something like, when you went on a macro level, everything is, is environmental,. On a micro level, you should overweight individual opportunity to change one's circumstances.