This almost passes for decent advice on one level, and is extremely abusive neoliberal/kleptocratic propaganda and gaslighting on another.

Everything is interconnected, and people are not meant to be so atomized, disconnected, and isolated.

We can and should help each other.

You should expect and have significant help from the civilization and society in which you live.

You are not just supposed to be an atomized cog in a machine working solely for the profits of an extremely abusive ruling class.

Self help can also mean, both yourself and everyone standing up against the extremely abusive ruling class that is robbing, gaslighting, and socially murdering the public and working classes without recourse.

Certainly be an adult and help yourself.

But if you cut off help from others (and helping others for that matter), those are the isolating conditions in which our extremely abusive ruling class gets away with crimes against humanity without so much as a fight from the public and working classes.

That is the first thing abusers do - cut people off from support and community.

You are not alone, and we are not powerless to help each other, or our communities, or our countries, or the species.

Fuck neoliberalism.