The great mystery to me is: if what Chris Bray says is true (and I certainly believe it is), why do people believe it all? Why do they so steadfastly act against their own interests?
We're pretty clearly splitting into two cultures, one of which is massively online and extremely committed to the social value of constant signaling. So perception of "their own interests" has to do with where people live. Physical indicators seem pretty clear to me: declining grip strength, declining testosterone levels in young men. Their community is in the metaverse, and COVID lives in meatspace, which is very very scary space.
People are born ignorant and irrational and remain so unless they are taken out of that state by information and reason. All of recorded history is dominated by people dying, killing, and being killed due to this ignorance and irrationality.
We are living at the tail end of a massive historical distortion driven by a revolution in the use of reason and empiricism.
Once upon a time people would go to their grave screaming their undying allegiance to things they hadn't even tried to prove... or dared to question. How surprising is it really that they take their favorite news as the gospel truth?
Will be offline for a few days.
So true.
The great mystery to me is: if what Chris Bray says is true (and I certainly believe it is), why do people believe it all? Why do they so steadfastly act against their own interests?
We're pretty clearly splitting into two cultures, one of which is massively online and extremely committed to the social value of constant signaling. So perception of "their own interests" has to do with where people live. Physical indicators seem pretty clear to me: declining grip strength, declining testosterone levels in young men. Their community is in the metaverse, and COVID lives in meatspace, which is very very scary space.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-eternal-anxiety-of-the-thoughtless
I just keep going back to this:
https://twitter.com/ObadiahBB/status/1394084503950290945
People are born ignorant and irrational and remain so unless they are taken out of that state by information and reason. All of recorded history is dominated by people dying, killing, and being killed due to this ignorance and irrationality.
We are living at the tail end of a massive historical distortion driven by a revolution in the use of reason and empiricism.
Once upon a time people would go to their grave screaming their undying allegiance to things they hadn't even tried to prove... or dared to question. How surprising is it really that they take their favorite news as the gospel truth?
See also:
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1479053991686262784