I started out thinking the world was fundamentally reasonable, and would understand you if you were just persistently earnest enough, but recently it feels like I'm shifting to more "the world is insane, and you can only be earnest in safer, silo'd gardens of sane ppl"
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I don't mean this as explicit beliefs or an explicit shift, I just caught a glimpse of my own frames in my peripheral vision and noticed it was more "truth must be limited to the chosen ones with the capacity to handle it" vibe than it had been previously
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i'm not sure i parse the question, but something like, i think i'll get punished more severely than i am willing to endure?
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Don't discount the possibility that both you and the world are insane, just in different ways 🥰
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she is right, but the insanity is not evenly distributed; eg the contrast between Munich and SF is unbelievable right now
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wrote a great essay on this: paulgraham.com/say.html
Personally I just try to surround myself with open-minded people so I don’t have to make that judgement call
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The world isn’t reasonable or unreasonable. Reason is a thing your brain does sometimes and never perfectly
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