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The cynic cared more than the optimist. Too much.

Discrimination often manifests as a refusal to barter as equals. Instead one party requires the other to “prove” themselves first.

A strange loop of gatekeepers furiously doing nothing and judging everything.

Pessimists tend to blame other people. Optimists tend to blame pessismists.

Envy is dangerous because it compares your internal reality with another’s external projection. Inner truth will always lose to sterile perfection.

Envy is a result of taking yourself too seriously. By taking your own projection too seriously you take the projections of others as truth rather than metaphor.

The denser the city the more a specialization can become a service and lifestyle. Without density everyone must become a generalist because there are no economies of scale via deep specialization. So things are expensive and not as high quality.

Invading a country at war with itself is unintuitively a bad idea. There is increased chaos to capitalize on, but it's also heavily militarized. Applies to people who are at war with themselves as well.