It's not simple and this mindset that "You stand in a field of diamonds" from the 19th-century prosperity gospel has caused immense harm in all kinds of different ways for as long as our civilization has believed ithttps://twitter.com/TheWholeTruthXX/status/1368176569286615042 …
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I mean like I don't even necessarily want to try to win the argument that this isn't true I just want to point out how many people have never *considered* that it might not be true, that they take its truth as an *assumption*
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It's like, you've applied this moralizing lens to different possibilities "The world out there is full of wonders waiting to be grasped" is the motto of cool, badass, heroic people "The world out there is full of danger and death to be feared" is the motto of cowards and babies
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But that doesn't have anything to do with WHETHER IT'S TRUE Whether there ACTUALLY IS a positive RoI to "going out there" is a FACTUAL matter, something that can be evaluated by looking at what actually is out there
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This thing people do where they make decisions based on what would be the right choice if they were a character in a movie "The guy who says no, I'm staying home and not going on the cool adventure is the loser"
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Well, there are different kinds of movies What if this isn't a cool adventure movie, what if it's a horror movie and I'm the one telling you not to go into the woods
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"Growth - for the sake of growth - is the ideology of a cancerous cell." - attributed to Edward Albee
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