Why would one regret it? What should I read that you think some people might regret reading?
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Replying to @ArtirKel
Things that seem like “dark knowledge” to me are usually learned through experience more than through books.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
To me curiosity is so overriding that I've even said that I'd like to be depressed for a while just to know what it feels like. I've never regretted knowing more
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Replying to @ArtirKel
Hm, some references: Heidegger’s Being and Time is the view from the inside of a mindset that fundamentally doesn’t believe in reality plus a claim that this is how all people think.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
The Last Psychiatrist and basically any “redpill” blog (I’m not going to link any) are full of claims that low motives are going on all around us, with specific examples
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
Moral Mazes and I think some of the postmodernist authors are arguments that businessmen, in practice, are driven by low motives (and not the relatively wholesome self-interest of the classical liberal ideal)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
Machiavelli is the original exposer or low motives but I think by now his insights look pretty tame and few people will have their whole worldview shattered by them
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
Reading about what extreme Evangelical Christians actually believe, in their own words, is eye-opening, though it can be *very* intense nightmare fuel. I recommend the blogs No Longer Quivering and Somatic Strength, by religious abuse survivors.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
(Basically I think that’s the key insight; most people are inhabiting a mindset much more like the Quiverfull one than the “liberal” one you inhabit. Even nominally secular & “progressive” people.)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
Mean Girls, especially if you didn’t attend an American suburban high school. I went to a weird hippie school and thought the social dynamics in high school movies were unrealistic. THEY WEREN’T.
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Pretty much all how-to info on marketing makes claims about people having low motives. (Eben Pagan’s stuff seems better than average at saying some correct things. There’s a lot of pseudoscience out there.)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
You may hear anecdotes from upper-level business people and even university professors indicating that they make big decisions on “gut feel” and inexplicit social signals rather than sober cost-benefit analysis.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
“Pitch Anything” is a book containing many such anecdotes but they’re so outrageous even I can’t quite believe they’re true.
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