Ah crap, "mediocrity is good" IS my Thielean secret. I'm a goddamn cliche. One reason I've stayed on it is that it really is a legitimately divisive idea. I'd have stopped beating this drum a year ago if people hadn't pushed back.
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“Mundane” might be more digestible. Close enough of a payload for you?
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I'm sticking to mediocrity. Mundane doesn't cover it, nothing does. I have a decent vocabulary in this area :D
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It seems like it’s your version of “enough”, “contentment”, or “appropriatism”. If that’s the case, I like your version better.
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Mediocratism: Survivalist philosophy sans Hobbesian nature-red-in-tooth-and-claw violence. Acknowledge survival is problem #1 and a hard one that you have to solve every day. Reject idea that you have to inflict or suffer pain to do it. Reject both scarcity/abundance aesthetics.
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Does "worse is better" fit in here? https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html …
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Yes, that connection I already made... also perpetual beta and the entire philosophy of agility is mediocrity philosophy, properly understood... fail fast, move fast/break things etc etc
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Are any of these similar to mediocre? https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/44330/a-word-for-a-worldly-wise-person-who-pretends-to-be-na%C3%AFve …
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