There's a sentiment in several Agatha Christie books (usually in the form of warnings to communist/socialist characters) about avoiding the temptation to think of the weight of the world's problems resting on you personally.
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Find a nice bunch of people tackling a nice little piece, and then take your little piece of that little piece. Everybody alive does that too. A cohort of humanity collectively adds maybe a dozen little pieces to the problem of making the world marginally better every generation
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Even the most vaulting ambition of a single human, if grounded in legitimate capacity for doing huge things, is never "save the world" scale (and I reiterate here, that stated that way it's not just an ill-posed problem, it is a big-problem-creating posing).
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Rather appropriately, this train of thought itself randomly fragmented into 3 disjoint pieces. Glueing piece #2 here, on hyperpluralismhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1120932160259510272 …
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Piece #3 is my 3 stooges theory of what's happeninghttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1120939062188097539 …
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The world is not yours to save. You have an obligation to NOT try to save it.
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This is what British classics scholar of the turn of the 20th century, Gilbert Murray called ’Satanism’ https://archive.org/details/traditionprogres00murriala/page/202 …
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The stupidity of narrative is among our species' greatest weakness
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