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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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I used to think of that as a conservative sentiment, but now I see it in people of all types. They just differ in the X in "X will save the world" (wokeism, markets, a return to tradition, racial purity). It's participating in totalizing "final solution" thinking
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I now interpret the warning more broadly as a) Resist the messiah complex. If you think the whole problem is yours to solve, you are part of the problem. b) Resist collectivized messianism. If you are part of a "crowdsourced" messiah that thinks it has a solution that's worse
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