hahaha I love the idea of people making rational decisions
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the more people get to know you, the more things you say strike them as really mean 🤨
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says the guy reminding all the normies that death exists and will claim them
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Normies are the only ones who are actually prepared to hear it ime. All subcultural types (including billionaire immortalists) are in some sort of denial bubble or the other, aestheticizing their mortality-salient cognitions with some pretty reification or the other.
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Subnormies read heidegger, normies try to figure out how to game taxes on their 401k and transfer property to kids in the sneakiest way possible. Revealed preference suggests the latter are in less denial about death.
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it's only invalid if you think somehow extreme depressive angst or existential nausea is in some way a more "authentic" response... it is certainly an interesting response, arguably more interesting than dull estate planning, but I am not convinced it is more authentic
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I recall in William James' Variety of Religious Experiences, he starts with "the religion of healthy-mindedness" (basically normies with no deep spiritual leanings or introspective tendencies) and dismisses them quickly to move on to more "interesting" angsty varieties.
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yeah he thinks the “religion of healthy-mindedness” is the religion of his time so he’s more interested in the people it doesn’t work for
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I got the sense he thought a life full of peak experiences and spiritual questing was somehow a much deeper religious experience, which I found a persuasive argument at the time (this was 20y ago so I've forgotten the book). Now I'm intrigued by the depth of "healthy mindedness"
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Hence my fascination with mediocrity. A story that kinda half gets at what I'm sniffing around is Father Sergius, a sort of indictment of the self-consciously examined life in favor of the unexamined mediocre one.

