Damn, hadn’t read this. This is basically C. S. Lewis 1944 edition of my Gervais principle, but with reco that you aspire to a sort of conscious cluelessness (“craftsman”) and avoid sociopathy because it a) tempts you into being a “scoundrel” and b) sucks you towards nihilismhttps://twitter.com/Scholars_Stage/status/1320449302129500160 …
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My advice is to learn the game and how to play it. Don’t get addicted to it, but don’t sit it out either. It’s a kind of acting dead/waldenponding. Especially if fetishizing “craft” as an embodiment of “good” is the alternative. Inner rings are part of life.
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This is well worth reading as a counterpoint in the genre. I was actually looking for it earlier to add to the thread but had forgotten the ref. tldr of this: real inner circles (Ie informational) as a burden of being misunderstood you are not free to clear up. Much Straussian.https://twitter.com/calcsam/status/1320540431298502659 …
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He also fought in WW1, and cited his experiences of trench warfare in the Somme as the source of his pessimism. (Also, was wounded and 2 of his friends and comrades killed by friendly fire).
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