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Are you really THAT boring/unimaginative? Or that insecure about your talents in those departments that you have to prop up self-esteem by getting the highest measurable rewards available? Life as an extension of 4.0 GPA pursuit?
Still puzzling over the implications of my morning thread. I get the messed up childhood that made horned-shaman guy who he is, but what turns a Josh Hawley into who he is? (obviously smart, Stanford, law clerk etc, but somehow, this is the game he has chosen).
Seems to me, the principal component of the cause breaks down as: Insecurity: 60% Lack of imagination: 30% Psychopathy/Sociopathy: 10% Some other Congressperson called Hawley a psychopath.
I’m sure everybody’s motives (including mine) can be cast in a selfish light, but what makes people interesting to me is self-illegibility. A poet is not necessarily more or less selfish than a banker, but it’s harder to penetrate to the underlying self-interest in writing poetry
Re: my earlier thread, one hypothesis I like is that it takes uncertainty to eat uncertainty (a variant of Ashby’s law that variety eats variety). So if the world seems level 11 uncertain to you, pursue motives that are at least level 11 uncertain to your best introspection.
If there’s an impedance mismatch between self-certainty and world-certainty, things get boring and/or dangerous. It’s not that “deep” people have “depths” but that they choose to get out of their depth by learning to want things they don’t understand their own motives for.
“Man’s reach should exceed his grasp else what’s a heaven for” etc etc
Alt version: a risk you take in the outer world is only actually bold to the extent it threatens to change who you are. Puts “bet only what you can afford to lose” in a new light.
If you only grow your external winnings (while perhaps appearing radical to mooks) but leave your self entirely untouched, protecting your psyche like crazy... you’re kinda boring. And possibly also susceptible to the Dark Side and Palpatine’s inane whispering sin your ear.
I wonder too. Why is success never enough? Seems like there is a line after which friendly motivating competition devolves into negative competition. I imagine there is some rich guy club somewhere they all join and antagonize the ones who aren't in the top ten or whatever
That, and sociopaths are happy to pull that trolley lever, so bad guys gravitate towards power by doing so eagerly. Having a conscience gets in the way of self-interest which is what bad guys maximize for.
Labels like Stanford / Yale are just labels these days. We need to recognize that getting a degree from these places is no indicator of character. Maybe it once was, but in the present day, it is indicative of nothing more than some ability to get in to these places.
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