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There's a very real sense in which each state follows from each prior state, sure. A good take will cause you to be careful about which broad directions you set course for and which content you consume. A bad one will cause you to dismiss your own responsibility for anything.
Of course, whether you tend toward a good take or a bad one is, on some layer, beyond your control. So I offer this tweet as a non-consensual course-corrector: HAVE THE GOOD TAKE. RESIST THE BAD ONE.
I appreciate your taking the time to respond. I still don’t see how I’ve misread him. It really all boils down to luck. The amount of control or responsibility we assume for our lives is still more luck. The probability that we will have a good take or resist bad ones is luck.
The point of Sam’s take on free will is not to dismiss responsibility (which isn’t *really*, in a deep sense, in our control anyways), but to increase compassion.
I return back to this point because this is right before our conversation went off the rails.
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IMO: no matter who you think you are, what you think your education/prior success/popularity says about you, what your "role" is, there will likely come a moment when it matters whether your ego rests primarily on status or scrappiness 