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I tend to agree with the intention but I think this subject is way more complex than this. People form visions of the world based on their beliefs systems and
by sebastianconcpt 10y ago
I tend to agree with the intention but I think this subject is way more complex than this.
People form visions of the world based on their beliefs systems and they pull/push that vision in their behavior and the things they build.
To show what I mean about this: in a way, many good entrepreneurs are reality deniers. They need to refuse to believe that the current status quo is the best that the world can be. They need to believe a reality that does not exist (yet) in order to build it. For people with affinity they will be visionaries, for people that antagonise with them they will be bullshitters.
But that's how disruption happens, with cultural and market irreverence. That is pitched "selling smoke" (in the eyes of the cynic) or selling a new way to experience X in life (in the eyes of its believers and users/clients)
- tenkabuto 10y agoIt may be useful to distinguish between things that are not true and never will be, and things that are not true but could eventually be true. If one were to try to present the former as though it were true, what they'd be presenting is bullshit, whereas I would say that the latter is merely (note the air quotes) "bullshit." To those who need everything to be true now, the latter will be seen as bullshit, but it is not actual bullshit, as it may yet become true.
- sebastianconcpt 10y agoGood point!