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I think the hubris is a necessary protection mechanism for the fact that without arrogance and conviction no progress would ever happen. Reasonable people get c
by nibs 10y ago
I think the hubris is a necessary protection mechanism for the fact that without arrogance and conviction no progress would ever happen. Reasonable people get convinced not to rock the boat. Only unreasonable people ignore that "good" advice and fuck shit up for the benefit (or sometimes detriment, or sometimes both) of society.
- idlewords 10y agoSilicon valley entreprenerds are top-notch conformists. The fact that they're conforming to a culture that puts value on arrogance, megalomania, or "rocking the boat" doesn't make them agents of progress, any more than being a goth kid who hangs out at the Cinnabon threatens middle-class values.
- smallnamespace 10y agoYou could say the same thing for every revolutionary ever. Gavrilo Princip was just some angsty kid who wanted to fit in with his fellow revolutionaries. He still succeeded at starting a world war. Every organization is composed mainly of followers, even ones that have recognizably brought progress to our world.
- idlewords 10y agoI don't think Gavrilo Princip is a great role model.
- smallnamespace 10y agoOf course not, but you were arguing that conformists can't move revolutions forward (whether for good or for bad). That claim is demonstrably false.
- nibs 10y agoI disagree. Take George Hotz and compare him to your everyday Harvard pedigreed Director of Sales at Facebook. Two stereotypes that look similar but require very different values, levels of conformity, etc. Just look at whoever is in tech but rejects SV culture - perhaps that is the real future.