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I love Alan Kay but a significant portion of this talk is TEDx-like garbage: The wars, revolutions, and genocides of the past are about power not mental health.
by petermcneeley 8y ago
I love Alan Kay but a significant portion of this talk is TEDx-like garbage:
The wars, revolutions, and genocides of the past are about power not mental health.
Conscientious objectors also not by default good people.
If you define most people as mentally ill what does that say about your own diagnosis.
The human brain has been selected (in an evolutionary way) and its errors if they exist at all are likely going to be related to its unnatural environment.
His example with the dentist and the plastic is actually just an example of skin in the game.
The dentist doesn't have the skin in the game, the patient does, so the patient notices.
Sure older educated people could help the next generation but given the financial inter-generational put they have participated in I think its obvious how much they actually care about the future. As the thought leader of their time said "Its not me who will die, its the world that will end."
- blueprint 8y agoYou make the big assumption that such "mental illness" lies in a fault in the brain. Have rates of mental illness remained the same in all categories in the last 500 years? When we don't know something, we ought not to operate as if we believe conclusions made on the basis of what we have not confirmed.
- soared 8y ago>we ought not to operate as if we believe conclusions made on the basis of what we have not confirmed. What?
- wallace_f 8y ago"Dont form generalizations or conclusions based on what you dont know."
- petermcneeley 8y agoAt 32:09 his "brain" means genetics culture language schools. I dont think individual mental illness plays much of a role. Most people in power are rational self interested actors.
- jasonm23 8y ago> Most people in power are rational self interested actors. That gave me a chuckle