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I don't like this guy's vibe, but I'm left wondering if we aren't stuck in a heroic mindset, while thinking like a villain is just more efficient. It feels prof
by wwilim 3y ago
I don't like this guy's vibe, but I'm left wondering if we aren't stuck in a heroic mindset, while thinking like a villain is just more efficient. It feels profound, uplifting and _right_ to challenge yourself, but after you've completed your inner journey, how far ahead are the vipers who only learned only to strike and perfected only their viciousness?
- kombookcha 3y agoThe viper mentality is ultimately parasitic and their benefit will drop off once they've eroded the community they prey upon. A viper in a pit of vipers is just another schmuck. Choosing to be suboptimal in the short term for yourself, for the long term benefit of everyone, is how you grow.
- piltdownman 3y agoDelivered Benefit != Profit How many of the Top 20 Global Rich List got there through altruism and CSR? We have dozens of touch-points in Human Culture to aptly demonstrate this, ranging classically from 'The Tragedy of the Commons' to that sterotypical 80s mindset of 'Nice Guys Finish Last'. From Manufacturing/Sweatshops and post-colonial era exploitation of the 3rd world, to a Newt Gingrich led era of destructive political spindoctory in the 1st World. To be slightly on the nose about it, we're now living in a US-Led 'Too Big to Fail' era of Power and Financial attainment, typified by an incredibly strong lobbying class, and a lax and de-incentivised regulatory class. The two are then weaponised to nefarious ends by power brokers using disingenuous polemic to conflate them to the point of making the hoi polloi into a pastiche of turkeys voting for Christmas.
- vonjuice 3y agoCompleted your inner journey? I don't think there's an end to the inner journey.