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HN has a lot of biases. We're more economically conservative than average, much more pro-motivation, and there's a lot of contempt for the arts here. It's a sha
by unalone 17y ago
HN has a lot of biases. We're more economically conservative than average, much more pro-motivation, and there's a lot of contempt for the arts here. It's a shame, since otherwise this is a terrific community.
- timwiseman 17y agoIts interesting how differently people see things. I would consider We're more economically conservative than average, much more pro-motivation, to be positives. I do agree that a genuine contempt for the arts is a bad thing, but I haven't seen a ton of that.
- unalone 17y agoI like having good arguments on both sides. I'm not saying that pro-motivation or pro-conservation is bad, because it's not. At the same time, I've got a lot of friends on both extremes of the economic argument, both anarchosocialist and Objectivist-libertarian, and I think there's a lot of value to be had by arguing both sides. Similarly, the calmer life philosophies that are less about motivation and more about contentment aren't thrown about as much here, and so sometimes conversations seem a bit lopsided.
- kingkawn 17y agoI'm not advocating just for the arts specifically, but rather for a degree of thoughtfulness, stemming from the belief that; 1. Education is valuable 2. You likely do not fully appreciate the complexity and beauty of areas that you have not studied at all. Many outside this community are dismissive of mathematics, and they would be just as wrong.