I'm heartened by seeing more people catch on to my political philosophy:
1. Don't take the black pill. People are Good, and we can fix this.
2. Don't virtue signal. Everybody is welcome in the tent.
3. The people who vote in exacerbation of the problem are confused, not evil. They are not only our allies, they are us.
All we need to do is recycle enough money throughout the economy, so that it doesn't pool at the top. Such a simple, easy fix, if we could stop bickering about other crap.
@andrewrk I enjoyed this blog post that’s very related to these three points.
It’s been a few days but iirc my only major point of disagreement with the post I’m linking is in the last paragraph where he says nobody will try this in real life—I think it’s inevitable that someone will try this in real life, and that it will change the world for the better.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-i-am-not-a-conflict-theorist
@MasonRemaley
Very good blog post indeed, thanks. I also remember a non-trivial-sounding study in which the set of people claiming to be rational, and the set of "subjective" people, behaved similarly.
It seems like:
• people are irrational, so anything rational, like the blog post's conflict theory, can't explain it
• any psychological theory or one's perception of people dynamics doesn't help change anything, because people aren't going to become rational
Is this cynicism or the black pill?
