https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc
This is a great video that fantastically explains one of the biggest ideas I think we need to be facing today. I've said that the sort of people who shut their brains off would be guarding the railcars to Auschwitz, here is the same idea presented by someone who was imprisoned and ultimately murdered by the people who guarded the railcars to Auschwitz.
It's funny seeing someone call out actual 1945 Nazis as NPCs.
This is a great video that fantastically explains one of the biggest ideas I think we need to be facing today. I've said that the sort of people who shut their brains off would be guarding the railcars to Auschwitz, here is the same idea presented by someone who was imprisoned and ultimately murdered by the people who guarded the railcars to Auschwitz.
It's funny seeing someone call out actual 1945 Nazis as NPCs.
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A lot of people point out that being stupid is lazy, but what they don't talk about is it feels really good. Simple answers help the world make sense. You don't need to feel the pain of uncertainty, just follow what the orthodoxy says is true and the world makes sense. It's not fun being in an uncertain world. It doesn't feel good having to look at things you might not like to come to conclusions you might not think you'll come to initially. By contrast, a feeling that you're doing what's right is deeply fulfilling, even if it's not based on anything real or true.
When I was younger I got sucked into a couple ideologies like that for a while. Constitutional libertarianism is really nice because as an idea there's basically one question: "Is this directly supported by the constitution?" and usually the answer is "no". It efficiently sorts about 95% of questions before you even start. The problem is that beyond ideology the world is complex and dynamic. Even Ron Paul got gotcha'd for voting to recognize Rosa Parks despite the fact that the ability to do so is not enshrined in the constitution (In the grand scheme of things, that's a pretty acceptable thing to be gotcha'd on if I'm being honest).
Thing is, once you step out of the ideological realm, the world exists and does continue to exist regardless of how well or how poorly your model works. Often later on you come back out the other side and realize (like the German NPCs did) that you regret the way you acted despite it feeling like the only way to act in the moment because you were so certain of yourself and your ideology's imperviousness.
When I was younger I got sucked into a couple ideologies like that for a while. Constitutional libertarianism is really nice because as an idea there's basically one question: "Is this directly supported by the constitution?" and usually the answer is "no". It efficiently sorts about 95% of questions before you even start. The problem is that beyond ideology the world is complex and dynamic. Even Ron Paul got gotcha'd for voting to recognize Rosa Parks despite the fact that the ability to do so is not enshrined in the constitution (In the grand scheme of things, that's a pretty acceptable thing to be gotcha'd on if I'm being honest).
Thing is, once you step out of the ideological realm, the world exists and does continue to exist regardless of how well or how poorly your model works. Often later on you come back out the other side and realize (like the German NPCs did) that you regret the way you acted despite it feeling like the only way to act in the moment because you were so certain of yourself and your ideology's imperviousness.