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Originally Posted by freebeard
Whelp, here's a black pill that requires attention: The Coming Psychological Black Death[/URL]
I may have mentioned Whatifalthist before. This one comes with a bibliography with 25 entries and two 'best ever' videos, as well as the usual text wall you have to pause (like parentheses or footnotes).
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Took me several attempts, but I listened to it all and looked at most of the charts and graphs. Most of that is familiar since I keep up with Jonathan Haidt and Peter Zeihan.
Nothing I disagree with much in that analysis, and I don't see the black pill (except in the medium term) since the pendulum re-centers things.
SA has conditioned me to not assume a cause > effect relationships between correlated things. For example, I don't accept that college "makes people smarter". It seems just as likely that smart people go to college. In that same vein, I don't accept that financial wellbeing causes people to be happier. It seems just as likely that happier people make more money, with perhaps a 3rd variable being the few extremely driven people who sacrifice life balance for very high incomes/statuses.
Today's SA episode theme was that there is no penalty for dishonesty in politics. That's a recipe for suffering, because that's the unavoidable outcome of sacrificing honesty for a brief win. It's not fixable through political means, because it's a cultural problem. Our institutions have taught so much cultural relativism that people are convinced there is no objective truth, and there's no such thing as one culture (or aspects of that culture) being better than another. If people believe it doesn't matter which direction one heads, it always leads to hades. Funny, I recall something about a road that is narrow leading to a better place, and aimless wandering leading to a worse one.