So I think the objection that our mutual friend there would make, is that the perspectives/worldviews that are both like, conveyed by modern culture, and which are say “psychologically sustainable” from within modern culture, make most of the “true” good qualities of a Mapler/Soryu under-salient or invisible, and laud qualities which are “”“truly””” in fact harmful, reprehensible etc.
So I expect they would cite factory farming, climate change, obviously x-risk, but also social media, maybe something like “social degeneration”, in this case meaning something like communities fracturing or dissolving, networks becoming sparser and less meaningfully bonded, etc. (tbc not that I endorse all of these as real, but as what they would cite.)
And the claim there is like, you can’t be a normal guy and hold a normal job and have friends and raise your kids, with all of the above around, unless you hold a perspective that normalizes it or ignores it, and that whatever the costs of uh “becoming a Mapler”, they are much smaller in comparison.
Yeah this feels closer, thanks.
So I think the objection that our mutual friend there would make, is that the perspectives/worldviews that are both like, conveyed by modern culture, and which are say “psychologically sustainable” from within modern culture, make most of the “true” good qualities of a Mapler/Soryu under-salient or invisible, and laud qualities which are “”“truly””” in fact harmful, reprehensible etc.
So I expect they would cite factory farming, climate change, obviously x-risk, but also social media, maybe something like “social degeneration”, in this case meaning something like communities fracturing or dissolving, networks becoming sparser and less meaningfully bonded, etc. (tbc not that I endorse all of these as real, but as what they would cite.)
And the claim there is like, you can’t be a normal guy and hold a normal job and have friends and raise your kids, with all of the above around, unless you hold a perspective that normalizes it or ignores it, and that whatever the costs of uh “becoming a Mapler”, they are much smaller in comparison.