I am stating, not implying, that the galaxy brain plan for stretching the Overton window backfired on them. But I’m not criticizing the position, I’m criticizing the efficacy of the strategy. Whether it was a luxury belief seems like a mostly separate point, though correlated in that such clever strategies do seem to be more likely to be pursued by the educated and wealthy.
I am stating, not implying, that the galaxy brain plan for stretching the Overton window backfired on them. But I’m not criticizing the position, I’m criticizing the efficacy of the strategy. Whether it was a luxury belief seems like a mostly separate point, though correlated in that such clever strategies do seem to be more likely to be pursued by the educated and wealthy.