If I have a Grand Unified Theory Of Everything, it’s this: I believe that people always do things that make sense to them. Hard as it is to believe with all the hurting out there, almost nobody hurts others just to be a jerk. So if you want to change human behavior on a grand scale, you can’t tell people “stop being a jerk.” You have to dissect and then recreate their models of the world until being a jerk doesn’t make sense.
Fair point. I can’t really think of anything I’ve done that didn’t make at least some sort of sense at the time, but I can think of at least one thing I’ve done where I seriously have to strain to see how it ever could have made sense to me (though I remember feeling like it did). Looking back on it, I feel like I was carrying the idiot ball.
Cliff Pervocracy
While I think there’s some truth to this, it’s easy for me to come up with examples of things I’ve done that never made sense to myself.
Fair point. I can’t really think of anything I’ve done that didn’t make at least some sort of sense at the time, but I can think of at least one thing I’ve done where I seriously have to strain to see how it ever could have made sense to me (though I remember feeling like it did). Looking back on it, I feel like I was carrying the idiot ball.