RE: a question regarding the future
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
I am fully with you on the predictive aspect of the crisis talk, but you seem to forget your own advice to look into what makes people “tick.” Doom saying is a bunch of hogwash if you take it as an advice to build your future on it, but it tells you something about the state of mind of the doom sayers. Like their idealism or religious mind-frame that is eager to substitute wishful thinking for a rational analysis of material reality. Or willingness to obtain instant gratification or relief from their frustrations by saying magic words.
Yup, this is true, but neurotics love their symptoms, but they nonetheless make their lives worse. What you describe is a kind of collective pathology, and, fundamentally optimistic fool that I am, I persist in hoping that at least a significant minority of the population could be persuaded to work through their collective delusions. I realize that that’s a seriously uphill struggle, and I don’t know how to go about that, but I haven’t given up yet.
Doug