People say walking on water is a miracle, but to me walking peacefully on earth is the real miracle.Thich Nhat Hanh
The Fremen Mirage
1 week ago
Random thoughts on the blue highways.
You never know what you will find on the blue highways. Particularly when the choice at an intersection is controlled by the roll of a die. About the only rule is that highway onramps don't count as an intersection. You don't even have to roll the die. If one road looks interesting, go for it.
People say walking on water is a miracle, but to me walking peacefully on earth is the real miracle.Thich Nhat Hanh
You may have knowledge of Donald Duck but can Donald Duck give you knowledge and wisdom? Answer: no, therefore Donald Duck has no objective existence he is just a cartoon character.willieHindu
But sometimes those same activist cultures can be unnecessarily exclusive – and worse, inaccessible and elitist. I even feel myself doing it sometimes:
Today a growing segment of young adult males will not achieve the material and social success necessary to be attractive mates and form households. By way of comparison, a generation ago in his mid-20s my father had a house, a wife, two kids and a stable job things I was unable to achieve until my ’30s. ... Today Increased economic opportunity and higher educational attainment for women has removed the economic need to be tied down to undesirable dudes. This is a good thing for almost everyone. But for those on the outside, however, it turns social awkwardness and the tail end of the achievement bell curve into a prison planet of isolation. And that generates rage.
note: "Incel" a name they call themselves, meaning "involuntary celibate."Perhaps the rage comes from the tail end of the curve. The more concerning issue is that the middle of the curve for males is incel. (This may not be a new phenomenon.) Women now have control not only of not only who they will have a baby with but who they will fuck. Women it seems have little incentive to have sex per se, hence scriptural admonitions to "pleasure" their husband once a week.
Tit-for-tat fails when the community hires enforcers for the tats. Either vuvuzelas in fancy dresses in over decorated balconies who administer divine grace or community enforcers who inevitably fall victim to the Stanford Prison Experiment guard syndrome. One would hope that the vuvuzelas would be immune to the guard syndrome, but the evidence is not hopeful.So let’s talk about how beneficial game-theoretic equilibria can come to exist even in the absence of centralized enforcers. I know of two main ways: reciprocal communitarianism, and divine grace.Reciprocal communitarianism is probably how altruism evolved. Some mammal started running TIT-FOR-TAT, the program where you cooperate with anyone whom you expect to cooperate with you. Gradually you form a successful community of cooperators. The defectors either join your community and agree to play by your rules or get outcompeted.