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Eagle Ed Martin @EagleEdMartin - Ok, fine. Maybe there is no conspiracy to do evil.
But there is a consensus to act in ways that reward and incentivize evil.
The Consensus Kills.
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Elon Musk @elonmusk
Wise words
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Brivael Le Pogam
Translated from French
In Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist" manifesto, there's a sentence that struck me:
"Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas."
Our enemies are not bad people. They are bad ideas.
Take Jancovici. The man is brilliant, sincere, hardworking. He doesn't wake up in the morning thinking he's going to harm humanity. But the idea he carries—degrowth, rationing, frugality elevated to a civilizational horizon—is a profoundly destructive one. It takes brilliant minds and turns them into political commissars of a pauperized future.
And the most fascinating part is what this idea does to the people who adopt it.
In my circle, a large part of my friends are on this degrowth line, with the whole package that comes with it. Money is evil but they want it. We should fly less but they dream of traveling everywhere. We should consume less but they won't give up anything they truly love.
And they all have one thing in common: they're depressed. One of them even confided in me that he's on antidepressants.