To go with that, you have a new dream crushed down onto everything which doesn't mesh with the truth. Anti-science, ideological economics, blah. Metaphorically, obviously. So I guess, without wanting to blow my own trumpet... It feels relevant because those things happened and here we are? 3/n
And AI Slop and so on are - ironically enough - a reification of those fears. But the other bits are worse, at least for now. Huh. I feel like I should go read my own book. Thank you. 4/4
Lean and Taylorism have been a disaster. Nowhere has productivity actually improved, at best you end up with a short term death march until the reactor unexpectedly blows.
Thanks for this. Maybe what's in common is that evil tends to involve insisting on a belief about how the world is or ought to be, at the expense of a world that isn't as imagined? A pastor friend suggested evil may intrinsically consist of "carelessness" and I wonder if he meant this.
I think there’s certainly a truth in the idea! But not all accounts of evil and error have to unify. There can be many, alas.
And since you've used it twice in this thread, I just wanted to say thanks for teaching me the word "reification" when you used it in TGAW. 👍🏻
You should, it’s really good.