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Show me a system that ''isn’t'' unfair, arbitrary, capricious, conferring of authority on dubious men — you know: [[system]]s like academic tenure, or popularity contests for best professor at Wharton— and I’ll show you someone with a colossal lack of perspective. | Show me a system that ''isn’t'' unfair, arbitrary, capricious, conferring of authority on dubious men — you know: [[system]]s like academic tenure, or popularity contests for best professor at Wharton— and I’ll show you someone with a colossal lack of perspective. | ||
''Stop fetishising minor grievance''. Stop conceptualising ''inequity'' and substituting it for ''worth''. There are better things to use your imagination for. The world is ''comprised'' of inequity. The world is an ''[[emergent]] property'' of inequity. The converse of inequity is [[entropy]] — the oatmeal, tepid, limitless sludge of [[heat death]], to which the Universe is in any case progressing: for God’s sake don’t accelerate the journey. Rather than forlornly trying to re-render the irretrievably human as impossibly divine — rather than sanctifying the fragile, thereby making it ''more'' so, ''learn to be [[antifragile]]. Identify your own advantages and build on them. Build your own systems to dampen your own vulnerability, and those of people you care about. | ''Stop fetishising minor grievance''. Stop conceptualising ''inequity'' and substituting it for ''worth''. There are better things to use your imagination for. The world is ''comprised'' of inequity. The world is an ''[[emergent]] property'' of inequity. The converse of inequity is [[entropy]] — the oatmeal, tepid, limitless sludge of [[heat death]], to which the Universe is in any case progressing: for God’s sake don’t accelerate the journey. Rather than forlornly trying to re-render the irretrievably human as impossibly divine — rather than sanctifying the fragile, thereby making it ''more'' so, ''learn to be [[antifragile]].'' Identify your own advantages and build on them. Build your own systems to dampen your own vulnerability, and those of people you care about. | ||
Be robust. Expect others to be too. Be spiky. Expect to be spiked. Answer back. Expect to be answered back to. Give [[banter]]. Take it. ''[[Call bullshit]]''. Expect to be called for it. Cast stones ''bearing in mind you are not without sin''. | Be robust. | ||
Expect others to be too. Be spiky. Expect to be spiked. Answer back. Expect to be answered back to. Give [[banter]]. Take it. ''[[Call bullshit]]''. Expect to be called for it. Cast stones ''bearing in mind you are not without sin''. | |||
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*[[The future]] | *[[The future]] | ||