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But we can take these things a little far. Humans are [[antifragile]] things: we react well to ''little'' shocks: they toughen us up. insulating ourselves from them makes us yet more prone to them. It wasn’t {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} who first make this connection by the way, but {{author|Friedrich Nietzsche}}. | But we can take these things a little far. Humans are [[antifragile]] things: we react well to ''little'' shocks: they toughen us up. insulating ourselves from them makes us yet more prone to them. It wasn’t {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} who first make this connection by the way, but {{author|Friedrich Nietzsche}}. | ||
{{quote|“It’s this idea of constantly rethinking, “Okay, what systems might be unfair in the world? What groups might be disadvantaged or marginalized or excluded, and what is my responsibility and my opportunity to try to do something about that?” That’s something we should always be open to revising.” | {{quote|“It’s this idea of constantly rethinking, “Okay, what [[System|systems]] might be unfair in the world? What groups might be disadvantaged or marginalized or excluded, and what is my responsibility and my opportunity to try to do something about that?” That’s something we should always be open to revising.” | ||
:—Adam Grant, Wharton’s “top-rated professor for seven straight years”}} | :—Adam Grant, Wharton’s “top-rated professor for seven straight years”}} | ||
Show me a system that ''isn’t'' unfair, arbitrary, capricious, conferring of authority on dubious men — you know, like Academic tenure, and popularity contests — and I’ll show you someone with a lack of perspective. | Show me a system that ''isn’t'' unfair, arbitrary, capricious, conferring of authority on dubious men — you know, like Academic tenure, and popularity contests — and I’ll show you someone with a lack of perspective. | ||
Stop fetishising grievance at every inequity in the world. 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 grievance at every inequity in the world. 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. | ||