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Building a City of the Future — Part 2 — Pretending to be wise.
While writing this post I am reminded of the book, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
“Uh huh,” Harry said. “See, there’s this little thing called cognitive dissonance, or in plainer English, sour grapes. If people were hit on the heads with truncheons once a month, and no one could do anything about it, pretty soon there’d be all sorts of philosophers, pretending to be wise as you put it, who found all sorts of amazing benefits to being hit on the head with a truncheon once a month. Like, it makes you tougher, or it makes you happier on the days when you’re not getting hit with a truncheon. But if you went up to someone who wasn’t getting hit, and you asked them if they wanted to start, in exchange for those amazing benefits, they’d say no.
~ Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, chapter 39.
I seem to be looking for the silver lining running through this ecological disaster humans are creating. I can’t seem to help myself. Here I go, pretending to be wise since there isn’t anything I can do about it except prepare my family for its coming.
