Great essay thanks. One of my favorite subjects. The inverse relationship between civilizations and freedom. We pay a very high price for “security”. Especially acute stage in our own civilizations today.
This reminds me a bit of good 'ole Ben Franklin...Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
It also reminds me a bit too of the book - The Lord of the Flies...that did not end well either.
I don't believe most - any? - of these children actually believe what they proclaim. I'd like to put the lot of them to the polygraph test and see just how truthfully held these insane beliefs really are. Because fundamentally they're all externally locused - defining who they are by how others see themselves. Their virtue signaling has become their identity, and they know it's not rational - but their identity depends on group acceptance. Surely there are a handful of psychopaths and sociopaths among them - the rest are just group followers with no internal identity.
But Nietzsche embraced risk when he wrote, "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger." This precept is developed more fully in Nassim Taleb's book, "Antifragile." It applies to individuals, organizations and nations. An eye-opening read.
Great essay thanks. One of my favorite subjects. The inverse relationship between civilizations and freedom. We pay a very high price for “security”. Especially acute stage in our own civilizations today.
This reminds me a bit of good 'ole Ben Franklin...Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
It also reminds me a bit too of the book - The Lord of the Flies...that did not end well either.
I don't believe most - any? - of these children actually believe what they proclaim. I'd like to put the lot of them to the polygraph test and see just how truthfully held these insane beliefs really are. Because fundamentally they're all externally locused - defining who they are by how others see themselves. Their virtue signaling has become their identity, and they know it's not rational - but their identity depends on group acceptance. Surely there are a handful of psychopaths and sociopaths among them - the rest are just group followers with no internal identity.
But Nietzsche embraced risk when he wrote, "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger." This precept is developed more fully in Nassim Taleb's book, "Antifragile." It applies to individuals, organizations and nations. An eye-opening read.