One of my favorite pieces you've done! The "opting out of reality" part is what troubles me the most... we can only run from reality for so long before (as you said), it catches up with us and we have to pay the price. What that price is, I don't know - but the longer we wait to face reality, the more painful it will be.
One of my favorite pieces you've done! The "opting out of reality" part is what troubles me the most... we can only run from reality for so long before (as you said), it catches up with us and we have to pay the price. What that price is, I don't know - but the longer we wait to face reality, the more painful it will be.
It was weird and nerdy, but that's what we come to you for! And I started out writing PERL, so even the weirdest analogy is straightforward compared to that.
Wealth can be used to sustain illusions, as long as the wealth holds up. If the illusions aren’t too far from reality, they don’t drain wealth or might even grow it - see NYT stock after trump’s election.
I suspect the idea of a catastrophic painful return to reality might be a form of wishful thinking, because feeling like everyone is out of touch with reality is scarier than having everyone be aligned against some obvious threat.
One of my favorite pieces you've done! The "opting out of reality" part is what troubles me the most... we can only run from reality for so long before (as you said), it catches up with us and we have to pay the price. What that price is, I don't know - but the longer we wait to face reality, the more painful it will be.
Thanks! I was worried the analogy was too weird and tech-related.
It was weird and nerdy, but that's what we come to you for! And I started out writing PERL, so even the weirdest analogy is straightforward compared to that.
Wealth can be used to sustain illusions, as long as the wealth holds up. If the illusions aren’t too far from reality, they don’t drain wealth or might even grow it - see NYT stock after trump’s election.
I suspect the idea of a catastrophic painful return to reality might be a form of wishful thinking, because feeling like everyone is out of touch with reality is scarier than having everyone be aligned against some obvious threat.