This is an important clarification/modification to a very important community concept, and as such, is deserving of further canonization in the LW review process.
Asking the question “why are things so bad?” (or, as it was put in Meditations on Moloch, “what does it?”) leads to a lot of clarification useful for fighting the problems in the world. Yet, seeing all those mechanisms in detail can also lead to a lot of hopelessness.
Asking the mirror question, “why are things so good?” is also very helpful, particularly once one has traveled far down the road of understanding why things are so bad.
This is an important clarification/modification to a very important community concept, and as such, is deserving of further canonization in the LW review process.
Asking the question “why are things so bad?” (or, as it was put in Meditations on Moloch, “what does it?”) leads to a lot of clarification useful for fighting the problems in the world. Yet, seeing all those mechanisms in detail can also lead to a lot of hopelessness.
Asking the mirror question, “why are things so good?” is also very helpful, particularly once one has traveled far down the road of understanding why things are so bad.