From watching you for a while, I think you’re driven to off-handedly forecast doom and gloom because it suits your identity as someone strongly dissatisfied with their current world, signaling contrarianism and wallowing in dignified pessimism. And of course elitism and despair look cooler to you, and form a coherent narrative.
And I’m not going to judge this as something negative, or implore you to fix some “problem” with your personal feelings, I just suggest that you keep a skeptical perspective on your self-narrative somewhere in the back of your mind. As you surely already do.
I’ve looked at this argument so many times from so many different angles that I would be very surprised if I hadn’t in previous correspondence with you talked about it in very similar terms. I think I’ve given it its proper weight, but I guess readers may not be aware of it so you pointing it out isn’t problematic.
From watching you for a while, I think you’re driven to off-handedly forecast doom and gloom because it suits your identity as someone strongly dissatisfied with their current world, signaling contrarianism and wallowing in dignified pessimism. And of course elitism and despair look cooler to you, and form a coherent narrative.
And I’m not going to judge this as something negative, or implore you to fix some “problem” with your personal feelings, I just suggest that you keep a skeptical perspective on your self-narrative somewhere in the back of your mind. As you surely already do.
I’ve looked at this argument so many times from so many different angles that I would be very surprised if I hadn’t in previous correspondence with you talked about it in very similar terms. I think I’ve given it its proper weight, but I guess readers may not be aware of it so you pointing it out isn’t problematic.