Like all powerful people in all of history, something is broken in their brains. They would be happy to rule over the ashes of civilization as long as they get to call the shots. No amount of actual failure will make them think any of it is their fault, because they’re a genius, doncha know?
Like Jim Jones, they are true believers in their own bullshit, which is part of why other people find them so easy to believe, because there is never any doubt in their own minds that this is the right path. Jim Jones didn’t just kill other people in his name, he also killed himself.
I watched this a month or two ago, solid video. I think more could have been done to connect this to popular media especially from the 90’s about physicists. Gordan Freeman of Half-Life, Eddie Kasalivich (Keanu Reeves) and Dr. Lily Sinclair (Rachel Weisz) from Chain Reaction, and others all portrayed physicists as some kind of superheroes whose work could solve all relevant human problems. I think popular media about physicists was probably a big part of it, and I was just slightly disappointed the video didn’t touch on that very much.
Inverting things, I’ve recently begun wondering whether a good way to subvert the pervasive ideology of “the super-rich are super-rich because they are geniuses, so it’s fair” is by increasing the visibility of mathematicians and physicists, so that people be exposed more often to actual off-the-charts intelligence.
This can still degenerate into undue IQ worship at times, but at least the ego trips of scientists tend to take much more benign forms than those of billionaires, generally speaking.
by increasing the visibility of mathematicians and physicists, so that people be exposed more often to actual off-the-charts intelligence.
While I like this idea, there’s a general rejection of the intelligence and knowledge of Academia in America. I’m not sure exposure to it would change minds as much as re-enforce the feeling that they need to bully “nerds” who speak too eloquently for them to understand.
Like all powerful people in all of history, something is broken in their brains. They would be happy to rule over the ashes of civilization as long as they get to call the shots. No amount of actual failure will make them think any of it is their fault, because they’re a genius, doncha know?
Like Jim Jones, they are true believers in their own bullshit, which is part of why other people find them so easy to believe, because there is never any doubt in their own minds that this is the right path. Jim Jones didn’t just kill other people in his name, he also killed himself.
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problem with that is JJ had a limiting amount of followers, Trump has many more…and…nukes…so…
Gotta slip it in musks ketamine
And all of his followers
They all do eventually, when faced with no escape from the terrors they have wrought.
See: Hitler blowing his own brains out to defeat the Nazis
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Related: Billionaires want you to know they could have done physics (YouTube, 50 min.)
That’s funny. Jeff Bezos dropped out of the physics program at Princeton. Because it was too hard.
I watched this a month or two ago, solid video. I think more could have been done to connect this to popular media especially from the 90’s about physicists. Gordan Freeman of Half-Life, Eddie Kasalivich (Keanu Reeves) and Dr. Lily Sinclair (Rachel Weisz) from Chain Reaction, and others all portrayed physicists as some kind of superheroes whose work could solve all relevant human problems. I think popular media about physicists was probably a big part of it, and I was just slightly disappointed the video didn’t touch on that very much.
Inverting things, I’ve recently begun wondering whether a good way to subvert the pervasive ideology of “the super-rich are super-rich because they are geniuses, so it’s fair” is by increasing the visibility of mathematicians and physicists, so that people be exposed more often to actual off-the-charts intelligence.
This can still degenerate into undue IQ worship at times, but at least the ego trips of scientists tend to take much more benign forms than those of billionaires, generally speaking.
While I like this idea, there’s a general rejection of the intelligence and knowledge of Academia in America. I’m not sure exposure to it would change minds as much as re-enforce the feeling that they need to bully “nerds” who speak too eloquently for them to understand.