David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

All the reasons why you shouldn't and so few voices articulating why you should.

And it's breaking down.

It is.

It's a great example, again, of how all the greatest intentions still led us straight to hell.

I really enjoyed Louise Perry's analysis of the sexual revolution not being an unqualified good, which was something I hadn't thought about at all before she articulated it.

That, of course, women should be able to have freedom and self-determination and abortions and all of these things.

And

Louise Perry is not arguing against that either, of course, but there are second order effects that we don't appreciate at the time and we may not have ready-made solutions for.

That's just interesting.

You make life better in a million different ways and somehow we end up more miserable.

Why is that?

Why is it that humans find meaning in hardship?

And I think some of that is that

It's a difficult question to answer through science.

And again, Peterson articulates well this idea that you have to find some of it through art, some of it through authors, some of it through different... I was just about to say modes of knowing before I stop myself because that sounds like woo bullshit.

But there are different ways to...

acquire those deep lessons that sort of a paper is not going to tell you.

And we've had a bunch of bad replacements, especially over the last few decades where,

Religion is one of those things I've struggled with a lot because I'm not religious.

but I sort of wish I was, I can now fully appreciate the enormous value having an operating system like that brings, not just at the individual level, but rather at a societal level.