Eneasz Brodsky

You have to just start all over from the beginning, from first principles, because there's nothing you can rely on.

And all you really fucking want was someone you can rely on, some mentor to guide and protect, someone who's not insane and who has more experience and power.

And yeah, what he wants is someone he can look up to the way a child is designed to look up to his parents.

And then he gets that wish in the form of quarrel.

Yeah.

The next thing, continuing the wishes granted metaphor, is that since this is a rationalist story, when Harry gets that wish to finally have someone he can look up to and trust who is sane, then...

he gets punished that's a bad thing his mentor is evil because this is a story about rationalism and wanting to have someone like that above you that you can trust to be sane is a bad thing to want uh much like in the 80s slasher movies uh as soon as somebody have sex they're killed by the the serial killer because having sex is a bad thing and thus you must be punished this is the same thing uh harry wanted someone above him who can who can he can trust who can

Who he can put his trust into.

And you can't have that because the world doesn't work that way.

So when he makes that mistake, that is his mistake.

It's a big mistake.

And he's punished for that mistake for the entire rest of the book.

Because it's a bad thing to want.

And what William says is the thing that he should have wanted is to have friends and allies, peers, that you can work with side by side.

Because that is the...

And that is the striving of rationality to work together on something because this is the best we got.

There is nothing above us.

And so you want peers that you can work with.

You want allies.

You don't want to put blind trust in someone.