Once I fully appreciated the predator vs. prey distinction, I started seeing prey talk everywhere.
Prey animals care about two things: having the tasty grass instead of the boring grass, and being in the middle of the herd instead of at the edges. In the middle it's warm and it's almost impossible for a predator to reach.
If you're at the fringes of {{society}}, then the scawwy scawwy pwedatoors might eat yoo. Oooh nooo!
"I can hear it now: "There is no place for violence in our communities." That's the problem. There should be one, single, national community of which everyone is a part."
https://twitter.com/jollyheretic/status/1814061378329874558
"There is no place for [predation] in the herd. That's the problem: everyone needs to be part of the same herd."
The larger the herd, the smaller the fringes as a proportion of the total herd, and the harder it is to be pushed out of the warm middle.
feels like the real reason why most? people can't detect the problem with ponzi s or MLMs or the stock market is related to this. 'more people can't possibly be a problem, value is always free and unrelated'
ReplyDeleteTo them, there genuinely is no problem. Line go down? Numbers aren't even real bro, lol. Herd go up.
ReplyDeleteThey would appreciate numbers if other herd members had theirs go up, but if everyone has them go down at the same time, there's nobody who can brag, thus nothing to envy.
ReplyDeleteThey understand line go up just enough to ensure they want everyone in the ponzi scheme, so everyone goes down at once.
In turn, why they hate short sellers so much.