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It turns out pundits don’t want to talk about what’s happened; they want to use what’s happened to talk about the same things they talk about every day.
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Knowing something is a bad idea does not always decrease the odds that you will do it. If I had examined my motivations on this one, I probably wouldn’t have liked what I found, so I didn’t.
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This forced me to realize that, while I wanted to be fiercely myself, I also wanted someone around to see me do it.
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“One tap for yes, two taps for no. Can you understand me?”
Two taps.
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-- Hank Green,
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (2018)
The sequel had some good thoughts, so...
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The book seemed to know what I should do—well, isn’t that what we all want to know? Free will is stressful.
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We build narratives of genius and exceptionality among the people who have power, and they are often exceptional, but no more exceptional than hundreds of thousands of others. In your system, power concentrates naturally. And so the thing that is most exceptional about a powerful person is almost always their power.
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-- Hank Green,
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (2020)