your post on tiktok made me download this app just so i could hear more of the way you explain things about civilization and our roles in it, i definitely don’t understand a couple parts but i think i’ll keep rereading😆
I’ve been trying to articulate the human condition my entire life yet am unable to fully articulate it myself because it genuinely is that elaborate. You have explained the human condition definitively well done!
Thank you Justin. I’m a first time reader. I’m very impressed! Looking forward to reading more. I feel like you’d be a great sci-fi writer too if you haven’t already
Super happy to have come across your TikTok video on this post. Very much appreciate the ontological angle being described and applied to a real world phenomenon.
I had to get on substack and subscribe to your youtube immediately b/c your instagram post is scary. Thought provoking. Now i'm at work, messed up thinking about this
You've defined in words something I've felt all my life, but I never had the words to put into place. I felt I've been affected by such things being a "gifted" person and experiencing, at least in America, a reality that once I wasn't usable (characteristics commonly attributed to 'disruptors/revolutionaries') — I guess it just silently discarded me. And if I spoke up on it, there were already protocols in place to nullify my acknowledgment of the matter, ready to make me out to be a boy who cried wolf, relabel my reasoning as excuse, etc.
I was a dual enrollee, accelerated placement, all that coming out of school. I received minimal scholarship funding, and due to household configuration, I didn't go to college with the on-paper preparation the system would assume I had. Because I didn't have that, there were no fallback mechanisms to recognize when somebody who's on paper "okay" slips through the cracks. Being in that position, I received realizations over time about how systems work and what their certain outcomes are, especially for people who have demonstrated a recognition for structures/systems.
I realized my position was not an accident. It's based on the condition that I was different from the system — the way that I am, the things that I can do which go against the grain of that which such an attractor seeks to process — it's not useful to that attractor/system, which we're defining to be that predatory, high-throughput attractor. Because it's not useful, how it trickled down into my perceivable reality is exclusion. Whether that's social, or all the different types of exclusion you can face. It took going through that to recognize it.
So you saying this in words is super affirming. It lets me know where I am as a systems thinker, and to know that I'm not the only one who could sense a sort of 'urge', the same one that drives the 'profit at any cost' behavior behind executive's fiduciary duty to shareholders, and defining that in such an example only illustrates a part of the whole that is this attractor.
I've been trying to build against this for a while @ https://github.com/prodbybuddha/dsgm ...though I started before I had language for what I was resisting. Seeing the pattern named helps me understand why certain design choices felt necessary but inexplicable at the time.
your post on tiktok made me download this app just so i could hear more of the way you explain things about civilization and our roles in it, i definitely don’t understand a couple parts but i think i’ll keep rereading😆
same!
This was amazing. What inspired this post? What books you reading man?
A lot of system thinkers notice it independently. It's just an insane effort to get it explained like this.
I’ve been trying to articulate the human condition my entire life yet am unable to fully articulate it myself because it genuinely is that elaborate. You have explained the human condition definitively well done!
Thank you for having this written down. The video just moved me and sent me on a deep history dive.
Justin, the whole world should read you. Thank you.
Thank you Justin. I’m a first time reader. I’m very impressed! Looking forward to reading more. I feel like you’d be a great sci-fi writer too if you haven’t already
Super happy to have come across your TikTok video on this post. Very much appreciate the ontological angle being described and applied to a real world phenomenon.
When you get down to it, it's simple!
I had to get on substack and subscribe to your youtube immediately b/c your instagram post is scary. Thought provoking. Now i'm at work, messed up thinking about this
You've defined in words something I've felt all my life, but I never had the words to put into place. I felt I've been affected by such things being a "gifted" person and experiencing, at least in America, a reality that once I wasn't usable (characteristics commonly attributed to 'disruptors/revolutionaries') — I guess it just silently discarded me. And if I spoke up on it, there were already protocols in place to nullify my acknowledgment of the matter, ready to make me out to be a boy who cried wolf, relabel my reasoning as excuse, etc.
I was a dual enrollee, accelerated placement, all that coming out of school. I received minimal scholarship funding, and due to household configuration, I didn't go to college with the on-paper preparation the system would assume I had. Because I didn't have that, there were no fallback mechanisms to recognize when somebody who's on paper "okay" slips through the cracks. Being in that position, I received realizations over time about how systems work and what their certain outcomes are, especially for people who have demonstrated a recognition for structures/systems.
I realized my position was not an accident. It's based on the condition that I was different from the system — the way that I am, the things that I can do which go against the grain of that which such an attractor seeks to process — it's not useful to that attractor/system, which we're defining to be that predatory, high-throughput attractor. Because it's not useful, how it trickled down into my perceivable reality is exclusion. Whether that's social, or all the different types of exclusion you can face. It took going through that to recognize it.
So you saying this in words is super affirming. It lets me know where I am as a systems thinker, and to know that I'm not the only one who could sense a sort of 'urge', the same one that drives the 'profit at any cost' behavior behind executive's fiduciary duty to shareholders, and defining that in such an example only illustrates a part of the whole that is this attractor.
I've been trying to build against this for a while @ https://github.com/prodbybuddha/dsgm ...though I started before I had language for what I was resisting. Seeing the pattern named helps me understand why certain design choices felt necessary but inexplicable at the time.
this is incredible thank you
Thanks for this. Powerful.