🔪"pessimistic narratives about human nature prove more durable than their evidentiary basis alone would predict: They are not simply dramatic stories but institutionally useful ones in a field whose authority depends on identifying what is wrong with people & offering to fix it"

@robsica The pessimism should arise when we consider what goals we are seeking, not how rationally we seek them.

@DavidPinsof Exactly! My taste is for a morally pessimistic but/because cognitively optimistic view of human nature: everythingisbullshit.blog/p/a-big-misund…