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"Just re-read the ‘Winter (and thus Christmas) section. Will come back to it after the festive season." — Dec 15, 2024 02:39PM
"Just re-read the ‘Winter (and thus Christmas) section. Will come back to it after the festive season." — Dec 15, 2024 02:39PM
Garrett Hardin neatly encapsulated the human capacity for self-destruction in the theory that he called ‘the tragedy of the commons’. Because each exploiter sees the negative consequences of acting selfishly as being shared between all the
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This really stood out for me - but mainly not because of the context here, but because I see so many parallels with how people act generally these days.
“Because that’s what they were like. People. They gossiped. They celebrated the misfortune of others. They loved to hate as much as they loved their other sins and they always needed targets. That hate had to go somewhere otherwise it would chew them up inside and make them take a hard look at themselves and no-one likes to do that because they rarely like what they see.”
― Beastings
― Beastings
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