Now I'm imagining getting to the final screen of a level, and there is an old dude in a suit sitting at a table in a restaurant with a giant health bar above his head, and your character stands there for a moment wondering what to do. You try to attack the old dude, and he simply nods at a group of goons that were off to the side, and the goons take you out. After many tries at beating the boss through his goons, you realize that the only way to win is to join the mob, gain the confidence of one or more goons, then flip them onto your side and build a RICO case. The boss healthbar drops as the fear and loyalty of his gang gets drained away. Suddenly he's just an old dude at a table, soon to be led away in handcuffs.
This is similar to the power and capability of athletes at the highest level: above and beyond their physical capabilities and talent, they build an aura and gravity that makes opponents act differently, which can be exploited. In basketball, this could be a player that has a reputation of being so good that opposing teams have to double or triple team them, leaving more floorspace for teammates to operate and score more easily. This doesn't show up on the stat sheet, but is an obvious effect once noticed.
Connor - solid framing of why institutions collapse.
The power isn't in the physical structure. It's in the collective belief that the structure deserves the power it claims.
When that belief erodes (often due to an increasing imbalance of self-interest over consideration) - when enough people stop setting that variable in their heads - the boss loses his goons, the dollar loses its value, the institution loses its authority.
This is happening in real time across every major institution simultaneously.
The extraction pattern that built the collective belief is now consuming it. Self-interest without consideration doesn't just weaken the structure - it deletes the variable in other people's minds that made the structure real.
What replaces it is determined by what people build their belief around next.
When proper consideration is given, beliefs are strengthened and become a force multiplier.
Reminds me of a concept I encountered in Sapiens. Harari speaks of money, government, etc. as shared ideas believed by many people.
Very interesting to go down this rabbit hole. But I’m not sure what the practical takeaways are for us - perhaps operating under the guise of a “permission-less society,” i.e. us having the courage to pursue ideas and put them out into the world without waiting for permission to do so.
I don't know why but somehow the big swirling events combined with simplistic ideas do combine somehow to make interest. Try reading my unbelievable article titled: the extraordinarily Deep Roots of this ancient Paradigm of the monks, and then the incredible universal consciousness concept in: guess what just happened.
Now I'm imagining getting to the final screen of a level, and there is an old dude in a suit sitting at a table in a restaurant with a giant health bar above his head, and your character stands there for a moment wondering what to do. You try to attack the old dude, and he simply nods at a group of goons that were off to the side, and the goons take you out. After many tries at beating the boss through his goons, you realize that the only way to win is to join the mob, gain the confidence of one or more goons, then flip them onto your side and build a RICO case. The boss healthbar drops as the fear and loyalty of his gang gets drained away. Suddenly he's just an old dude at a table, soon to be led away in handcuffs.
This is similar to the power and capability of athletes at the highest level: above and beyond their physical capabilities and talent, they build an aura and gravity that makes opponents act differently, which can be exploited. In basketball, this could be a player that has a reputation of being so good that opposing teams have to double or triple team them, leaving more floorspace for teammates to operate and score more easily. This doesn't show up on the stat sheet, but is an obvious effect once noticed.
This is a GREAT description of how "boss battles" are won in the real world!
Connor - solid framing of why institutions collapse.
The power isn't in the physical structure. It's in the collective belief that the structure deserves the power it claims.
When that belief erodes (often due to an increasing imbalance of self-interest over consideration) - when enough people stop setting that variable in their heads - the boss loses his goons, the dollar loses its value, the institution loses its authority.
This is happening in real time across every major institution simultaneously.
The extraction pattern that built the collective belief is now consuming it. Self-interest without consideration doesn't just weaken the structure - it deletes the variable in other people's minds that made the structure real.
What replaces it is determined by what people build their belief around next.
When proper consideration is given, beliefs are strengthened and become a force multiplier.
COLLAPSE IS OPTIONAL.
Reminds me of a concept I encountered in Sapiens. Harari speaks of money, government, etc. as shared ideas believed by many people.
Very interesting to go down this rabbit hole. But I’m not sure what the practical takeaways are for us - perhaps operating under the guise of a “permission-less society,” i.e. us having the courage to pursue ideas and put them out into the world without waiting for permission to do so.
I don't know why but somehow the big swirling events combined with simplistic ideas do combine somehow to make interest. Try reading my unbelievable article titled: the extraordinarily Deep Roots of this ancient Paradigm of the monks, and then the incredible universal consciousness concept in: guess what just happened.