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You Don’t Know Improvement (Unless You Improve Yourself)

You don’t know the “IMPROVEMENT”

You think you know, but you don’t

 

There’s not much you know BEFORE YOU TRIED IT, TESTED IT

Few things are knowable a priori

And the more complex the matter — the more testing it requires

The greater the scale — the more testing it requires,

And some matters are so large and so complex that NO amount of testing will bring ANY clarity. It’s pure chaos,

The only thing that’s knowable is whether it works or DOESN’T WORK

 

You prattle about PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT

about social justice and social progress,

about equality,

about saving this and saving that,

about a better world,

LIKE YOU HAVE A CLUE

 

You don’t have a clue

You couldn’t have a clue

I don’t have a clue either

Because we DON’T KNOW THE IMPROVEMENT

WE only know what WORKED HERETOFORE

 

We don’t know the improvement,

We only know that it SOUNDS GOOD IN THEORY

Sounds “FAIR” and “JUST” in theory

But we DON’T KNOW whether it would work or not,

We can’t know,

We can’t know unless we TEST IT,

And we can’t even easily do that

 

We can’t just easily “test it”, once and for all

We can’t SNAP our fucking fingers and instantly get ALL HE WAY THERE, instantly TRANSFORM the society, transform the world, instantly turn it upside down

The process is gradual

The process is gradual — therefore we introduce some “improvements”, and observe,

But what we observe can be meaningful or it can be meaningless,

You will see some changes, some data, perhaps some improvements, perhaps some drawbacks,

But foremost you will see NOISE

And what do we do with meaningless noise? We ASSIGN OUR OWN MEANING TO IT,

Therefore the conservatives will complain about the changes for the worse, disregard for tradition and values,

And the progressives will fucking whine about the steps being too small, too piecemeal, not radical enough, not revolutionary enough

 

Neither side has a clue

Both sides are great at talking (and politicking)

Both sides are great at explaining how the world works and the secretes of the universe

But the truth is we have no fucking clue

We only know that what WORKS — WORKS

What survived — LASTS

That’s all we know

We don’t know why,

And we for SURE don’t know how to improve it

 

And this is why the only thing that matters is WHAT YOU DID TODAY, WHAT YOU TANGIBLY IMPROVED TODAY

Only that is real

ONLY that is real,

And everything but what you DID TODAY — you’re INVARIABLY UTTERLY IGNORANT ABOUT

 

And everything but what you did today — you’re invariably utterly ignorant about

I don’t wanna hear about “views”

I don’t wanna hear your opinions

I don’t wanna hear how you’ll make this world a better place

YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CLUELESS ABOUT THOSE MATTERS

You can only have a clue about that which you CONSISTENCY, TANGIBLY IMPROVED, and TODAY

Everything else is a DISTRACTION

 

Now,

DOES IT MEAN WE CAN’T IMPROVE THIS WORLD?

OF COURSE NOT

We can

But

We just don’t know how,

We can’t know how

NOT exactly


I said you can IMPROVE YOUR LIFE

THAT you can do with certainty, reliably, and EVERY SINGLE DAY

It’s a slow process, it’s hard, but it’s REAL

If YOU can improve your life, perhaps i can improve my life

Perhaps he can improve his life and she can improve her life,

This is some REAL improvement

 

Perhaps you can SCALE it a little,

Perhaps you can IMPROVE the lives of those around you,

Perhaps you can positively affect more people,

TRULY positively

Perhaps you can

 

The more you scale — the more DIFFICULT it becomes

The less clear

The harder to control

The upside is joined by some downside,

You bring a desirable product or service to the world — but you’re “EXPLOITING the planet”,

You bring order to the society — but you’re “TRAMPLING over my liberty!”

You give to the poor, take care of the poor — but you’re taking from the rich and productive

Or you don’t take the resources from the productive (and rich) — but they’re not even productive any more, they’re merely exploitative

blablabla

 

SCALE IS UNAVOIDABLE, obviously

We didn’t choose to be “at scale”. We are at scale. We proliferated — now there’s a lot of us, we’re at scale

We do our best

We have to

But the GREATER THE SCALE — the more CAUTIOUS we must be

Because nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IS OBVIOUS AT SCALE,

It’s the closest to “obvious” at an individual level

 

Therefore,

I strongly suggest you shut the fuck up,

And only focus on what you can TANGIBLY IMPROVE TODAY IN YOUR REAL FUCKING LIFE

And when someone comes to you to harass you with his ideologies and “ideas” and IMPROVEMENTS of the world — tell him what i just told you

Tell him that he has NO FUCKING CLUE what he’s talking about,

And that most likely EVERY SINGLE PROGRESSIVE IDEA he has is NONSENSE,

And that progress AT SCALE has to be INVARIABLY MASSIVELY SLOW AND CAREFUL AND CAUTIOUS

Because we just CAN’T KNOW HOW THINGS WORK AT SCALE,

and if he’s at all interested in TRUE IMPROVEMENT, rather than IMAGINED IMPROVEMENT — then let’s talk about WHAT WE CAN IMPROVE TODAY, IN EACH OTHER’S LIVES

 

please be simple