> The truth is like the sun. The light from the sun touches everything, it's bright and it's obvious... yet no one can stare directly at it.
bad analogy. It can be very painful to accept the truth, but doing so is always a good thing. Staring directly into the sun can cause permanent damage to your eyes -- not a good thing.
No this is not true. There is an evolutionary reason why people lie to themselves. Look at the world.
Almost everyone believes in religions. The world lies to themselves on an unprecedented scale. If accepting the truth had an evolutionary benefit then most of the world would not be so delusional. Delusion dominates the population because lying to oneself conveys a survival benefit such that natural selection selects for this trait.
This short infographic illustrates and proves it. But you know what else proves it? Me getting voted down as I throw the truth down in front of everyone’s faces. I’m a target for selection.
Maybe nix will one day be a tool that’s actually good. It has elements of it but complexity and usability hinder adoption. So overall nix is just shit imo. It’s shit wrapped in a dream, a dream of an ideal way to do things. How do we make that dream a reality?
By lying to ourselves. By claiming nix is already there and that other people can’t see the light such that over the years after enough improvements nix becomes an actual good tool because enough delusional people pushed the dream far enough that it actually happened. But in order to do that… people like me must be culled from the herd.
bad analogy. It can be very painful to accept the truth, but doing so is always a good thing. Staring directly into the sun can cause permanent damage to your eyes -- not a good thing.