There are those who believe that “the strong always win competition.”
- My own experience of winning the competition reinforces this belief.
- Observing that the strong lose to competition through luck weakens them.
- If you yourself lose the competition,
- I consider myself weak → learned helplessness.
- I think I am strong, but luck and the world are not right, so I don’t think I am valued correctly → ressentiment.
When this belief is strong, it creates the interpretation that “the reason we lose to competition is because we are weak.”
- As a result, no matter what we observe, the belief that “the strong always win the competition” will not be overridden.
This is interesting because it is both a human bug that derails individual cognition and Structural Problems in the Human System.
Inspired by
- https://twitter.com/potato_gnocchi/status/1154760753905201153
- I don’t know if the content of this statement is true, of course.
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