>>9823403when you learn something you tend to try to reshape the entire world in it's image. if you learn a lot of things you begin to control this bias.
eg. the mathematicians and computer scientists who built computers and networks thought they were creating a tool to liberate mankind from the drudgery of working in a factory doing repetitive manufactorium minutia. they just replaced the assembly line with the keyboard and mouse. they were idealists and socialists who did not understand how their inventions would impact the economics and social games people play in the real world, and of course they did not monetize correctly and barely get any credit in the modern day for their contributions.
there are two extreme positions you can fall into if you read or learn a bit too much- one is some kind of rapacious desire to control the world because you have discovered the perfect shape to align it to. the other is a feeling of helpless nostalgia and emptiness because you are living in a time that does not resemble the various abstractions and beautiful symmetries you have come to appreciate from your education.
the correct approach is the asian one, namely of pragmatic forwardness of direction towards something better than the present while keeping some harmony and sympathy for the past which led you here. this is why so many intellectual types are drawn to buddhism, because it is secular hinduism, and removes the mysticism from an otherwise straightforward message, do the right thing. personally i think buddhism is nihilistic satanism promoted by an elite underground co-evolved aquatic hominid species which has tried to dominate and rule mankind like pieces on some land map out of sheer boredom or curiosity, the same way we build habitats for animals we are interested in. but when you learn too much you start believing in some crazy shit, so don't go too far with it.
