Unpopular Opinion
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Vote the opposite of the norm.
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Guidelines:
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- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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I'm not convinced your concept of your concept of concentration sending people insane. There's no evidence of that, unless you'd like to share some?
I think those groups (and the lawyers you mention) are made up of broard cross sections of the population. As with the general population, they include people who have empathy and compassion and people who don't. Those with empathy and compassion try to benefit everyone, those without try to benefit themselves. Sadly engineers, scientists, artists and lawyers who only seek to benefit themselves will consider and act on developing unethical things (weapons, toxic materials, propaganda, defending people doing unethical things).
I think the people who control the world tend to be the people with power, a group also made up of people with/without empathy and compassion. The groups you list who do unethical things might be included in the group of those with power, but they might also just be benefiting themselves by helping those with power but without empathy and compassion. The control remains with those with power.
When you concentrate on a thing you ignore pretty much everything else. Do it enough and that ignoring becomes blindness. And habitual.
Now your world is just a sliver of what it once was. But you still call this sliver "the world", of course. And upon this sliver is all your reasoning based.
That's what I'm calling insanity.
Those who concentrate best tend to succeed in our society. They achieve the goals, climb the ladder, implement the truth. The rest of us are slackers comparatively.
They are the ones with the greatest power. These alpha concentrators. And they are the most visibly insane.
But even the moderate concentrators have great power. A million software engineers surely have a power equal to a single billionaire businessman.
Ok, I'm having a slow arvo so I'll throw you a bone and try to explain what's going on here.
Everything you've said here, you talk about as if it is a given that it's true. e.g. "When you concentrate on a thing you ignore pretty much everything else. Do it enough and that ignoring becomes blindness. And habitual.". The reason people are laughing at these claims is because its just provably false, at least as an ironclad rule. Most people know people or know of people that this just isn't the case for. I personally know a bunch of scientists, artists and engineers who are highly successful at their job and also very well rounded people with a wide range of interests. Even if there was some general data on tendencies towards the kind of behaviour you claim, you don't provide it.
So, the fact that your "unpopular opinion" is based on a fact that basically only you in the entire world believe to be true, means that everyone thinks your post here is nonsense, crazy, a very young child, or trolling. I assume you've had some experience with the kind of people you're talking about, but even if every single person you ever met had this exact characteristic it would still be a hopelessly small sample size to make any claims about the population at large. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and you provide exactly zero proof for this extraordinary claim.
I think that you don't notice the insanity because you share the insanity. It is normal to you and therefore not insane.
I think that concentration is inherently deranging but, again, normal in our society. Common and therefore invisible. (I am aware of its effects because it is something I study, unlike you and most others. Think of it as a kind of germ theory and I'm Pasteur)
I think that I am treated! this way because my opinion is offensive to these people. And that offense is a barrier to any further thought.
But I hope that, for some, a little offense isn't such a barrier.
Nobody is taking you seriously enough to get offended.
You insulted me 3 times in your previous reply and once more just now. Most of the other replies have included an insult as well.
When you insult you do so because you are offended. This much is obvious.
So who are you fooling here?
If people are insulting you its because you're just being pretty obnoxious and childish. It's easy to get annoyed by someone who is convinced that they are right and everybody else is wrong, especially when they are so obviously wrong.
I mean, I assume you're a troll? I don't get offended by trolls. But I engaged with you here on the off chance that you're not, hoping that you might see some reason. But instead you've just doubled down on your own crazy ideas. Like, best of luck to you (if you are indeed genuine), you seem relatively harmless. Try and broaden your horizons, it'll do you good.
Right back at you.