Hybrid #9

摘录 Cycles are so hard to predict, because it’s easier to forecast in straight lines. What’s almost impossible to detect in real time is the same forces fueling public opinion plant the seeds of their own demise. When times are good, people get complacent and stop caring about good governance. When times are bad they get fed up and say, “Enough of this.” And I think we’re not far from that today. I have a theory about nostalgia: It happens because the best survival strategy in an uncertain world is to overworry. When you look back, you forget about all the things you worried about that never came true. So life appears better in the past because in hindsight there wasn’t as much to worry about as you were actually worrying about at the time. ⤷ A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure About, Morgan Housel Why strive for pleasure? Why long for it? Because – contra the Bryan Johnsons of the world – we will die. “A counted number of pulses only,” Pater writes, “is given to us of a variegated, dramatic…

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