Ask HN: What’s the most outrageous belief you’re confident is true?

Re:Ask HN: What’s the most outrageous belief you’re confiden... by xeromal on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @10:26PM (#29733186)

I've always appreciated Dan Carlin's line "climbing the ladder in wooden shoes and descending in silk slippers". Post WW2 was the pinnacle of our achievements and we've been coasting since. It's going to take something traumatic to make us hard and capable again or we're going to dry up what we have left and descend into disorder.

It takes hard people to build a functioning society.

I always hoped 9/11 would rejigger us, but I guess it's too late for that.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s the most outrageous belief you’re confiden... by hobs on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @10:30PM (#29733205)

Is that why pax romana lasted for 800 years or what? Imo the "hard people" meme needs to die.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s the most outrageous belief you’re confiden... by xeromal on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @10:33PM (#29733228)

I agree with you but Rome went through wax and wane phases for 800 years. Just because you were born in those 800 years doesn't mean life was good. Hell, 60-80% of those emperors were absolute shit or murdered before they could do anything.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s the most outrageous belief you’re confiden... by tmn on Thursday December 30, 2021 @12:33AM (#29733976)

Even if the meme dies, nature will reenforce it eventually. If you extend into the future past your expected life time this is inevitable.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s the most outrageous belief you’re confiden... by iab on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @11:01PM (#29733458)

It’s the old hard-men/easy times trope again

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