Thread by @eldivyn

You know how you know an idea is a great one? Once you understand it, you start seeing it everywhere.

Examples: 1. Compounding. 2. Mimetic rivalry/envy.

The third one for me: immanetizing the eschaton.

What does this phrase mean, you ask?

Well, literal meaning is: "trying to bring about the kingdom of God on earth." In essence, it's attempting to make the world a perfect place, or to fix the world.

The idea is that people cause a lot of problems because they want to fix the world, they want to make it perfect.

A lot of problematic things in this world are caused by people who want to immanetize the eschaton. Example:

1. Karl Marx wanted to eliminate all class because he blamed social problems like hunger etc on class divisions caused by the "capital class". His solution was equality

and abolition of private ownership. Well, communism has caused so much destruction, death, poverty and lack.

2. Hitler, believe it or not, figured that eliminating all Jews was just step one. After that, a pure Aryan reich would purge all impure races and rule perfectly.

3. Osama Bin Laden and other terrorists believe in destroying the West and any other impure societies, restoring the caliphate and ruling the whole world according to the Quran.

4. Progressive ideology believes if we just x we can solve world peace, world hunger, oppression. Etc

5. Techno-optimism thinks there's a finite amount of technological development that will make all of our problems go away.

6. There's just a deeply embedded drive or instinct in most of us to see the world as fixable and pushes us to want to fix it.

All over the place you see this simple idea. "We can fix the world, if we only do x." This is the drive to immanetize the eschaton. And the sad truth is that not only will it never work, it's also the source of a lot of its own problems.

Some Christian denominations believe that this is the major appeal of the "AntiChrist". The person will come as a great solver of global problems.

Idk about that. My own observation is just that it's a pervasive instinct and it never works. You can't fix the world. Sorry.

But yeah once I recognized this idea I could suddenly see it everywhere. Including in myself.

But what I believe is something I think @markessien tweeted one time: "stop trying to fix the world. Solve one problem in your own corner of it."

Problem no Dey finish.