askchapo

You get really bright people swept up into this kind of, well, like world that privileges them and insulates them, and most minds are going to become immersed in that and assume that the institution is good and beyond reproach. They're inside it and see no problem, so external detractors must clearly be wrong. They don't know "how it really is", after all.

You can honestly cultivate a system that blinds people to certain kinds of realities outside of their own experience, and the top end of nearly any org that exists under capitalism is going to deal with this a bit or a lot, depending on how much they believe in the system.

I don't think it's about good or bad or ignorant and enlightened. I think perfectly good people end up being servants to bad things, and end up taking in bad views that poisons their soul.

It's hard to not give into a sense that "this is entirely by design" - and I think especially with people who have a high level of abstract intelligence and low social intelligence kind of need exposure to unpleasant things to understand their own position in things. Without it you have a society that will elevate, isolate, and surround you with people who think very similarly to you - you will have nothing but monetary, social, and experiential affirmation of increasingly ghoulish views.

It's like Amigara Fault - you can't go down these paths and stay what you entered the hole as. It will twist you up, and again, i think it's by design.