Useful Truth

Useful Truth

A friend told me there's no such thing as altruistic action.

He's right. And so am I.

We don't actually have access to external truth. Both descriptions

of a given act — "this is altruism" from the inside, "this is a

power-move dressed as kindness" from the outside — can fit the

same facts. Neither is de facto wrong.

Which means the real question isn't which framework is TRUE.

It's which one is ADAPTIVE.

A depressed mind is infected with maladaptive frameworks —

pointing at true things in a way that makes the life unlivable.

A lot of what passes for cold-eyed realism is the same move:

maladaptive selection dressed up as epistemic virtue.

The frame you inhabit shapes what you do next.

What you do next, repeated across years, is most of your life.

When two frameworks fit the facts equally, the one that makes your

life workable is not the cowardly choice.

Your framework is a choice. Make the right choice.

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