Listened to Eric Weinstein reading "The Nightmare That Is Reality", an essay by Arthur Koestler, published in the New York Times in January 1944. A moment where everyone knew about the holocaust—in the sense that sufficient facts were out there—but most were still in denial, few believed it _in their bones_. Koestler was one of "the screamers"—the people who knew and fully believed, and who were desperately trying to alert the others. Weinstein discusses the phenomenon of knowledge that we do not believe enough to act upon: "I knew everything but I couldn't bring myself to believe it." ## Backlinks * [[Brian Tomasik]] * Anyway, a bit like David Pearce, I appreciate Tomasik as someone who has dedicated a large chunk of his life to thinking and writing and screaming ([[Screamers]]) about the problem of suffering in public. I share the worry that we lucky ones tend towards obliviousness and complacency about the problem that has terrible consequences. Unlike them, I’m a “life lover”, with a strong intuition about the value of [[Cheerful axiology]]. <!-- #web/misc# --> <!-- {BearID:7A00C3E9-5653-47B4-8BCB-588F7CD76384-23743-000009350C4FAACE} -->