Rahobo Eliminates Difficult People
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In the Deep Dive, Gene posed a great question. If you are a parent of 5 kids, 3 are awesome, but 2 could potentially screw up the lives of the others, do you get rid of the assholes? This really got my brain juices going. I paused the podcast and said to myself “this is why I listen.” It really made me think critically about what Serac is doing when he eliminates the outliers.
Serac claims he has created a machine that can save the world. But has he really? His machine only works if he can eliminate the difficult people. I work in inner city education and this issue comes up a lot. A lot of school leaders claim they could run the perfect school, if only they could get rid of the trouble making students. I reject this idea. If you cannot be a successful principal with the student population you were assigned, then you are not a good principal.
This microcosm applies to Serac’s system and governments in general. If your solution to good governing is get rid of the nonconformists, then you are an authoritarian. Serac thinks his machine is so powerful and so noble, but he has taken a major short cut. Creating a utopia is easy if you only have normal people.
What I find most distasteful about Serac’s view of the world, is that he resents the people for disrupting his means of control. In the real world, it is the other way around. The people are not the problem. The means of control are the problem.
Jeff H
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Your point related to school is brilliant. I think the question of what is sacrificed for the greater good is important and a different answer for everyone, especially when you are in the group in danger of being sacrificed.