War Club Chapt 24/25 Qs

Right after Ali’s historical example there’s a phrase that called my attention. “We learn that being different comes with a social price”. I think that this “social price” is a human mechanism developed through evolution so that common knowledge, like a poisonous plant or that standing in the rain makes you sick, is shared and followed. We, as a society, make certain rules that if not followed are linked to a negative consequence, and that’s why people gets judgmental towards those who don’t follow the “rules”. Nowadays those rules have become more and more abstract and superficial, making some of this conventions quiet restraining. How can we balance this? At the end of the day following others and the rules has taken us were we are today, as individuals and as a society. How can you know when you are being too unconventional?

I could only imagine how scared those people where of the Windigokan. Those guys are like something out of a horror movie. 

Ray Riddle

As a top fan of the NFL chapter 24 hit really hard. Every two or three seasons a team will incorporate a new strategy that kills their opponents. The rest of the league copies it until the defensive minds figure out an effective way to stop the new strategy and then it's gone with the wind. Is there anything that your a fan of or participate in where the ordinary/extraordinary strategy is highly effective?

The deeper we get into the book, the more it feels like quantity over quality, with quite a bit of redundancy. In chapter 24, it's about setting and subverting expectations. Feels like we've talked about this before. But can you give an example where you conciously set and then subverted expectations with a positive result? On the moral high ground: can you talk about at what point you think those who pretend to be virtuous while clearly being the biggest of schemers eventually break the system? That is, what is the point of popular uprising against them?

PJ B