Human society is full of situations that are broadly analogous to birds flying directly into windows or moths into lamps but it’s harder to tell because of the greater complexity.

— Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter (@drethelin) August 9, 2018

Thanks for putting in just a few words something I’d been thinking about for ages but hadn’t been able to condense into less than a book. The best I’d done was “bad idea trap,” but that’s only a bit related because what Misha is talking about and a “bad idea trap” aren’t really the same thing.

There are easily-avoidable calamities that we just don’t avoid. Hard to explain.