erratio comments on Open Thread: What are your important insights or aha! moments? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: erratio 12 November 2014 04:06:13PM 3 points [-]

Existential angst and worrying a ton about your obligation to society and so forth almost always turns out to be a projection of your worries about yourself onto society at large. You're not really worried about some abstract duty or obligation, instead you have a low opinion of your own competency/worthiness and are worried that other people will come to share that view if you're not able to measure up to some abstract standard,