Good post. I'm also in favor of not saying "the world is insane" any more, and instead (if anything) pointing out the specific failure mode that you think may exist. This seems better for a bunch of reasons; among others, learning to diagnose failure modes occurring in non-rationalists should be useful for learning to see failure modes among rationalists (e.g. I don't see any reason in particular why we couldn't have, say, counterproductive status-seeking/status-preservation in the rationalist community--seems like a coordination problem that rationality itself doesn't necessarily have a magic-bullet solution to). I've kinda been meaning to write a post on this.