So this is another Handmade series that you need to extrapolate knowledge if you want to follow on Linux, right? Nothing against it, of course, but, since I'm new to game programming, trying to learn SDL as I learned this stuff back in Handmade Hero was a huge pain, I couldn't get past the 14th episode or so.
I believe Aristoteles said something on those lines a long time ago. I don't see this flipping anything on its head. The conventional function-driven thought of the human being, as if everyone had to perform a duty, and to make the world better - and, even if they had to, what exactly makes the world better? For the sheep, a world without eagles would be better - but the eagles aren't bad, they just have to eat.
Or, maybe, I just didn't understand what he meant =]