Humanity having enough power that their mistakes can destroy the world isnāt normal.
As someone born in the cold war, I canāt relate. Itās always been this way as long as Iāve been alive, so if something has been a way as long as anyone can remember, I think itās pretty safe to call it ānormalā at least for our species. This is what we do, this is how we operate.
I really believe if we accepted that our human nature gives us a lot of very bad baggage and our entire conscious experience is often an illusion assembled by millions of years of evolution, and that we may never rise above our instincts, we actually might start making progress towards a more equitable future.
Kinda like when youāre an alcoholic or other kind of addict, if you finally accept that you have a problem, you learn eventually that you canāt trust yourself so you make measures ahead of time like hiding your wallet, disabling your credit card, etc. Itās wild that a lot of people consider very successful tactics like this to be a ācop outā and live in this delusion that we āshould be betterā and can somehow rise above our own natures. Like telling a fish it can fly if it really, really tries hard enough. Itās setting you up for failures and frustrations.
As someone born in the cold war, I canāt relate. Itās always been this way as long as Iāve been alive, so if something has been a way as long as anyone can remember, I think itās pretty safe to call it ānormalā at least for our species. This is what we do, this is how we operate.
I really believe if we accepted that our human nature gives us a lot of very bad baggage and our entire conscious experience is often an illusion assembled by millions of years of evolution, and that we may never rise above our instincts, we actually might start making progress towards a more equitable future.
Kinda like when youāre an alcoholic or other kind of addict, if you finally accept that you have a problem, you learn eventually that you canāt trust yourself so you make measures ahead of time like hiding your wallet, disabling your credit card, etc. Itās wild that a lot of people consider very successful tactics like this to be a ācop outā and live in this delusion that we āshould be betterā and can somehow rise above our own natures. Like telling a fish it can fly if it really, really tries hard enough. Itās setting you up for failures and frustrations.