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RE: The illusion of political division: Take a step back and understand why we constantly disagree

in Science5 years ago

Thanks for dropping by - our existence does surprise me too, though when we think of larger timescales we havent actually lasted as long as we like to think. Our boom-bust cycle into extinction could occur in an overall blink of an eye of say, 12,000 years or so which is nothing compared to literally every other species to exist. We'd just leave a lot more trash behind.

But we can also approach this all evolutionarily, in how our brains always find the path of least resistance because that was the best way to survive on assumptions yadda yadda, so it kind of makes sense how we're so useless at the things we supposedly value. I guess we're just transitioning to become entirely separate from the relentless force of evolutionary tendencies, and we're living through all the side effects.