An insightful read - I appreciate it @hlezama! From my youth of reading modern and classic science fiction, I am drawn to contemplate the growth and decline of civilizations on a macro scale. I find most are only concerned with day to day, perhaps years or decades. What of centuries and aeons? A million years is really not much on the scale of the universe. How would our world change if more were inclined to consider the (near-unfathomably) big picture?
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Hi, @d-pend. You're right, a myopic view of humanity and their place in the big picture (if contemplated at all) has been the cause of much of what we suffer today and will suffer in the near future.
I guess it is too much for our overall processing mechanism to conceive that most of what will happen will happen regardless of our existence.
We will not be present to see what we want to see.
The immediacy of our reasoning skills puts us in a position of utter selfishness. Mega corporations today, for instance, exploit resources just thinking about cash for today, it does not matter for them that there will be scarcity tomorrow. They won't be here to see it, anyways, so why should they care?