I'll bet we're still hairless apes 1,000 years from now, as we were 1k yr ago. Than, as now, we'll be just as silly and waste about as much of our time on stupid shit.
"we need to change for the modern world" is just one of the silly things we waste our time on. We ain't gonna change, perhaps we should build our world and calibrate our expectations in light of that?
Agreed! Though there are also times when our hairless-ape-ness can be a good thing -- for example, sometimes good things come from our irrational tendency to obsess over singular pursuits. Think about all the companies that make great products that would never have made it big if the founder hadn't been completely delusional!
(author here) I totally agree, we shouldn't be trying to bring down the perception of the species! It's just useful to be mindful/remember sometimes that we are still animals, which means we're still going to be predisposed to want to do stupid irrational animal things. Understanding the source of those instincts can help in bridling them.
I'll bet we're still hairless apes 1,000 years from now, as we were 1k yr ago. Than, as now, we'll be just as silly and waste about as much of our time on stupid shit.
"we need to change for the modern world" is just one of the silly things we waste our time on. We ain't gonna change, perhaps we should build our world and calibrate our expectations in light of that?