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"It's only going to get worse."
That's the theme going forward for humanity. The older I get, the more I realize humans just aren't intelligent enough, as a whole, to adapt to a world changing at an ever increasing rate, requiring a larger percentage of humanity to work in unison to accomplish goals.
It's looking more and more like we're a failed experiment.
Our selfish survival instincts that allowed us to get to where we are now will also be our downfall.
We didn't get here through selfishness though. That's the saddest thing. Human development has always been inherently cooperative. The tribe survived what killed the individual.
I'm not denying humans can be selfish. But societal selfishness on the scale we have now has to be enforced on some subliminal level in my opinion.
Behavioral, not subliminal. Interacting through a market selects for individual, atomized behaviors from people and corrodes social spaces that used to exist outside the exchanging of money and goods.
We're cooperative with our tribe, but selfish with everything else. What an individual's tribe is varies from person to person.
It's not about intelligence, it's about mass manipulation starting from the youngest age. Intelligence isn't an inherent trait, it is taught. And the system has been perfected to ingrain fear and ignorance or apathy and tiredness in our minds.
It's not about the species being "stupid", that narrative is part of the poison that manipulates us, and is ultimately, an incredibly stupid thing
If I put my hand on a stove. It hurts. I learn not to do that again.
If I live in a region that has been controlled by a specific party for generations and life sucks, and I keep voting for that party, then I'm stupid.
If I'm suffering the effects of global warming after professionals have spent decades telling me it was happening, and I choose to continue ignoring it, I'm stupid.
You're trying to absolve ADULTS from the responsibility of self-education. Of learning from experience.
There's a lot of misinformation out there. But adults shouldn't be waiting for someone to tell them what to think. It's their responsibility to learn from obvious mistakes. There are plenty of people in history that have left organized religion because they learned, through experience, that it was bullshit. That means anyone that isn't willfully ignorant can do the same.
I'm not trying to absolve anyone, saying someone is stupid is not accountability, it's just a cathartic insult. I'm just saying that free will is cultivated, not absolute, and the choices that people have available are often invisible to them. Everyone has a responsibility to do better, but it would be blind to ignore the tunnel vision our system imposes.
Trying to be all high and mighty and stroking our ego feeling "smarter" than poor assholes who never knew anything different is part of the reason anti intellectualism is so rampant