If people were given a short look, just a glimpse, at what the *actual* future will be like only 10 or 20 years from now — we would have a panic on our hands.
But that’s not how life works. We can’t see into the future, and few of us try to imagine it in any detail. Most are too busy, too distracted, or too beaten down by the present.
So we don’t see. We can’t see. We are denied an accurate, honest awareness of how scary and how serious our present predicament is. In reality, it demands urgent drastic action.
And even if we do understand this intellectually, we keep putting off action until later because we’re too busy and too distracted… or maybe because it’s too frightening to think about.
If people were given a short look, just a glimpse, at what the *actual* future will be like only 10 or 20 years from now — we would have a panic on our hands.
But that’s not how life works. We can’t see into the future, and few of us try to imagine it in any detail. Most are too busy, too distracted, or too beaten down by the present.
@breadandcircuses part of the problem is that our drives are dictated by our instincts and emotions. We can understand that we will be in trouble in a decade at an intellectual level, but we have a much greater emotional attachment to the current self. This makes it hard to make sacrifices now for the abstract future version of yourself.
People inevitably end up prioritizing their current comforts and hoping that future problems will somehow get solved when the time comes.
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@breadandcircuses I dont think it even needs to be that far ahead,the next few years will be harsh for much of the world
@breadandcircuses Or because our options are limited by system problems and circumstances.
Hopefully then the answer is to fight to change the system.
@breadandcircuses part of the problem is that our drives are dictated by our instincts and emotions. We can understand that we will be in trouble in a decade at an intellectual level, but we have a much greater emotional attachment to the current self. This makes it hard to make sacrifices now for the abstract future version of yourself.
People inevitably end up prioritizing their current comforts and hoping that future problems will somehow get solved when the time comes.