Yet I have always been hopeful that humans would continue to evolve and find a way to share resources, overcome selfishness, and work for the good of all. We have made great progress in that regard over our history and have become more humane than we were when we first became Homo sapiens, however lately it seems we are now moving in the wrong direction. Is there hope for us?
Yet I have always been hopeful that humans would continue to evolve and find a way to share resources, overcome selfishness, and work for the good of all. We have made great progress in that regard over our history and have become more humane than we were when we first became Homo sapiens, however lately it seems we are now moving in the wrong direction. Is there hope for us?
If you take “evolution” to mean post-WW2 cooperation, I think we’re overestimating how much we’ve really improved. Honestly, if both sides didn’t have nukes, there probably would’ve been a full-blown WW3 by the late 1960s—and it would’ve been even more fucked up than what we have now.
What we see now is great, and believe me, I’d love nothing more than to live in peace and not give a shit about any of this. But that relative peace is mostly thanks to our ability to reduce scarcity—not eliminate it. The moment scarcity returns in a serious way, we’ll go right back to bashing each other’s heads in.
Yet I have always been hopeful that humans would continue to evolve and find a way to share resources, overcome selfishness, and work for the good of all. We have made great progress in that regard over our history and have become more humane than we were when we first became Homo sapiens, however lately it seems we are now moving in the wrong direction. Is there hope for us?
If you take “evolution” to mean post-WW2 cooperation, I think we’re overestimating how much we’ve really improved. Honestly, if both sides didn’t have nukes, there probably would’ve been a full-blown WW3 by the late 1960s—and it would’ve been even more fucked up than what we have now.
What we see now is great, and believe me, I’d love nothing more than to live in peace and not give a shit about any of this. But that relative peace is mostly thanks to our ability to reduce scarcity—not eliminate it. The moment scarcity returns in a serious way, we’ll go right back to bashing each other’s heads in.