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Exactly. Every people in their own time considers their time as the most important, crucial and urgent. they consider past times as less important. If you obse
by thinkingemote 9y ago
Exactly. Every people in their own time considers their time as the most important, crucial and urgent. they consider past times as less important.
If you observe this then you can see that in the future people will look back at now and think the same. history tells us the same thing. it's human nature to think that doom and gloom now is much worse than before, simply because we are in this moment and without perspective.
- croon 9y agoBut that's not what GP was saying. We, today, have the ability to dictate what others tomorrow over- or under-appreciate as doom and gloom. Whether there is a cognitive dissonance is irrelevant, but what actually happens is very much only avoidable going forward, not looking back.
- amrrs 9y agoIn the same context, The debate between Malcolm Gladwell and Matt Riddley is an interesting one http://www.munkdebates.com/debates/progress http://www.munkdebates.com/debates/progress