The core problem is that we are hard-wired for scarcity. Our brains think we are on the African savannah 100,000 years ago. When things get a little tough we cl

The core problem is that we are hard-wired for scarcity. Our brains think we are on the African savannah 100,000 years ago. When things get a little tough we clutch and build fortresses. This can make sense as an individual, but collectively it hasn't made sense since the industrial revolution (and maybe even a bit earlier). Today the proper collective response to depression is to double down. Economy failing? Double spending. Things look stagnant and bleak? Increase our ambition by at least an order of magnitude. The problem is that we are thinking too small. A civilization of our scale should be thinking beyond the planet, beyond history, and beyond the current biological definition of human. Anything less is a waste of our effort.