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I love listening to Heather and Bret when they talk about biology. What irks me most is when Bret starts talking about how our society isn't sustainable and th
by lliamander 7y ago
I love listening to Heather and Bret when they talk about biology.
What irks me most is when Bret starts talking about how our society isn't sustainable and that we need to rethink society by incorporating insights from game theory and evolutionary biology. On that score, he is frustratingly vague. I don't even think I would likely agree with him, but without something more concrete there's nothing there for me to analyze. Perhaps I just haven't found the right podcast or whatever where he goes into exactly what he means by that.
- lukifer 7y agoTotally understood. I don't think Bret claims to have a good answer to the problem. I think his thesis is that we're in such uncharted territory, facing multiple existential crises, that none of the thought technologies that helped us up to this point (religion, democracy, capitalism, even scientific materialism) are necessarily going to suffice for us to survive/thrive into the 21st century. The common-ancestor driving force of those social technologies are genetic selection pressures, which he argues we should consciously and intentionally counter-act. One might fairly claim that that's a quixotic pipe-dream, given that our nature has been shaped by that force for a billion years; but the highly plausible opposing argument is that the alternative is extinction (if not of the species, then perhaps of civilization). For more proactive ideas on constructing a social operating system for the 21st century and beyond, take a look at the "Game B" model from Jim Rutt, Jordan Hall, and many others: https://medium.com/@memetic007/a-journey-to-gameb-4fb13772bcf3 https://medium.com/@memetic007/a-journey-to-gameb-4fb13772bc... https://medium.com/@jordangreenhall https://medium.com/@jordangreenhall
- lliamander 7y agoThanks!