Because it’s mostly a lie people tell themselves, similar to ‘I’m sure I am a good person’. How are you so sure? There’s a lot of evidence that points to the f

Because it’s mostly a lie people tell themselves, similar to ‘I’m sure I am a good person’. How are you so sure? There’s a lot of evidence that points to the fact that on a global scale, we can barely care about stuff geographically adjacent to us, or worse, socially (class) adjacent to us, but here we are claiming we care about generations beyond us. Big old lie.