> Its often a human mistake to think that right now is the most important time ever because it is literally the moment we are in. With the perspective of histor

> Its often a human mistake to think that right now is the most important time ever because it is literally the moment we are in. With the perspective of history and with the imagination for the future you can start to see how what we think is the most urgent things maybe not so, and you can see how small changes elsewhere might be the best thing for the future. I agree. Another form of cognition error is our tendency to conceptualize things in Boolean terms, such as whether: - now is the "most important time ever" (and therefore we should seriously consider doing something about it), or it isn't (and therefore no action is required) or - now is plausibly an extremely important time (and therefore we should should seriously consider doing something about it) On its face, this distinction may seem excessively pedantic and trivial, and it very well may be, but it also very well may not be. I believe that if one can manage to practice this sort of thinking skilfully, that it can help inoculate one from confusing heuristic predictions about reality, with objective reality itself (which seems to be an extremely common behavior regardless of internet forum).