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This is the one and only answer. Every other comment in this thread can be deleted. Many - if not all - of the difficult modern sociological problems we face
by cbozeman 4y ago
This is the one and only answer. Every other comment in this thread can be deleted.
Many - if not all - of the difficult modern sociological problems we face are rooted in the inability for people to accept that while our technological understanding is, frankly, unfathomable compared to 100,000 years ago, our biology, our neurobiology, etc., is all still running under the software that was developed hundreds of thousands of years ago.
- pddpro 4y agoOr as I like to say, our Software might be up to date but our OS and BIOS are still legacy.
- Diris 4y agoThis is great. I'm putting this in my favorite comments.
- I_complete_me 4y agoIs your idea that Software could be an analogy for our worldview, OS could be an analogy for instincts and BIOS an analogy for genes or do you mean something entirely different to my interpretation?
- pddpro 4y agoPrecisely. There is a (now outdated) model called Truine Brain model which proposes three layers of intelligence: the cortex which is responsible for higher thinking/planning/executive functions, the limbic system responsible for 4Fs/emotions, and the basal gangalia/brainstem responsible for basic functions like movement, homeostasis and etc. It's uncanny how this matches closely with the Software/OS/BIOS analogy.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agoI'm skeptical that biology plays a significant role in this, it seems much more likely that it is a purely societal and cultural artefact.
- analog31 4y agoI just got done reading Jesus and John Wayne. A century or more of hammering it into boys and men that we're inadequate if we're not virulent warrior providers had to have predictable consequences, didn't it?
- anonporridge 4y agoWhere are the cultures that didn't hammer that into men? Cultures and societies are subject to the same kind of natural selection as individuals and species. Cultures that are self sustaining, defensible, and expansionary are the ones that win out in the end.
- amanaplanacanal 4y agoI suspect the commonalities have to do with essentially all of our cultures being agricultural for thousands of years. Before that was half a million years of being hunter gatherers, a completely different lifestyle. And now we are moving into an era when almost all of us will be city dwellers. I expect our culture will change a lot during that transition.
- anonporridge 4y agoI don't think city dwelling is going to be the driver of change. We've been doing that for thousands of years. It's the automation of force that will drive change to how we view maleness. The increasing reality is that strong, aggressive males aren't nearly as necessary in the battlefield for the defense of societies. A 100lb woman can pilot a drone and drop bombs just as well as a 300lb linebacker of a male. Humanoid robots are rapidly entering the scene and will start to replace human soldiers and police officers as the ground units of power projection. eSports will start to overshadow the NFL as we start socially valuing individual human strength less and less in favor of tactical and strategic ability to control robots. Societies have always used young males as disposable members who are thrown into the most dangerous and lethal jobs for the simple biological reality that wombs are scarce and sperm is not. If all of the lethal work gets automated away (a fantastic thing!) then that will be one of the most drastic changes to human social order that has ever happened.
- hdjjhhvvhga 4y agoYou have no idea how much this software can be changed with an consistent effort exerted over many decades.
- sbierwagen 4y agoFunny how the results of polyamory and responsible nonmonogamy in the Bay Area was “high status men having more sex with more people”. Wonder how that happened.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y agoYes we all know grooming works and it doesn't take decades. Though the government tries similar at the slower rate of decades.