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Anxiety is maladapted for the modern world. Everyday situations in our ancestral past were legitimately dangerous so in that context it paid to be excessively c
by hackerlight 3y ago
Anxiety is maladapted for the modern world. Everyday situations in our ancestral past were legitimately dangerous so in that context it paid to be excessively cautious.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoIts honestly getting to that point though, and, depending on the robustness of your support network and economic situation, it can actually get that bad or worse.
- clnq 3y agoYes, but we are one proverbial red button away from nuclear hell on Earth no ancestor could have prepared for, where a lot of anxiety will translate into a lot of lives being saved. So we’re not too far from being adapted to the modern world. It’s just that temporarily things are going well - there are no famines, no lawlessness, and no wars. As soon as we return to chaos even a bit, all those thrifty genes and anxious genes won’t be so maladaptive. There doesn’t even need to be a world-ending scenario. Just go live outside an urban center, among wild animals, and all these genes will help you.