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Your last paragraph seems to be missing a verb: "more about hoping climate change deniers just how reprehensibly they've handled this entire thing". I guess de

Your last paragraph seems to be missing a verb: "more about hoping climate change deniers just how reprehensibly they've handled this entire thing". I guess denial is a tough shell, some people even manage to be world leaders even if they deny reality all the way. We are some funny irrational apes aren't we...

jfengel 3y ago
Thank you. I've edited it. I don't mind that we're irrational apes. It's just that all of the other apes don't go around telling each other how rational they are and demanding that we keep providing proof over and over.
no_wizard 3y ago
I watched a movie on Netflix called Leave The World Behind. In it, there are 3 distinct families that are faced with an unknown event occurring in real time. Family one is calm and logical. Has a good idea of what’s going on but up until the very end doesn’t believe it could be that. Family two is a couple where the wife is someone who’s natural demeanor is “People Suck” and the husband is a professor (re: intelligent) but still entirely uninformed about the world, having resigned any sense of responsibility to anything but his family The third is a conservative “prepper” type, who is similar to family one but believes everything is the work of outside forces who “hate the US” to be at fault, missing many signs of dysfunctional society around them (while being aware of a few others) Why am I bringing this up? Because my thesis is that the middle familty represents the average American mindset, which is truly only concerned with their immediate problems and thoughts at the end of the day and is incapable of reasoning about the importance of solving major problems facing society. The other two families seek to sway as many people from this average bloc as much as possible to their causes, but both also have a fatal flaw: they’re unable to believe that it’s our own society that is at fault, either entirely or until it’s too late, and the kind of honest reflection it takes to have that very real conversation with ourselves and the country as a whole. That, in essence, is what I think is the root of the problem

jfengel 3y ago

Thank you. I've edited it. I don't mind that we're irrational apes. It's just that all of the other apes don't go around telling each other how rational they are and demanding that we keep providing proof over and over.

no_wizard 3y ago

I watched a movie on Netflix called Leave The World Behind. In it, there are 3 distinct families that are faced with an unknown event occurring in real time. Family one is calm and logical. Has a good idea of what’s going on but up until the very end doesn’t believe it could be that. Family two is a couple where the wife is someone who’s natural demeanor is “People Suck” and the husband is a professor (re: intelligent) but still entirely uninformed about the world, having resigned any sense of responsibility to anything but his family The third is a conservative “prepper” type, who is similar to family one but believes everything is the work of outside forces who “hate the US” to be at fault, missing many signs of dysfunctional society around them (while being aware of a few others) Why am I bringing this up? Because my thesis is that the middle familty represents the average American mindset, which is truly only concerned with their immediate problems and thoughts at the end of the day and is incapable of reasoning about the importance of solving major problems facing society. The other two families seek to sway as many people from this average bloc as much as possible to their causes, but both also have a fatal flaw: they’re unable to believe that it’s our own society that is at fault, either entirely or until it’s too late, and the kind of honest reflection it takes to have that very real conversation with ourselves and the country as a whole. That, in essence, is what I think is the root of the problem