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you're being too fixated on individuals. everyone's doing the same thing: avoiding pain, uncertainty, and the limitation of their future choices; seeking pleasu
by pasquinelli 1y ago
you're being too fixated on individuals. everyone's doing the same thing: avoiding pain, uncertainty, and the limitation of their future choices; seeking pleasure, security, and to increase their future choices. the very few people who aren't doing that don't matter: history unfolds because people do what makes sense for them, not because some don't.
- worthless-trash 1y agoI think you're being too fixated on your own perspective. History is nothing but the individual having a large blast radius. History ABSOLUTELY unfolds the way it does because they were tired of being 'taking the reasonable/way that makes sense path'. You can argue that every invention from the wheel forward has had this approach.
- pasquinelli 1y ago> History ABSOLUTELY unfolds the way it does because they were tired of being 'taking the reasonable/way that makes sense path'. i think we're talking at cross purposes. quoting myself: >> ...everyone's doing the same thing: avoiding pain, uncertainty, and the limitation of their future choices; seeking pleasure, security, and to increase their future choices. do you think that doesn't characterize the motivating factors that lead to invention?
- worthless-trash 1y agoRe-reading what was said, I believe we might be cross talking. The 'reasonable way' that most people believe is to 'do it as its always been done'. > do you think that doesn't characterize the motivating factors that lead to invention? We as humans tend to to believe that this is the easiest path. Inventors and innovators are not a majority in the population, often popularized as outcasts or outliers in society through popular story tale. Only in the last few decades has this narrative changed, but I can agree that indirectly yes, these avoid pain, uncertainty and limitation of their future choices.