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Interesting. What you are pointing to is how ill-equipped we chimpanzee relatives are for slowly arriving and -occuring events.
by quantified 1y ago
Interesting. What you are pointing to is how ill-equipped we chimpanzee relatives are for slowly arriving and -occuring events.
- bell-cot 1y agoI'd say that when human societies are longer-term stable, and not divided by powerful competing interests or culture wars, they can be very good at planning ahead. Doing so tends to be a signifier of legitimacy and status for the ruling class. In some ways, you could describe the climate-change mess as a broad social class, of well-to-do academics/scientists/progressives, imagining themselves to be the undisputed ruling class. They tried to order the whole world to do as they wished on the climate issue. That failed, because they pretty much live in a social bubble - not realizing that their "authority" ran very thin outside of that bubble, among peoples who they neither knew nor cared much about. So they doubled down on "But We're Right!". Now failing to realize (if not willfully blind to) the fact that "it's Science, and we're Right!" is a very good signifier of authority within their bubble...but not outside of it. From there - the climate believers are eager to compete for social status among themselves. But too anti-authoritarian to have or want any strong leaders - who might impose real discipline, or do some big-picture thinking. So the whole thing devolves into a stupid mess. The climate believers are busy arguing and posturing and proclaiming their creedal piety and one-upping within their own narcissistic bubble. Outside of that bubble, the climate believers look more like a bunch of callous creepy dangerous delusional nut jobs.