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We're on trajectory technologically but not sociologically.

• nosuchthing 11y ago
  "We eat in restaurants, buy branded toiletries, build skyscrapers, create legislative institutions, travel in flying machines, write poetry, and search for meaning in relationships, temples, and scientific books. Humans have discovered antibiotics, sent probes into space, decimated rainforests, shared a billion views of clips of kitten behaviour, and decoded their own genomes. But there is one thing that humans have singularly failed to do, and that is to properly understand their own behaviour. " — Robert Aunger and Valerie Curtis: Gaining Control: How human behavior evolved [0] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gaining-control-9780199688951?cc=us&lang=en& https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gaining-control-9780...