I don’t want to livelihood we’ve been adapted". We were adapted to run through grass from tree group to tree group while avoiding large predators. Dying horrible and often gruesome deaths. Or slowly withering away in pain thanks to a simple infection. Society can not exist in the way that we evolved. Again. Rose colored glasses.
ameancow@lemmy.world 6 days ago
We don’t get a choice about it. We have to have a society and we cannot live in any other way than we’ve evolved, so our societies are going to be a reflection of our natures.
But we’re intelligent and can mitigate the harmful parts our biological drives with cognition and we do this all day every day, but we still have biological imperatives that we can’t escape from.
You can choose to not consume cake because you know you’re not calorie-starved even though nature rewards you for it. You cannot however have good mental health while in isolation. Understanding what parts of our nature are flexible or what parts need to be managed around is the fundamental thing I’m talking about here. Just like you will be healthier if you eat more vegetables like we were adapted for, your society will be healthier if it values community like we’ve been adapted for.
You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.