Imagine if we prepared for Covid back during influenza. Also we should of realize smoking is bad for you.
Some people do look ahead. Those people are diagnosed with mental health issues like general anxiety disorder.
Somewhere along the way Humanity lost the ability for long term thinking.
Submitted 10 months ago by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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the_q@lemmy.world 10 months ago
jeffw@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah, I missed the Im14andThusIsDeep subreddit. Thanks OP
snooggums@kbin.social 10 months ago
We did prepare, and other than some people who just contrarians who refuse to care about anyone else the general population did follow directions for the most part and we were able to avoid our health care systems completely collapsing.
If you didn't know, there have always been members of society that actively work against any kind of communal inconvenience that is for the greater good. During the (misnamed) Spanish Flu epidemic there were anti-maskers and people who intentionally undermined any public heath initiatives.
FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Should have*
nieceandtows@programming.dev 10 months ago
Should have* realized*
Leroy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ok and when in your opinion has it been different? Some things just aren’t so easily predictable and other things are predictable but people do not care because it mainly effects future generations and not them.
Always has been like that, always be
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We never had it, if we did the Romen Empire would be around and WW2 wouldn’t exist
paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I think what we lack is the understanding that just knowing the right thing to do doesn’t make it happen, individually or collectively. Because if you look at any of the issues we face you can find people talking about it a hundred, three hundred, a thousand years ago, but it’s like the solutions only get traction under some special lightning in a bottle circumstances. So you have to keep up the consciousness and the effort and especially creative inspiring things, and know that the failures are to be expected and the successes are so rare they need to be celebrated even when they are imperfect.
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Well said. What people fail to understand is that simply telling people how they should act is futile. You need to alter the conditions that cause people to develop dysfunctional social behaviors in the first place.
TyroTheFox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wee bit more complex than that usually.
blahsay@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Dude we only survive because we don’t look ahead. Imagine how bleak things would be if we couldn’t forget about the inevitable heat death of the universe, the sun expanding, and the thousand other inevitable world enders between here then then.
Now to drink so I can forget. 😅
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
That is 100,000,000,000 years from now. I’m talking about the next 100 years.
blahsay@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I didn’t explain well I feel.
Too much prescience causes anxiety which people shy away from. It takes maturity and courage to look at the future, particularly if it’s an inconvenient one. And yes, climate change is perfect example.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
*should have
People are good at having all the information in the world available and still making retroactively obvious mistakes
intensely_human@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I wonder if it’s connected to poor grammar? Is there any way that poor grammar could limit our ability to think long term?
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think it’s a correlation=/= causation thing
Dadifer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You mean not dismantle the NSC stations set up in Wuhan specifically made to avoid plagues such as COVID?
LufyCZ@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We’ve never had it
Sanctus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Our brains are physiologically wired for the short term. In the place we came from, there was no long term. The world before society was brutal. We are still running on that hardware.
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is the correct answer. Whatever long term thinking we are capable of is a result of the most recently evolved parts of our brain.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Our brains are physiologically wired for a longer term than any other brain in existence.
Human minds are the only thing we know of that has any awareness of the future. So on the scale of short term to long term, humans are the longest-term thinkers there are.