This is actually touching on a real new approach to mental healthcare, which is just accepting that “life is shit” and you’re kinda on your own to find meaning in it, or get to the next high-point that makes it worth living.
We have to stop expecting things to be stable, normal and comfortable. We had a good, smooth run, things are going back to normal now.
Humanity having enough power that their mistakes can destroy the world isn’t normal. Our failure tolerances were calibrated in a world where the damage we did to nature was temporary. That’s not true anymore; we either get our act together now or go extinct.
Humanity having enough power that their mistakes can destroy the world isn’t normal.
As someone born in the cold war, I can’t relate. It’s always been this way as long as I’ve been alive, so if something has been a way as long as anyone can remember, I think it’s pretty safe to call it “normal” at least for our species. This is what we do, this is how we operate.
I really believe if we accepted that our human nature gives us a lot of very bad baggage and our entire conscious experience is often an illusion assembled by millions of years of evolution, and that we may never rise above our instincts, we actually might start making progress towards a more equitable future.
Kinda like when you’re an alcoholic or other kind of addict, if you finally accept that you have a problem, you learn eventually that you can’t trust yourself so you make measures ahead of time like hiding your wallet, disabling your credit card, etc. It’s wild that a lot of people consider very successful tactics like this to be a “cop out” and live in this delusion that we “should be better” and can somehow rise above our own natures. Like telling a fish it can fly if it really, really tries hard enough. It’s setting you up for failures and frustrations.
This is actually touching on a real new approach to mental healthcare, which is just accepting that “life is shit” and you’re kinda on your own to find meaning in it, or get to the next high-point that makes it worth living.
We have to stop expecting things to be stable, normal and comfortable. We had a good, smooth run, things are going back to normal now.
Humanity having enough power that their mistakes can destroy the world isn’t normal. Our failure tolerances were calibrated in a world where the damage we did to nature was temporary. That’s not true anymore; we either get our act together now or go extinct.
As someone born in the cold war, I can’t relate. It’s always been this way as long as I’ve been alive, so if something has been a way as long as anyone can remember, I think it’s pretty safe to call it “normal” at least for our species. This is what we do, this is how we operate.
I really believe if we accepted that our human nature gives us a lot of very bad baggage and our entire conscious experience is often an illusion assembled by millions of years of evolution, and that we may never rise above our instincts, we actually might start making progress towards a more equitable future.
Kinda like when you’re an alcoholic or other kind of addict, if you finally accept that you have a problem, you learn eventually that you can’t trust yourself so you make measures ahead of time like hiding your wallet, disabling your credit card, etc. It’s wild that a lot of people consider very successful tactics like this to be a “cop out” and live in this delusion that we “should be better” and can somehow rise above our own natures. Like telling a fish it can fly if it really, really tries hard enough. It’s setting you up for failures and frustrations.