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Somewhere along the way Humanity lost the ability for long term thinking. (lemmy.zip)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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Imagine if we prepared for Covid back during influenza. Also we should have realize smoking is bad for you.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 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.