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Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things
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this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2024
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Is there a solution to this problem?
Time ..... and I don't mean waiting a few years for some grand revolutionary way of thinking.
I mean evolutionary time scales of hundreds or even thousands of years for our species to evolve away from our cave man prehistoric mentalities.
When you graph out the age of our current species, we are closer to our prehistoric ancestors than we like to think. We are still a developing species that is built more for survival and aggression than as a modern technologically advanced society.
I have an old friend of mine who puts it more simply as "we are just monkeys driving cars"
The answer is time ..... a lot of time ..... for us to grow out of our old mentalities. Hopefully we can have that time.