+22 Humans are more concerned with the immediately inconvenient rather than the potentially catastrophic. amirite?

by Anonymous 4 years ago

true. short term memory is a survival mechanism.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

It's interesting how we have the self-awareness to recognize some issues as "potentially catastrophic" but yet still find more anxiety at how you're going to get to a gas station when your car is almost empty. I recognize it's a survival mechanism, but it's an old one that I don't think is really all that useful anymore.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

Its the same for car repairs, changing a $14 cv boot when its needed, or wait till its been split for a year n buy a $400 cv n shaft

by Anonymous 4 years ago

This is called cunningness, worry is normally a waste of imagination, that could be used to solve today's problems, rather than tomorrow's collapse.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

We're intelligent animals. But we're still animals. Evolution prepared us to tackle the more immediate problems that affect our individual survival and reproduction, not globally catastrophic future issues.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

To make sure no one gets the wrong impression, I'm not making a statement on "smh society today" although I can see where that vibe may come off.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

It's called Intertemporal Discounting or Delayed Reward Discounting. Important in social psychology and applied psychology.

by Anonymous 4 years ago

Yeah...**humans suck**

by Anonymous 4 years ago

Or even the inevitably catastrophic.

by Anonymous 4 years ago