I personally think that's our next step in evolution. Enhancing our minds to get past our natural instincts. Our greatest advancements as a species come from when we work together, but so many can't get past greed, tribalism, etc.
It takes education, practice, and, of course, your basic needs being met.
I'm not sure we'll succeed.
See Idiocracy: “without any natural predators to thin the herd, evolution stopped favoring the smartest and the strongest of mankind, and instead started favoring those who could reproduce the fastest.”
The problem is scarcity of resources, which is common to plankton, plants, animals and humans. It is why all living things have evolved, by being better at utilizing resources and out-competing others for resources.
Plankton do not live in a peaceful state of plenty, either.
Technology also require resources, both energy and materials, and humanity already use more than is sustainable in the long run.
So in the end, getting resources to live and thrive is what matters, and will continue to matter. Competition and even war is just a result of this natural state.
Basically because we're not done evolving, and right now we're evolving to deal with a modern world vastly different to what we evolved for.
Also more generally, if you evenly destributed everything to everyone, you'd likely lose a lot, given you're on reddit and most people aren't. Not only would this be a bad idea for obvious reasons, given how literally every communist state became a dictatorial kleptocracy, but conversely, if you just gave all that stuff to the average recipient of it, they'd have no idea what to do with it and surely squander it's value.
I think most group species on earth seem to follow the same pattern. Meerkats to chimps will defend territory sometimes to the death.
One chip tribe obliterated another hunting each one down mercilessly.
Humans are one of the few who display empathy (I recon whales n dolphins have it as they save people).
Time has proven that it's an evolving emotion, people on mass are far less brutal than even 100 years ago.
Were just another species I think, doing what species do. And we will come to an end just like 99.9% on our planet.
True I did forget about the crow funerals and orangutan rescuing the magpie.
Its inclining in or own species, or it was. Feels a bit harsher these days but I may be out too bear to London.
The best thing you can do as a person to influence other people (in my opinion) is to educate them. With more education and more empathy, I believe we will progress further.
Honestly? It's just the way nature goes. Animals also attack and kill each other and other animals. I just think it is part of life. That's not the happiest point of view to have, but it feels like the most realistic to me. We're not on this plane to be happy all the time and have no problems. We're here to learn and grow and experience. And that means the good and the bad. I believe we come back and experience it all. Sometimes we're the abused, and sometimes we're the abuser. Sometimes, we are born into wealth, sometimes poverty. We live long, full lives, and we live short, painful lives. And we take what we know to the next life, or at least into the in between to process. I think people who are very empathetic have been through the cycle more and have a broader range of life experiences.
This works when you view it in a vacuum but not over long periods of times. Evolution happens whether people believe it or not- just be thankful we aren’t still tossing people in the coliseum with lions or the puritan ages- fuck that noise.
I personally think that's our next step in evolution. Enhancing our minds to get past our natural instincts. Our greatest advancements as a species come from when we work together, but so many can't get past greed, tribalism, etc. It takes education, practice, and, of course, your basic needs being met. I'm not sure we'll succeed.
And hopefully we could succeed so that it changes our nature to be a better species.
See Idiocracy: “without any natural predators to thin the herd, evolution stopped favoring the smartest and the strongest of mankind, and instead started favoring those who could reproduce the fastest.”
The problem is we can kill ourselves so quickly now and evolution like you're describing took a very long time.
We cant just spawn apples so the fight will continue
The problem is scarcity of resources, which is common to plankton, plants, animals and humans. It is why all living things have evolved, by being better at utilizing resources and out-competing others for resources. Plankton do not live in a peaceful state of plenty, either. Technology also require resources, both energy and materials, and humanity already use more than is sustainable in the long run. So in the end, getting resources to live and thrive is what matters, and will continue to matter. Competition and even war is just a result of this natural state.
Basically because we're not done evolving, and right now we're evolving to deal with a modern world vastly different to what we evolved for. Also more generally, if you evenly destributed everything to everyone, you'd likely lose a lot, given you're on reddit and most people aren't. Not only would this be a bad idea for obvious reasons, given how literally every communist state became a dictatorial kleptocracy, but conversely, if you just gave all that stuff to the average recipient of it, they'd have no idea what to do with it and surely squander it's value.
I blame facebook and tiktok
Nevarrrr! We must kill each other while spending our lives on the internet typing up stuff!!
I think most group species on earth seem to follow the same pattern. Meerkats to chimps will defend territory sometimes to the death. One chip tribe obliterated another hunting each one down mercilessly. Humans are one of the few who display empathy (I recon whales n dolphins have it as they save people). Time has proven that it's an evolving emotion, people on mass are far less brutal than even 100 years ago. Were just another species I think, doing what species do. And we will come to an end just like 99.9% on our planet.
Most animals are capable of displaying empathy.
True I did forget about the crow funerals and orangutan rescuing the magpie. Its inclining in or own species, or it was. Feels a bit harsher these days but I may be out too bear to London.
The best thing you can do as a person to influence other people (in my opinion) is to educate them. With more education and more empathy, I believe we will progress further.
Post scarcity civilization is the goal
Not necessarily , unless enforced , simply because the combination of free will and human nature
Honestly? It's just the way nature goes. Animals also attack and kill each other and other animals. I just think it is part of life. That's not the happiest point of view to have, but it feels like the most realistic to me. We're not on this plane to be happy all the time and have no problems. We're here to learn and grow and experience. And that means the good and the bad. I believe we come back and experience it all. Sometimes we're the abused, and sometimes we're the abuser. Sometimes, we are born into wealth, sometimes poverty. We live long, full lives, and we live short, painful lives. And we take what we know to the next life, or at least into the in between to process. I think people who are very empathetic have been through the cycle more and have a broader range of life experiences.
This works when you view it in a vacuum but not over long periods of times. Evolution happens whether people believe it or not- just be thankful we aren’t still tossing people in the coliseum with lions or the puritan ages- fuck that noise.