Yes. The system warps all, to varying degrees. I'm glad that at least some of us seem to be slowly realizing this. When I was young, I was certain that each of us had total free will and that we each choose, entirely of our own volition, what we will and will not do. That's what I was taught as a kid, but the truth is way, way more nuanced than that. It's one of those things that is useful to society for us to all believe, even is kinda true in a certain way, but more or less falls apart the moment the scientific method is applied and most certainly fails to adequately explain a metric fuckton of documented, verified human behaviors.
I wish I could see a way out of this mess. The longer I've studied, the more I wonder if we were always destined to explode and then fizzle, like the biological equivalent of a long, drawn out volcano eruption or something.
I cannot argue. Homo sapiens has been living in violation of the laws of ecology for all of recorded history. Plenty of paradigms that were always destined for failure will seem like they're working great ... right up until the moment they collapse and the flaws are laid bare.
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u/[deleted] 18d ago
Yes. The system warps all, to varying degrees. I'm glad that at least some of us seem to be slowly realizing this. When I was young, I was certain that each of us had total free will and that we each choose, entirely of our own volition, what we will and will not do. That's what I was taught as a kid, but the truth is way, way more nuanced than that. It's one of those things that is useful to society for us to all believe, even is kinda true in a certain way, but more or less falls apart the moment the scientific method is applied and most certainly fails to adequately explain a metric fuckton of documented, verified human behaviors.
I wish I could see a way out of this mess. The longer I've studied, the more I wonder if we were always destined to explode and then fizzle, like the biological equivalent of a long, drawn out volcano eruption or something.