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It’s also a society where the basic form of material interaction is competition.
But this predates humans. We are also only animals.
You are a lot more advanced than “only animals”. :) We dont see horses chatting on Facebook.
Sometimes humans excuse very bad behavior by saying animals are doing it, which is very silly to me. You are a human being, not a horse. The only question is, how will you use your abilities that the horse doesnt have? For good or for bad.
Humans competing with eachother is both the source of financial growth and also the destruction of the planet at the same time. If humans cant be smarter, we will get extinct, which is very fair by nature. We have everything we need to be smarter and if our greed over paper money kills us, so be it.
You make it sound as if it’s universal. It’s neither universal in human societies nor in other parts of the animal kingdom
But this predates humans.
That’s not true. The biological world isn’t fundamentally based on competition.
Competition inside one species actually is decremental to their survival. The optimal strategy for members of a species is cooperation, especially when that reduces scarcity.
Edit: I forgot to mention that you’re also committing the naturalistic fallacy.
For those lower on the pecking order, maybe. There are plenty of species where a few dominate the many of their own kind, however.
And the leaders gets killed if those lower on the pecking order don’t like them anymore.
- Competition is still not the optimal strategy.
- The biological world still isn’t fundamentally based on competition.
- “Domination” for animals is something fundamentally different than the domination of command and control that humans carry out.
Unironically, probably, though.
Like autism becoming more common in the modern day. It’s more that we have the tools to diagnose and recognize it, and increasing social acceptance of seeking diagnosis and treatment.
The world being shit is just a nice little cherry on top.
Valid, but in terms of Depression and Anxiety, the link to environmental factors is pretty strong. Especially with pressure to perform and the ever-worsening news cycle, it takes quite a toll.
I think the rise of autism diagnostics is really more due to awareness and screening.
I mean, pressure to perform was as intense in the past, if not moreso. Subsistence farmers literally starve if they perform poorly. Communities die, and are strongly interconnected (and lean on each other with immense, suicide-inducing pressure for not carrying one’s fair share or violation of taboos).
What makes modern pressure bad is not that it’s worse than previous forms of pressure, but that if we structured our society in a less-fucked way, we are materially well-off enough to not need that absurd level of pressure.
I didn’t mean to insinuate that there never has been pressure in the past. Though I would imagine, the type of pressure and expectations changed.
For me, it feels like current societal pressure is more abstract, making it far harder to really live up to it. But it might seem this way due to hindsight.
