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1. zkmon · 1790760118 · focus · HN ↗

   Blame too much connectedness. Humans are not designed to be affected by things that happen 100's of miles away. They shouldn't even know the names or those far away places or people. They shouldn't have dependency on things that are produced far away.

   Tribal populations lived isolated lives. Most of human life on Earth involved only small-sized settlements with occasional visitors from the far away places.

   Connectedness opens the flood gates . You get inundated with news from every corner as if it is happening in you neighborhood and as if those are your people.

   You are not designed for this.

   1. teekert · 1790760204 · focus · HN ↗

      Connectedness also stops us from waging war. Or, I should say, it does not stop us, it makes us less likely to start one. But we still do it evidently. And then we all suffer.

      1. tokioyoyo · 1790763926 · focus · HN ↗

         We have more wars right now than before.

         1. teekert · 1790764071 · focus · HN ↗

            Do we? If you read something like guns germs and steel or read some Harari, we may not have had big wars with big guns like today, but we sure had a lot of smaller conflicts.

            1. tokioyoyo · 1790765521 · focus · HN ↗

               Yeah we do. Most since like WWII. Obviously depends on how you define a "war", so it can skew one way or another.

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