Jac on Nostr: As scholar Brian Klaas puts it, “the cognitive shortcuts we use to survive are ...

As scholar Brian Klaas puts it, “the cognitive shortcuts we use to survive are mismatched with the complex reality we now navigate.” For some, this threat demands dramatic action, such as replacing some big system we have -- say, capitalism -- with an alternative means of organizing society. For others, it demands throwing out all of modernity to go back to a mythical, simpler golden age: one with more human-scale systems of order and authority, which they imagine was somehow better. And yet others see the cracks in the system but hope that with more data and more tweaks, it can be repaired and our problems will be definitively solved.

I find it interesting that large groups of our society are obviously engaged with each of these possible solutions, depending on personal or incentivized predilection.