So a persistent thought of mine, when I look at the world and all it's problems, is that we're not smart enough to solve them. And that as such, we should invest our efforts in being smarter, both individually and collectively. :/
I'm not super confident in this, of course. It does occur to me that it might not be very possible, or practical, to do such, and so we'd be better just sticking it out and trying to tackle the problems themselves. But I do think it's worth taking a look at. :/
@Angle we are smart enough to solve our technical problems. we are not emotionally smart enough to solve our cultural problems.
additionally I think we actually have the emotional toolbox to solve the cultural problems, and the problem is one of adoption.
so maybe the root cause is one of rhetorical intelligence?
@joXn You mean that we're not very good at discussing our emotional tools so as to promote appropriate adoption? :/
@Angle that, and the emotional tools are threatening to the dominant ideologies, so they are actively propagandized against