Evolution, Revolution, Smesholution

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I met someone who’s wife is an evolutionary psychologist last night and got a brief introduction to what that is. I heard of it a few years ago, but I don’t find it is mentioned a whole lot. So, got this second hand, the guy said that his wife says that people who study evolution frequently end their discussion of how humans became what we are at the neck, that is, they ignore how our thinking evolved. He then hemmed and hawed a bit, noting that we don’t have polling data from the paleolethic era, but we can use archaeology and make guesses about their thoughts.

So, no comment, just saying.

Evolutionary Psychology | Psychology Today

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What is [Smesholution]?

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It’s a nice gentle introduction, hopefully enough to make some curious, only the curious learn, I’m getting to think.

Although here’s a case in point about that self-absorbed thing and how deep it goes into our fiber.

Human Nature, Explained
Our emotional complexity differentiates us from other members of the animal kingdom.

Given my hard won awareness, “differentiates” is hideous, racist even.
We are mammals, breast suckers, that imparted various primal tendencies and their biological component. We were formed by that clay, one strand evolved into today’s human behaviors, fitted for today’s reality. For me, that has mattered because it adds a whole new layers of nuance and understanding to the story that is myself.

This is what I’m “ranting” about, although I like to think it’s about making people aware and working on words, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite.

All my life in my reading, listening, watching scientists and other experts, time and time again I would notice this ingrained sense of superiority and aboveness toward wild things and natural phenomena, the bizarre easy disregard for so much that seemed to me really important to the whole, even if simply parts of the fabric of world (instead of the treasure being sought). I’d listen and remember, then by and by, new studies, more information and invariably new finding would reveal new layers of complexity, often making a joke out of old pronouncements.

I’ve become all about representing Earth’s perspective, since apparently so few others do. Gently, really for the most part it’s been personal and for my own mind and accomplishment, trying to figure out why it’s so difficult to convey it in a world full of thin skinned insecure people. The grandkids may be able to help me figure it out, at least they’ll drive me to keep on, keeping on.

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To me, those sound more like prejudicial terms than “diffirentiate”.

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To say we’ve turned into a thin skinned people?

It may not be something I’d bring into a court of law, but a review of the past ten fifteen years of American politics sure does lend the opinion some weight.

Heck think about the minds behind project 2025. And so on.

But you’re right I shouldn’t leave such red herrings dangling, it makes it too easy to avoid the real point I was making about our self-absorption and the general disregard for all but our own special interests.

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Well, you didn’t own it at first, but now you’ve included we. To me, project 2025 is the latest draft of “The Fundamentals” from 120 years ago. And that’s a rehash of 3rd century Christianity.

What’s the shift? When were we thick skinned and what does that mean?

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There you go again. :wink:
Things are simply the same as it ever was.

Now that your calling me on it, I don’t know that it’s about thick v. thin skinned. Perhaps it has more to do with insecurity and pettiness. smemholution

There was a time in America when people where way more secure within themselves. One’s religion was something someone lived and not an excuse to attack others. We had less people too, and more elbow room between us, that makes a big difference. Life was simpler, jobs and careers were more straight forward, patriotism was simple to follow, we still believed in our leaders and so on.

Oh course we also had some big problems buried under the surface, that didn’t turn out so well in the long run. In fact, many quick solutions from back then, turned out to bite us in the long run. This time around we have the whole Earth systems disruption trajectories problem.

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I’m starting to think your difficulties with the current state of the world are based on a lack of understanding of history. In our grandparent’s time, people openly hated other religions. They did not want their children marrying outside of their “tribe”. This is verified by sociological data, recorded data, and cultural artifacts like movies and comedy. We still see it playing out in the Mideast.

These smaller facts of how people are have added up to a worldview of your’s that I can’t relate to. I thought it was just a problem of how you were trying to communicate. I agree AGW is one of humankind’s biggest problems, but with your distorted views, I dont think we can talk about how to fix it.

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