@CERN1954

1 year ago

What can I do to help Tristan? For a long time, I've been interested in the work of the Center for Humane Technology and The Consilience Project. I've brought up the wisdom-complexity-gap many times during conversations with people I know when it was appropriate and noticed two key friction points: (Point 1) The issue is so complex and far beyond their comprehension of 'reality'. In other words, their sense-making capacity is simply inadequate to understand the issue without investing reasonable time and effort out of their own volition when there is no short-term benefit/gain (e.g. money) or consequence (e.g., bad grade). Unfortunately, the majority of (Point 2) people are aware of social media's potential harms (e.g., mental health), but most simply don't care beyond the media's framing of a "declining mental health in teenagers." Most people are concerned with what they are doing/working on right now, such as a job, education, hobby, and raising their children, rather than the (second and third order) consequences of their actions. Our culture appears to be in a race to the bottom, and not enough people seem to care or understand to alter its course. The whole situation is analogous to the saying – fish don't know they're in the water.

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