Monday, November 23, 2020

O-centricity & COVID

 The COVID-19 choices given to us by nature (not people) have always been simple: Wear masks together or shut down your economy if you don't want way more than 2 folks in the US to die every 3 minutes. 

Our organism-centric thinking instead imagines the problem is other people, e.g. (i) wanting to tell you what to do, (ii) trying to trick you into paying more taxes, or (iii) out to get your boss, etc. This latter way of thinking is an evolved trait that's had survival value in the past, but does not have survival value in this case.

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