That's a constant shock in my experience, assuming at least similar awareness, if not familiarity, among those who have lived through the same events. How the hell did we get this far, I wonder. Far as in survival as a species I mean. Most of us are on autopilot.
Not autopilot so much as those inconvenient emotions and instincts that can't be bred out of the species regardless of the glories of any era of civilization.
The question needs to be asked in every generation about everything, really. There's no permanent attainment of wisdom in society.
That's a constant shock in my experience, assuming at least similar awareness, if not familiarity, among those who have lived through the same events. How the hell did we get this far, I wonder. Far as in survival as a species I mean. Most of us are on autopilot.
Not autopilot so much as those inconvenient emotions and instincts that can't be bred out of the species regardless of the glories of any era of civilization.