• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
    13·
    2 years ago

    Sorry to do that, but I believe the world makes a lot more sense when viewed through the lens of punctuated equilibrium. It does not make things better, just makes the chaos more understandable.

    The dot com bubble.

    The housing bubble.

    Basically every economic bubble all the way back to tulip mania.

    The Arab Spring.

    The changes in the USA post 9/11.

    And most disturbing of all, the recent rapid swing of pretty much all environmental indicators into uncharted territory. Our biosphere may be heading into a phase of rapid change.

    • Neato@kbin.social
      8·
      2 years ago

      Nobody wants to change. It’s hard and expensive. Until they have to because conditions have required it. Then they change as fast as possible to a new state that works in the new conditions so they can survive.

      • IninewCrow
        1·
        2 years ago

        or they don’t survive and die and disappear … then the lucky ones who were different enough and fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time survive

        the magic of evolution … evolution doesn’t care who is smartest, fastest, strongest, wisest or moral … all it cares about is who survives to procreate and birth the next generation .