alanbwt on Nostr: “To know the future in a conscious way gives you, obviously, a survival advantage. ...

“To know the future in a conscious way gives you, obviously, a survival advantage. But at the same time it gives you a survival disadvantage, so what you gain on the roundabout you lose on the swings. You gain the ability to plan your future, to invest, to take out insurance, to do all those things. But the price you pay for it is anxiety. And you pay this price because you know that you don’t know enough.”

— Alan Watts