Plebble on Nostr: So have been a little switched off in Guatemala for my birthday. I posted photos of ...
So have been a little switched off in Guatemala for my birthday. I posted photos of El Fuego erupting and got zapped sats. Random mental wanderings ensued so a thought for anybody interested.
As bitcoiners, we try to orange pill. Explaining the nature of fiat and debt. It's hard because people don't tend to feel the gradually warming water in the pot.
Geologists tend to like to think of things as being very slow processs over millions of years. We learn about the sharp episodic events such as meteorite impacts and volcanoes. We tend to consider them outliers within academic circles. I personally do not adhere to this principle. I've mentioned before in a post that I was warning people in Costa rica that due to the hunga Tonga volcanic eruption of 2022, we would see a heavy rainy season and to be prepared. I was generally ignored. We had 1.4m of rain in November with obvious consequences. Episodic events to me seem more of the norm.
How do the two things relate? Are we, as humans preconditioned not to understand the concept of "gradually, the suddenly"? Do we simply want to think there's a state of equilibrium that persists? Is this a great psychological weakness or blind spot? It seems evolutionarily not to be advantageous, so why? Is it a hangover from more primitive times where we possibly needed to feel this way to deal with living in a more hostile physical environment? Just a thought
As bitcoiners, we try to orange pill. Explaining the nature of fiat and debt. It's hard because people don't tend to feel the gradually warming water in the pot.
Geologists tend to like to think of things as being very slow processs over millions of years. We learn about the sharp episodic events such as meteorite impacts and volcanoes. We tend to consider them outliers within academic circles. I personally do not adhere to this principle. I've mentioned before in a post that I was warning people in Costa rica that due to the hunga Tonga volcanic eruption of 2022, we would see a heavy rainy season and to be prepared. I was generally ignored. We had 1.4m of rain in November with obvious consequences. Episodic events to me seem more of the norm.
How do the two things relate? Are we, as humans preconditioned not to understand the concept of "gradually, the suddenly"? Do we simply want to think there's a state of equilibrium that persists? Is this a great psychological weakness or blind spot? It seems evolutionarily not to be advantageous, so why? Is it a hangover from more primitive times where we possibly needed to feel this way to deal with living in a more hostile physical environment? Just a thought