Subj : Re: Computer Kits
To   : Jeff
From : boraxman
Date : Wed Jan 26 2022 13:38:50

 Je> We're also not designed to fly, or to travel 70mph. We're not designed
 Je> to do a lot of the things we do.
 Je> 

I think this is different.  You are talking about physical capabilities, I am talking about behavioural norms.  It is one thing to be able to physically do something you couldn't before, but it is totally another to be subject to social mechanics which evolution hasn't equipped us for.

By the way, when we fly, we take very, very, very careful measures to make sure that the artificial means which enable us to fly never force us to rely on our own innate ability to fly.  Flight and travel work because we never have to deal with the conflict between what it provides, and what we can do.

Social Media doesn't do this.  It subjects us to a panopticon, to exacerbates certain behaviours, stimulus, breaks our expections, but there is no "safety net".
 Je> On the other hand, whether we were designed for it or not, humans'
 Je> specialty is adaptation. We're not inherently the greatest predators,
 Je> nor the fleetest or most well-defended prey. We excel at doing things we
 Je> were not designed to do.

Adaptation has limits.  Humans didn't adapt to Communism, to North Korea.  We haven't adapted to freely available and abundant opiods, to wealth inequality, etc.

This is off topic, but my point is there are pathological social trends in which the only real solution is regulation or removal.  We deal with them all the time.

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