Optimism matters. Example: Doomsday scenarios try to inspire cooperation. But by promoting short-term thinking, they actually prevent cooperation If we want people to cooperate, we need to play long-term games instead of short-term ones. We need optimistic long-term thinkers.
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The Ottomon empire ran on the devshirme system which forbade slave civil service/military from having kids. When that system loosened and they started having kids empire fell apart
Also, “long-term thinking” is code for “right-thinking like me”. A bs authoritarian goal. -
What you want isn’t long-term thinking (Seeing Like a State: everybody sucks at it, human brain can’t actually do it except in special cases), but non-terminal deliberative societies where there’s no such thing as a finished conversation. Only views that are argued for a while.
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Sure, but this is tunnel vision. Our culture is actually facing the opposite problem – it has lost the will to procreate and is facing oblivion. This book is well worth a read...http://amzn.to/2kCG4VX
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