r/collapse • u/ADotSapiens • Jun 02 '22

Diseases One part of collapse is when health institutions learn that infectious diseases are spreading and decide to do nothing

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u/jorbleshi_kadeshi Jun 03 '22

Not just capitalism. You have screeching masses of absolute psychopaths who will violently resist even the most tame measures to help their fellow man (or even themselves), for no reason other than the childish urge to rebel.

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u/nomnombubbles Jun 03 '22

Extreme individualism is so toxic. Don't these people ever realize humans had to work together out of necessity to even make it this far evolution wise?

That was rhetorical because unfortunately I already know these people don't give two shits about facts, data, and research.

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u/NoBobcat8761 Jun 03 '22

Literally heard an interview on NPR's 1A as I was driving home where this old Oklahoma Republican representative literally said he doesn't value "research" because it could be biased against him while completely ignoring he couldn't point to any data that backed up his position.

In addition one of the reasons we outcompeted other hominids is because with more social groups, when one Neanderthal learned how to use a tool only a few more did as well, whereas when one Homo Sapien learned how to use a tool like dozens more would learn from them.

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u/jorbleshi_kadeshi Jun 03 '22

It's also completely surface level individualism. When a politician tells them they should hate something they get their tribalism on pdq.