from "the last hours of ancient sunlight" by thom hartmann

[joshmay41465]

"for the first 194,000 years of humanity's 200,000 year history, humans viewed the world and its living creatures as sacred, as having souls or spirits. a person who caused permanent harm to that world was condemned as insane and banished from the tribe. the members of the tribe realized that he was destroying the world of his children's children,

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[travistressler]

It seems to me, and I've noticed this for a while now, that what it means to be "wise" is to look at the long-term effects that something can have on your well-being and act accordingly. Perhaps that's why people tend to act moreso toward selfish, short-term passions that, in a long-term sense are non-sensical rather the less attractive, long-termed ones.