Patiency
Waggle Dance
Karl von Frisch spent over 27 years (starting in 1919) observing bees’ “waggle dance”, a figure-eight movement that he found out actually communicates direction, distance, and quality of food sources or nesting sites to colony members.
The place with the best indicators is where the colony goes to. Very rational.
27 years of research and meticulous observation. In 1973, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
But most people are very impatient… that's modern life. No time to waste, and the classic 'time is money,' they say. Well, time is a lot of things. Money isn't one of them.
I remember when it was common to see people full of certainty, very professorial, after reading a short Wikipedia article on a non-trivial subject. In recent years, it's gotten worse: unqualified YouTubers and AI shit 'educating' millions."
Idiots will take over the world;
not by capacity, but by quantity.
They are many.
- Nelson Rodrigues (1912–1980), a renowned Brazilian playwright, journalist, and novelist.
There’s nothing more confident than an idiot.
This urgency, a necessity of readiness that pushes people to be always on the surface, ignoring contradictions or different perspectives just to reinforce their own biases. Fast decision-makers. Disposable education.
This is not only affecting regular individuals but also big companies and nations. The next quarter is the long-term vision (next bonus time, the upcoming popularity poll). Optimization for speed rather than rationality, long-term thinking, common good.
Well, the crazy thing is that this is so obviously wrong. No news here. And yet most keep racing toward the meaningless land.
Time to slow this shit down … for a few minutes now. A bit more tomorrow.
Who knows how it will be in a week, in a month, in a couple of years …?
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