I often tell myself that Robutil’s reign is temporary. That there’s a monkey inside of me and I must listen to Humo to keep it in check, but only because I’m following Robutil’s plan (which is not ideal in the long run). The local scope and often misleading altruistic instincts that the Humor/the monkey offers are suboptimal when Earth is under siege and you have to put a price to human life.
Our evolutionary-derived altruism is often, as in the case with scope insensitivity, plain wrong. But I still have trouble taking genuine solace in Robutil’s world, even if he is right. He seems like a temporary ally I must begrudgingly follow until we can live in a world in which Humo’s altruism aligns perfectly with reality.(Which has never happened before, given how altruistic genes were technically optimizing for reproduction, not altruism, and that showed.) Robutil seems to me like a scaling tool in Humo’s toolset and not the reverse.
Anyhow thanks for posting this, the monkey appreciates anthropomorphization.
Alright I’ll try this methodology:
I often tell myself that Robutil’s reign is temporary. That there’s a monkey inside of me and I must listen to Humo to keep it in check, but only because I’m following Robutil’s plan (which is not ideal in the long run). The local scope and often misleading altruistic instincts that the Humor/the monkey offers are suboptimal when Earth is under siege and you have to put a price to human life. Our evolutionary-derived altruism is often, as in the case with scope insensitivity, plain wrong. But I still have trouble taking genuine solace in Robutil’s world, even if he is right. He seems like a temporary ally I must begrudgingly follow until we can live in a world in which Humo’s altruism aligns perfectly with reality.(Which has never happened before, given how altruistic genes were technically optimizing for reproduction, not altruism, and that showed.) Robutil seems to me like a scaling tool in Humo’s toolset and not the reverse.
Anyhow thanks for posting this, the monkey appreciates anthropomorphization.