You try frantically to tell people about this, and it always seems to go badly for you.
Telling people frantically about problems that are not on a very short list of “approved emergencies” like fire, angry mobs, and snakes is a good way to get people to ignore you, or, failing that, to dislike you.
It is only very recently (in evolutionary time) that ordinary people are likely to find important solutions to important social problems in a context where those solutions have a realistic chance of being implemented. In the past, (a) people were relatively uneducated, (b) society was relatively simpler, and (c) arbitrary power was held and wielded relatively more openly.
Thus, in the past, anyone who was talking frantically about social reform was either hopelessly naive, hopelessly insane, or hopelessly self-promoting. There’s a reason we’re hardwired to instinctively discount that kind of talk.
Telling people frantically about problems that are not on a very short list of “approved emergencies” like fire, angry mobs, and snakes is a good way to get people to ignore you, or, failing that, to dislike you.
It is only very recently (in evolutionary time) that ordinary people are likely to find important solutions to important social problems in a context where those solutions have a realistic chance of being implemented. In the past, (a) people were relatively uneducated, (b) society was relatively simpler, and (c) arbitrary power was held and wielded relatively more openly.
Thus, in the past, anyone who was talking frantically about social reform was either hopelessly naive, hopelessly insane, or hopelessly self-promoting. There’s a reason we’re hardwired to instinctively discount that kind of talk.