Professor Guy R. McPherson has been discussing mental health with Canadian psychologist Peter Miller. The sixteenth of many conversations was conducted on the afternoon of 3 December 2023, and it is embedded above.
By Richard Fisher: Humanity is stuck in short-term thinking. Here’s how we escape.
Peter Miller's free course in borderline personality disorder can be found at http://freebpdcourse.com. His relevant music can be found on the band’s YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@LieAvenger-OfficialYouTubeChan) and also on his band's Spotify channel, embedded below:
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Thank you for continuing to add to my work, Kevin. Indigenous peoples, often said to be primitive, were and are way ahead of us latter-day colonizers.
"Short termism", it sums up this culture perfectly.
Another fascinating delve into our societal predicament from Guy and Peter.
"This means that slow, creeping problems like global warming don’t pop up on the attentional radar until something is burning or flooding." From the referenced article "Humanity is stuck in short-term thinking." Isn't that the truth!
Until modern civilisation stomped them out, many Indigenous cultures functioned on a multi-generational perspective.
" In many Indigenous cultures, we are taught from childhood to take only what you need, leave some behind so it can regenerate itself, and to think seven generations ahead."
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/returning-circular-economies-rooted-indigenous-values#:~:text=In%20many%20Indigenous%20cultures%2C%20we%20are%20taught%20from,regenerate%20itself%2C%20and%20to%20think%20seven%20generations%20ahead.