it feels like a line from the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy
“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.”
Maybe whales know something we don’t. They have land ancestry, so they started as something in the ocean came out for a bit and decided to go back
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
No, we absolutely haven’t.
Thinking everything should be simple is exactly how we got into our current global socioeconomic situation.
We should collectively set the rules so that everyone benefits and nobody suffers. Complex problems and complex solutions.