One of the many characteristics of human intelligence that interfere with rational thought processes is the tendency to exclude variables that make it too structured computation, the outcome too uncertain, too complex to formulate a criterion for selecting acceptable. In simplest terms, our brain is a tool we use to generate data in support of what we want to demonstrate from the outset, in order to achieve the goals we have set ourselves. Before we decide what we want, we put together everything you need to get it and convince others that this is right. The problem is that a lot of people think the opposite, is convinced that the brain, driven by cosmic forces of reason absolute first understands what is right and just by chance in these enlightening revelations resulting benefits for someone which, incidentally, is the owner of the brain that has been designed.
The goals are always personal and selfish, altruism is an agreement, a contract, a concession that it is never gratuitous and disinterested. Welfare is for those who enjoy, for obvious reasons but also to those who need guarantees for less obvious reasons that have nothing to do with altruism. If a politician speaks of altruism as a duty or moral principle or right then it is stupid or insane, in the wrong profession, he had to religion. You do not need an IQ to understand that monstrous agrees to the rich that there are so poor that the poor have nothing to lose by making crimes motivated by need. In healthy agrees that there are sick people who go around to spread viruses and bacteria. Education - educated does not mean intelligent, there are highly educated and intelligent stupid illiterate - agrees that the greatest number of people have, as he had the opportunity to own the intellectual tools that help us better understand the reality . This is not to be altruistic, it is pure selfishness transferred to the social level. It is not right or left, the goal is common, changing the ways proposed for implementation.
Another characteristic example is the horizon of time. We care about the future until we are forced to do so. We know that oil will run out but we take comfortable, we still have 20 or 50 years before, maybe even 100, that's the rush? It does not matter if in the meantime we pollute and alter the climate. Also we have space limitations, we do not care that things happen to people who do not know, or who live in faraway places. So do not think in planetary terms. We prefer to mobilize the goods rather than approved prices. We are full of local cultural, political, economic. Italy is one of these: during the years 2000-2010 increased by 2.4%. France 12.5%, U.S. 17.7%, Spain 22.4%. Out of 180 countries in the world, Italy is ranked 179th place, only Haiti is worse off than us. Yet if you open the newspapers or turn on the tv what do you suggest? They talk about everything except that's what really counts. They speak of themselves, of the hypothetical differences between them. They speak of values \u200b\u200band scandals and small events of little importance. They do not see beyond the short term can not see beyond the fence of their garden. But praising altruism, as if they were not because politicians are keen to career and money and power, but do us a favor, sacrificing himself for us for the greater good.
summary, we do not like to recognize our foundations selfish, we do not like today to deal with problems that will arise tomorrow, we do not like to reflect on issues far from home. Luckily we consider the most intelligent species on the planet, think what must have been stupid species have become extinct. Please give me a selfish politician who does for a living, tell me what you can do and what not, how can you do what you can do, tell me how it intends to prepare for the future, how will you react to what happens not only in but outside of national borders. These are people who should get out of school, people must be professional, you can not take one that makes you beautiful sermons and put the government because he managed to convince people to give him the vote. Democracy is fine, but for the people to choose between alternatives, not the power to send a moron to delude the electorate to be able to work miracles.
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