We have so many short term ideas: chasing quarterly profits, carrying a national debt, passing climate decline to our kids, designing garbage appliances and vehicles that fail right after warranty, and on and on.
This is showing us where the other side of the road is with long term thinking. How do you keep an institution running--physically and socially--for 10 ky? How do you even communicate with people 10 ky from now? We can't even read half the stuff written in stone 2 ky ago about big things like kings and wars; forget about writing a detailed maintenance manual, or describing tools or materials they'll need in a language probably dead for thousands of years. Will they even want to?
So by having examples of both kinds of organizations, the middle of the road is more moderate, moved away from disposable, self serving, instant gratification and more towards sustainable and altrustic.
We have so many short term ideas: chasing quarterly profits, carrying a national debt, passing climate decline to our kids, designing garbage appliances and vehicles that fail right after warranty, and on and on.
This is showing us where the other side of the road is with long term thinking. How do you keep an institution running--physically and socially--for 10 ky? How do you even communicate with people 10 ky from now? We can't even read half the stuff written in stone 2 ky ago about big things like kings and wars; forget about writing a detailed maintenance manual, or describing tools or materials they'll need in a language probably dead for thousands of years. Will they even want to?
So by having examples of both kinds of organizations, the middle of the road is more moderate, moved away from disposable, self serving, instant gratification and more towards sustainable and altrustic.