Predictability

Most of human civilisation and individual quests could be said to be built around the desire for ever more predictability and control over outcomes.

For starters, it’s a spectrum and there’s no complete, true predictability of every variable possible in the human realm.

Then there’s a point where the hidden costs actually add to the reverse of this — and there’s diminishing returns. Climate change was caused by many such costs adding up across people, places and time, and has brought upon us unpredictability much larger than the species has likely ever faced as a whole.

The longer our perceived predictability comes from hoarding money and the output of mined material — and less from regenerative biological cycles that sustain and expand life, the longer we’re merely continuing to delude ourselves.

We have to pick a side, for our own sake.