I think you do these traits a disservice by bundling them up with the label “human.” I think it’s very human to be unnecessarily imperceptive, ineffective, and stubborn. I prefer to leave being the most human human to someone else, preferably someone I never have to think about or interact with.
Ah, but that was the point of the post? That I, in my personal opinion, think that unneccessary imperceptiveness and ineffectiveness and stubbornness makes someone less interesting and less valuable and less my peer, particularly when they’re reflectively endorsed and enthusiastically embraced.
Descriptively, I agree with you completely—those traits are exceedingly human. But prescriptively, I fight them with everything I’ve got. I think they are strong candidates for “what we will outgrow,” as a culture and as a species.
I think you do these traits a disservice by bundling them up with the label “human.” I think it’s very human to be unnecessarily imperceptive, ineffective, and stubborn. I prefer to leave being the most human human to someone else, preferably someone I never have to think about or interact with.
Ah, but that was the point of the post? That I, in my personal opinion, think that unneccessary imperceptiveness and ineffectiveness and stubbornness makes someone less interesting and less valuable and less my peer, particularly when they’re reflectively endorsed and enthusiastically embraced.
Descriptively, I agree with you completely—those traits are exceedingly human. But prescriptively, I fight them with everything I’ve got. I think they are strong candidates for “what we will outgrow,” as a culture and as a species.