Macro humanity

From inception, the human has been locally optimizing. Later, they extended the idea a bit further to small clan sizes with less than 150 members. The idea remains robust after 100,000 years among the poorest, the wealthiest, and people of every race, creed, class, color, nationality, height, weight and gender. Every human appears to live in small circles each with less than 150 people.

Humanity, however, is bigger. In the status-quo, it encompasses 8.4 billion near clones that spread across an ailing planet, most seeking food and shelter. Meanwhile, the smartest and possibly the greatest few are trying to make Mars great again or shelter people from Malaria using mosquito nets. The former is mostly interested in what is called “natural selection,” a euphemism for spreading own genes and the latter sitting on billions, seeking incremental solutions for suffering humans.

It is certainly not rational to think about the larger problem, all of us. Those who wear the the charity badge, calming they are helping humanity may want to think twice. Being charitable within your circle or throwing money out to those trying to spread good news may not be effective. If one is able to somehow understand there are billions of near clones of herself across the world, that could be more useful.

Humans, funny and irrational animals, run amok. It is uncertain how long the charade continues.