Comment by b112

You are a chipmunk. Every second is met with immense risk of predation, whether cat or hawk. Yet you must still seek food, mate, and water. You must "live in the moment", ignore future hypothetical dangers, and simply live.

You must be in your territory, defending it daily from others. You must live knowing the cat sleeps 50 feet away.

Future dangers must be misty, put out of mind, lest you become paralyized with fear and inaction. To be concerned for unimmediate danger, is impossible.

We are descended from such.

Humans have a very limited capacity to be concerned too far in the future. And think, if we were, how the probabilities expand that danger the further out you go.

Then also understand that the average IQ is 100, and consider how many are below that.

So, as a chipmunk do you work diligently collecting nuts for your winter, and your family? Or do you give up some nuts for a future that is misty, distant, opaque?

Don't be too hard on people, they're only human. They're only, really, chipmunks with bigger brains. And many are trying.