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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Other lamentation is the tendency to see development as to the 'advanced' or ever more refined and always a strict linear progression in one singular direction which isn't a good reflection of reality. Behavior of anything is modulated by environmental factors, ex adapting to the said situation even if its not ideal in our eyes allows said thing to persist.