What does it mean to be short sighted, and why people are against it? Well, think about this: some species, like Turtles, have been around on this planet for more than 200 millions years. They lay low, until dinosaurs came around and ruled the planet. And then dinosaurs died out, the turtles are still around. And when later human beings rose up, until today, until we die out (when?will we?), and they're still around, and probably will be around for a long time after that. So these turtles, small, laying low, and don't have much exciting movements,sometimes with their heart beating once in 9 minutes. But they last a very very long time.
No wonder evolutionary biologists say that being highly evolved (like us) doesn't mean it's better. It just means that it is a more complex structure (say, what our brains can do). But eventually, being advanced also have down sides--it requires a lot for us to survive than those simpler species along the evolutionary scale. Therefore, back to human world, if you think you do well today, don't be too arrogant, because those appear to be not doing so well today might just do well years later when you are down.Way down. More importantly, it's not about comparison, it's about ambition and being content, and also what you have sacrificed in your pursuit of a "better" future, or anything in the present. And which one of these two do you want to be? That, my friend, is also probably why China, with its "in the middle" kind of philosophy, never-going-extreme way of dealing with this world, is the one rare exception in human history, who has a long long line of history of continuous civilization. And it is still on the rise today.
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