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In my mind one of the most important ideas of the past decade is philosopher Timothy Morton’s concept of the “hyperobject”. Unlike things we typically think of as singular, coherent objects, hyperobjects are comprised of complex properties on spatial, temporal, and complexity scales humans struggle to (or can’t) intuit. Yet they are no less coherent and singular. [1/2]
I think this captures perfectly the nature of many modern problems which significant numbers of people refuse to acknowledge, and about which it’s much easier to lie. If you can’t build intuition without having relevant knowledge, it’s quite easy to just dismiss something as fiction, declare it irrelevant, and then refuse to learn. [2/2]