Apologies in advance.
My brain, fueled by ADHD and whatever else mental shenanigans I have going on, is almost unable to retain memories of events, but craves knowledge. I have multiple fields of knowledge I try to absorb as much as my abilities allow me to, and some of these fields are stuff like quantum physics and the like. I don't know the math, but I absorb the concepts and the theories around it, and with my vast array of too much stuff for a single threaded brain to handle, my multi threaded one sometimes chomps through them when I infodump to someone, and today I came up with a theory about the nature of reality.
You can't change humanity
On the topic of capitalism, the question arose why humanity is like this. Why are we putting off things until they absolutely need doing, or sometimes even past that? We are acting against a fundamental thread to humanity, climate change and other dangers, incredibly slow and only as much as we perceive we need.
We observe this on an individual level as well, people put stuff of until the last minute, so a natural conclusion arises that if we were to change human individuals to be eager to tackle problems as fast as possible with as much thought, it would propagate to humanity as a whole, right?
But what if it doesn't.
What if collective action is not guided by the individuals making it up? Because we observe that plenty. Many things, while being fundamentally different, behave like fluids in mass, electrons, water, sand, humans, all obey a certain set of rules when put together. A flow of humans through a stadium is as water flows through a miniature model of it. A human is a sentient complex being, but put enough together and they act by the fundamental physical properties that water molecules and grains of sand obey as well.
So what if, even if you would make every single human a smart and eager person, humanity as a whole doesn't change?
Water is stupid
The concept of inaction until or past inevitability can arguably already be observed in physical reality. When water flows down a path, it keeps it, until it hits something, then it either shows it away or bends around it. So what if, just like water, sand and humans all flowing like liquid in masses, stupidity is a phenomenon caused by an underlying system as well?
Reality is based on stupidity
If water not changing it's path before hitting an object, and humanity not changing it's consumption habits and capitalism until climate change threatens it's existence are caused by the same thing.. what if it's a fundamental property of existence? Evolution is the same, crocodiles haven't evolved in hundreds of millions of years, because their makeup is perfectly suitable for it's surroundings, so there is no need for innovation. Planets traverse the same paths in the sky, until their sun explodes or they get hit by something really large. We observe quantum effects as random, but all the oddities we see happen when we try to measure it? Isn't that the same as putting something in it's way? Quantum mechanics might obey this fundamental stupidity as well, just on a more fundamental level, of only being existent in a stable context when hitting observation. And as quantum particles make up our physical reality, what if all of it, the flow of water, the inaction of humanity and the movement of the planets in the sky, are all a product of this fundamental property of inaction until inevitability?
What's my point?
You might have followed all of this now, maybe even entertain the idea, or dismiss it as not much of a discovery, but let me explain a very important (for me) consequence of this, it solves the fermi paradox.
As large systems obey the inaction until inevitability, any civilization will behave the same once it's big enough, no matter the properties of it's individuals. Are they evolved like us and predictors? Are they silicon based? Are they not as destructive because their planet doesn't have as much uranium and other dangerous resources? It doesn't matter, they all behave the same, and as such, we can say, humanity has peaked.
If all civilizations will inevitably act the same, the fact we don't see any of them, is that none of them become huge space faring and galaxy altering entities, because otherwise the universe would be full of them, we would see them everywhere, and that would be our future, but we don't.
If inevitability as fundamental property of reality holds up, humanity will be too stupid to expand much further, and it's not even our fault, it's a cruel joke by the universe itself.
Things like these are on my brain all the time, and I can't stop them.
I will file this under science fiction because it's a cool concept but if any paper shows up with this thesis this page shall be my proof that I came up with it first.