also, much like a person with ADHD, the world doesn't collectively care about anything unless it's exciting or scary in the moment. what did we do last year or even last week? no one remembers, because the news is on about something else now, much like an ADHD brain.
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such behaviour might be described as reactive instead of proactive. if the world is a brain, it has issues with its prefrontal cortex development. it's smart but lazy, so it does as little work as late as possible. when humans act like this, they don't tend to have very good lives.