Distant future goals cannot regulate present behavior amid competing influences.

Evidence

Long-range goals provide a vision of a desired future. However, having a vision is not enough. There are too many competing influences in the present for distant futures to regulate current behavior. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2942

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Blindness to the future is the condition of strategic action. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 87