Future planning depends on the stability and predictability of the social environment

Evidence

Whether, how, and to what extent the future is planned depends to a great degree on the stability and predictability of the social and cultural environment. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 96

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Trust stabilizes decision-making by pruning an over-complex future down to the present — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 23; Rational social planning necessarily requires fixed abstract space-time representations — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1609; Humans can override environmental dictates through symbolic future-thinking — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 154 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Trust stabilizes decision-making by pruning an over-complex future down to the present #corroborates (0.85) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 23
• Trust reduces future complexity by committing to a determinate future #corroborates (0.80) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 138
• Humans can override environmental dictates through symbolic future-thinking #qualifies (0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 154
• Rational social planning necessarily requires fixed abstract space-time representations #qualifies (0.70) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1609