Understanding context is a collective survival skill.

Evidence

Given that all of the issues that face us demand an understanding of complexity, interrelationship, and nuance, the ability to seek and understand context is nothing less than a collective survival skill. Looking both to the troubling present and to successful actions in the past suggests that we will require new kinds of alliances and formations, which will further require periods both of solitude and of intense connection and communication. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 561

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 561
• XREF: connects to: Human survival competence depends on inherited knowledge, not innate wit alone — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 41