These are my core beliefs about how to get along in the world. There need be no commodities. Mental expectations set real limits. They are able because they think they are able. Virgil Optimism works better than pessimism.
Modern people have cro magnon brains.
Pre-agricultural troglodytes lived entirely in the now. Our brains didn't need to plan very far ahead, so looking longterm is not in our natural repertoire. Our brains seek patterns, often finding one when it's not intentionally there. As we retell a dream, our brains invent the context to make sense of nonsense. We do this in waking life as well, but are not conscious of it.