Interesting little presentation.

I recall that Austrian economist and anarcho-monarchist Hans-Hermann Hoppe got into some controversy as a professor talking about time preference and homosexuality due to technical inability to reproduce (outside of adoption). The discussion of time preference is supposed to be neutral, or that is at least how Zimbardo ends his presentation. But given that so much of our culture values wealth, its generation and hoarding, we tend to assume that a future oriented perspective is "superior." Certainly Zimbardo's discussion of present hedonistic time preference among our youth as a disaster has some clear moral connotations.

Zimbardo has a book out, "The Time Paradox" that seems to fall under the "self-help" genre. I don't know what could be gotten out of the book that the video doesn't provide, as the idea itself is rather simple and easy to grasp. It's the differences in how people develop these time preferences that would offer some interest to political theorists. Anyone who doesn't plan would be unlikely to push for long term political change, or even be well equipped to respond to long term challenges.