I feel like elaborating on this I used to have a fascination with stories about people who survive disasters and what makes someone resilient in extreme conditions (which I totally am not) I read a book about it and the guy said the most dangerous thing was denialhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1250222170304729088 …
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Hacking your own arm off is horrible, too awful to think about, but NO ONE KNOWS YOU'RE HERE and NO ONE IS SENDING HELP and if you don't do it YOU WILL DIE HERE Etc, etc
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It's not that people who refuse to do these things and then die made a *rational choice*, that they actually said "I would rather die than eat bugs", "I would rather drown than take my shirt off and let people see me naked" It's "I can't believe this is allowed, this isn't fair"
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This inability to accept that the universe isn't fair, that the fairness you think is the way the world works was imposed on reality by a lot of people's daily effort, the collective project we call "civilization", and if you fall through its cracks all kinds of shit happens
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Like Michael Scott driving right into the lake, in an almost too perfect reference to Baudrillard Refusing to accept the plain evidence of your senses that there's a lake there and not a road because you just won't let go of the map, you can't function without it
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And now our whole civilization is going through a crisis where a ton of details from the map that people thought were laws of nature have been ripped away All those finance tips about the stock market returning 4% every year or renters will always pay your mortgage for you
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"They can't just CLOSE EVERYTHING, they can't just LAY EVERYONE OFF, we can't have a Second Great Depression RIGHT NOW, in my lifetime, they promised with the Fed and the SEC no such thing was possible ever again This can't be happening"
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Again and again that childlike whine of THIS ISN'T FAIR, THIS ISN'T RIGHT, I CAN'T BE EXPECTED TO LIVE LIKE THIS You're right, it fucking sucks, there's nothing good about it, but there's no manager to complain to who can magically make a virus go away because it's wrong
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And the guy was very harsh, he said that people who talk like this may be very smart and very kind and very hardworking decent generous people in normal civilized life But that tone of voice in a time of disaster is the sound of a dead man walking
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It's really striking the extent to which people will actually do the opposite, even in a whole range of circumstances. Like people who won't get help when they're choking.
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