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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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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"Fair" is an interesting concept to me. It's so damn subjective and in most cases an extremly myopic way to view things. Right now we're just seeing that the rules which have always been in operation about how "get sick means you die" weren't beaten, just deferred.
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My therapist asked me if I thought all this was fair. And I said, "I don't believe in fair. I believe some of what we call unfair is the accumulation of injustice. But this pandemic is a consequence of our collective choices. You give up your agency when you call this unfair."
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I also pointed out that everything other people were calling "unfair" has been happening to humans, even our contemporaries, for millenia. Before CV-19, people were dying separated from their loved ones, isolated, afraid for the future, at risk. It just wasn't happening to US.
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