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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People talk about the difference between those who have "the will to live" when stranded in the wilderness and those who don't, as though people who fail have consciously decided to make peace with death He said that's not his impression, and it'd be more comforting if it were
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It's not that people who do inexplicable, self-destructive things in a crisis have made peace with death and embraced it It's the exact opposite, they REFUSE to accept death, even the possibility of it, they think acting like what's happening isn't happening will save them
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And the common thread of survivor stories is that survivors at some point have a switch flip in their heads As bizarre and fucked up as the situation is, they accept that this is the situation You have to play by wilderness rules, civilization rules are over, they don't apply
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He got kind of highfalutin about it Baudrillard's quote about "mistaking the map for the territory" We all have a simplified "map" of the world for our daily lives to make the territory easier to handle, a bunch of rules overlaid on the physical reality
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