So no matter what you get normalization You have to be able to function somehow so you try to make whatever fucked-up thing happened okay in your mind so you can go about your business
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Things got as bad as they have because of how this works and I don't see any reason why they can't continue to get worse
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Our ability to adapt is the most powerful thing about humanity, for good and bad.
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There is no bottom
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Some peoples’ emotional response to living in this disaster is disproportionate to how morally repugnancy of it all brain function could be factor in USAians are responding to our death toll by normalizing it instead expressing abject horror but that’s framing is incomplete
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Personal experience is a factor in comprehending economies of scale How language+socialization shape cognition factor into an ability to embody what we like to think is the ideal\correct socioemotional response to Everyone in Richmond,VA or Kalamazoo Cty,MI dying in 8 months
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Your brain probably caps off at about 100 people maybe and then it’s just completely lost perspective after that I’d imagine
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"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." --Stalin (although probably apocryphal)
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I’d like for someone to document and describe the individuals we’re losing to the pandemic. Not everyone will have survivors who can agree and help, but enough would.
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“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” - Stalin
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