We live in a strange, silly world where people get outraged by inconsequential trivialities like stationary bike commercials, but can't muster any energy to mobilize in the face of the great issues of our time -- disinformation, the erosion of the rule of law, climate change...
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Could it be bike shedding applied to finding which issues to protest? The more concrete (hence smaller) issues are easier to identify, protest, and change than the larger ones?
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Stationary bike shedding
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we're a society that's tuned to hyper-react to local maxima (or minima)
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