Coronavirus thread. Content warning: 50/50 chance this will help vs harm. If you are comforted by sideways philosophical arguments read on. If not, I refer you the next tweet on my timeline.
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No typo, I used 'I' not 'one', because I mean me. I see the emotions I've felt so far as useful signals about the implications of the virus on the things I care about. They're also needs because if I suppress them it's bad for me - eg producing circular/anxious thoughts
If you see them that way then that’s great. I’m seeing other people in constant fear, disproportionate to the problem. The collective psychology of panic also seems to be causing more problems than it’s solving.
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I see a wide variety, lots of people I know are like 'lol this is a fuss over nothing'. People's emotions correspond to their understanding of the risks and they all have wildly different heuristics / criteria for sufficient evidence of risk
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I don’t particularly agree that as a rule people’s emotions are correlated to their understanding of risk.
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I'm still open to a thesis of 'crisis of meaning' btw, I just don't really understand that thesis currently. The closest thing I can match it with is the idea that we tend to delude ourselves on what's important in life, and our emotions at a time like this reveal that to us
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Can you say more about what you don’t understand?
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