A false sense of security, when punctured, turns into a false sense of crisis. The bipolar disorder of finite-game Utopianism/dystopianism.
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To figure out if a sense of crisis is well-founded, first check if the sense of security it disrupts is well-founded.
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By this heuristic, the "illegal immigrant crisis" is false, because it disrupts a false sense of American middle class economic security.
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Now trying to refine the test and apply it to more things. Key is to define a *true* sense of security, which is surprisingly hard.
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Sec v.subjective across many axes & varies within 1 human thru the day. Behav. psych & behav. econ re sec are active research fields :)
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