My early 2021 "New Years" prediction.
Its not really stupid. 'Normally' its a survival trait to but your faith in 'normal' things because it keeps you from reacting to false stimuli.....which most things are. 99% of the time something catches your attention, its nothing. If we jumped at every alarm we would never get anything done.
The problem is, that something a thing will catch your attention , you will look at it, gather information and see that its a huge deal, but normalcy bias will be so bad you will still treat it like nothing.
A really good book on this is "The Unthinkable" By Amanda Ripley. The first chapter is on 9/11 and its shocking.
Its not really stupid. 'Normally' its a survival trait to but your faith in 'normal' things because it keeps you from reacting to false stimuli.....which most things are. 99% of the time something catches your attention, its nothing. If we jumped at every alarm we would never get anything done.
The problem is, that something a thing will catch your attention , you will look at it, gather information and see that its a huge deal, but normalcy bias will be so bad you will still treat it like nothing.
A really good book on this is "The Unthinkable" By Amanda Ripley. The first chapter is on 9/11 and its shocking.
contemplate the unthinkable.....!!
ponder 4th and 5th generation warfare !
I think this is as close as I think. I am pretty bad at normal most of the time. Weird things like knowing how much corn we eat in a year, I'm all over. By the way, corn consumption isn't a hot topic in most crowds but come SHTF scenario, it's good to know.The way I think of is that eccentrics, like survivalists and others are evolutions way of hedging its bets. Most people are good at living a normal life in normal times, which is logical because that is the usual state of things.
A few people may not be very good at being normal but who are the ones who will survive the abnormal times. It doesn't make us better than the normals, heck, most of the time we are failures in the normal world at the normal stuff that comes so easily to normies.
But when the going gets weird, the weird get going, and people like us end up being the bridge between islands of normality, even if we struggle with that normalcy itself.
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