>The cognitive dissonance I'm seeing in the tech community on this issue is interesting. Fear does funny things to people. It makes them irrational and incapab

>The cognitive dissonance I'm seeing in the tech community on this issue is interesting. Fear does funny things to people. It makes them irrational and incapable of thinking clearly. It makes them susceptible to mass group behaviour and lowers their resistance to authority. The last three months has kept people in a constant state of fear and panic driven on entirely by the media. As people are getting over their fear, there's still that nagging voice in the back of their mind telling them they're going to die. Fear of death leads people to act in contradictory and irrational ways. Death is inevitable sooner or later. Getting over the fear of death helps you to stay rational during situations where everyone's panicking. As your fear lessens, you begin to question decisions you made during that fear state because usually they're not the best decisions. It's that whole fight or flight response thing. In the end as rational and reasonable humans think they are, as soom as stress overwhelms them to that point of panic and fear, the lizard brain takes over and people act on instinct. Fear is a powerful emotion, it protects us from threats and danger, but succumbing to it leaves you powerless and vulnerable to control. Nearly every dictator of the 20th century has come into power because their populations were afraid of something and they used that fear to take control. That's what the majority of the world's been doing for months. Different people tend to come down from that state at different rates but as this goes on and continues to be not the apocolypse that was pushed on everyone, more people will begin to question what they've allowed to happen. Inciting fear is a constant and age old tactic of those that would oppress to gain power over those they would oppress.