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> our modern civilization are in the grip of a paralyzing denial and fear of death I don't believe the US version of "Modern Society", for lack of a better ter
by Supermancho 5y ago
> our modern civilization are in the grip of a paralyzing denial and fear of death
I don't believe the US version of "Modern Society", for lack of a better term, is in denial of death.
There is an overblown expectation of informed consent. If I cross the street, I have been informed I might be hit by a vehicle. Look both ways, minimize the danger. It's still there though.
If I have a child, they have to be educated, which generally means they have to go to a public school, where I have been informed they will get a minimal education. I was NOT informed that someone might come in and shoot my kid. Now we have drills and I have been informed, so it's all ok again.
COVID was sensationalized and (in the US) people felt like they had no information, so there was no informed consent as to when and where to go out safely. This is the reason COVID has been blown out of proportion. The information was initially unavailable, then it has been changing. This fails the basic tenet of Modern Civilization. We are informed about dangers to make our own behavioral linear optimizations.
Next up, vaccines and informed consent. Then people are still getting sick. There are news outlets playing it up as if the information was possibly bad and might change again. What constitutes informed consent is not uniform and people argue about it and politicize it.
The problem is that the news about the virus was as direct as the WHO (it's endemic, everyone will get it eventually) a bunch of messaging gets amplified or contradicted and the political ramifications are too high now. Note, even though the messaging shifted similarly in the relatively small area of Israel, there was uniform behavior.
They also don't pull punches when it comes to informing the population about dangers, which the US tends to do. This is because the media runs wild with anything they are given (how could it be worse?! is it overblown!? et al)