Hacker News has an extreme problem with cognitive dissonance as the collapse of industrial society becomes harder and harder to ignore. Pandemic is just a mild

Hacker News has an extreme problem with cognitive dissonance as the collapse of industrial society becomes harder and harder to ignore. Pandemic is just a mild symptom of this, the increasing impact of climate change is a much more severe one. The trouble is that tech and the startup community in general derive much of their meaning from the idea that "tomorrow will be better". Nearly all programmers that I know, got into the field because of what they dream it could be tomorrow. There is an implicitly understanding that the things we build today are just the foundation for a brighter future. In a more practical, less ideological sense, the entire startup/VC ecosystem depends on tomorrow being better and brighter since everything we are doing is leveraged against the future, literally. If the future were to be worse than today, that would ultimately fall apart. However, as the signs that the future is dimming become more apparent, the vast majority of the HN community are forced into a position of existential angst that they are not prepared for. This leads to a general increase in hostility about any topic related to a changing world. People will lose their minds in discussions about remote work (especially people who want to return to "normal", discussion of pandemic is filled with people who don't want to vaccinate or wear masks as a means of denying the pandemic is happening, climate change articles are filled with denial comments almost immediately, and very offend flagged off the home page very quickly. Many members of this community are under extreme stress and anxiety because a reality they don't want to see continues to creep in. The result of this an angrier more agressive, more scared community.