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I call this the "National Park effect". Being constantly coddled in some way dulls your ability to recognize when circumstances have changed, and those safegua
by ethbr0 5y ago
I call this the "National Park effect".
Being constantly coddled in some way dulls your ability to recognize when circumstances have changed, and those safeguards are no longer present.
See: tourists who wander off in National Parks with no cell service, with no water or survival gear, and then think it's a good idea to pet a bison
The concept of laying bleeding, miles from the nearest road, with broken bones, as night falls and the temperature drops is so foreign to their experience that it just isn't an imagined possibility.
- saalweachter 5y agoThere's also the "cynicism effect". If you believe "everyone does it" -- Congress, billionaire X, the C-suite at every company -- it becomes a lot easier to justify you doing it yourself. You're not doing anything wrong, everyone does it.
- nebula8804 5y ago>Being constantly coddled in some way dulls your ability to recognize when circumstances have changed, and those safeguards are no longer present. It will be interesting to see this happen nationwide if the music were to stop(or slow down) in the US economy as some are predicting.
- ethbr0 5y agoThat's what the 2008 crisis was at its root -- too many people, at all levels, who'd forgotten to be alert for danger and mistakenly assumed that the recent past served as fundamental bounds of future possibility.
- nebula8804 5y agoYes but a large chunk of the country never really felt the music stop in that crisis. I wonder if they find a way to keep kicking the can down the road indefinitely. If not, then we will finally see what happens.