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> Half the people in the country either a) want to watch everything burn, because the system has served them poorly for too long I believe this as well, but it

• Aromasin 2y ago
  No, they don't. Most people don't seem to get beyond 1st order thinking. At best, it's cause and effect - 3rd/4th/5th order effects are just not computable. If X then Y is the best they can manage.
• tialaramex 2y ago
  Nope. "Nothing could be worse than this" is really common even though it's a complete failure of imagination.
  • steve_adams_86 2y ago
    Absolutely. In part it’s a privilege to believe this. Many of us have had such remarkably and almost impossibly easy lives.
• steve_adams_86 2y ago
  Canada has this problem too. We’ve been coddled for a long time and many Canadians think they’ve got the government’s boot on their neck. The reality is the inverse. The worst things our leadership has done in the last ten years are, all things considered, very bearable. I’ve been thinking for some time that both our countries need some kind of wake up call. I’m very sad that we seem to be getting one simultaneously, yet it might not be a reversible event. At least not on any short order. But yeah, the lack of truly bad experiences seems to have made us all very soft. I know some of us experience poverty or immigrated from horrible governments so we know firsthand how much worse things can be, but on average I get the sense that people typically have no idea.