Post ATcpjw68GVMhl7h7ey by dn@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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 (DIR) Post #ATcaNA1xtd5OsXO43c by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2023-03-14T23:20:14Z
       
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       #ShowerThoughts: people have an uncanny ability to come up with mental flexes that allow them to *not think* about particular things. No amount of expert knowledge can convince people of anything within a domain they don't want to think about.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATcaZvwLb1BWwSqlG4 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2023-03-14T23:22:33Z
       
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       Examples of these thought-terminating cliches include the 'nothing to hide, nothing to fear'  flex by which people avoid thinking about the growing surveillance nightmare, and 'the climate has always changed' as a way to avoid thinking about anthropogenic climate change.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATcbcRjYSVgM57d1eq by MolnarSteven@urbanists.social
       2023-03-14T23:34:09Z
       
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       @strypey As Upton Sinclair said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” I had a recent experience of this with an otherwise reasonably intelligent boiler repair man.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATcdSj31Qm2MnCE796 by BrilleBhrealla@mastodon.ie
       2023-03-14T23:54:49Z
       
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       @strypey  ever get into terror management theory (psychology)? Basically,it's that humans know we're gonna die and spend our lives doing culture and thought and meaning and consumption and anything else we can to distract ourselves and mitigate the fear. It explains the pancultural rituals of funerals, for example, or the patriotism seen in the USA after 9/11. A fun theory, imo.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATcpjw68GVMhl7h7ey by dn@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2023-03-15T02:12:23Z
       
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       @strypey You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink...
       
 (DIR) Post #ATeX9JNVKyqqO77u7s by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2023-03-15T21:53:32Z
       
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       @BrilleBhrealla> humans know we're gonna die and spend our lives doing culture and thought and meaning and consumption and anything else we can to distract ourselves and mitigate the fearI first came across this proposition in 'Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway'. I suspect it's the uncertainty about death that's scary, more than the observation that life seems to end for everyone eventually.