The belief that we will come up with the one idea that will save the species from pending demise is a cognitive bias. It presents a hypothetical grand solution as though to a simplistic problem while selectively disregarding the systemic collapse already underway that presents an ever-growing host of compounded problems that must now be …
Apply the post-truth methodology to a state’s primary media function—justifying war—and you can easily foresee Russia using a 100 megaton device against the US to ‘equalize’ the balance of power, and then simply maintaining that the US started a war. After all, truth is inaccessible in a post-truth environment. Like in a fundamentalist church, all …
We’re on the 40th floor of a high rise building. There is a fire alarm. We ignore it. Someone knocks at the door and says we must evacuate. We ignore that. Eventually, the power dies, and the room is getting hotter. We look out the windows. We see the lower floors are engulfed in flames …
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