10 Reasons Why Societies Fail to Respond to Their Greatest Threats

I suggest reading the whole article


https://www.okdoomer.io/you-arent-the-one-panicking-they-are/


Jessica Wildfire
Dec.7, 2023




Let's face it, we're a mess.


Most of us know we're not doing enough to deal with our greatest threats. Every day, we witness the dumbest behavior, things that seem to fly in the face of our most basic survival instincts.


We ask, "Why???"


The human brain evolved over millions of years. Most psychologists agree, it's good at responding to immediate threats.


It's terrible at responding to slow, gradual threats, even when they're far more important. As Brian Merchant writes in Vice, "Humans have, historically, proven absolutely awful, even incapable, of comprehending the large, looming... slow burn threats facing their societies." In Collapse, Jared Diamond chronicles how leaders of past civilizations failed to address clear dangers because it was easier to shrug them off and downplay them.


As it turns out, there's a lot wrong with the human brain. It's full of contradictory impulses that fight against our better reasoning.


Here's a list:


1) People don't take invisible threats seriously.


Our biggest threats now are invisible.


2) Everyone thinks, "It won't happen to me."


3) People get high off ignoring threats.



It feels good to blow off warnings.

For a lot of people, it delivers a dopamine boost. It gives them a sense of power and control, however fleeting it might be.




4) People shoot the messenger.




People tend to get punished for delivering bad news. Instead of being listened to, they're gaslit and pathologized. They're demonized.




5) People trust their gut too much.




6) People want to forget collective trauma.




7) People can adjust to almost anything.




8) People defend what they consider normal.




Once someone adjusts to a horrible normal, they prefer it.

Change scares them.




9) Most people just want to fit in.

Our desire for social acceptance often overrides our survival instincts, short-circuiting our normal threat response.




10) The elites always panic.

The super rich seem to grasp all of these glitches, at least on an intuitive level. They exploit them for their personal gain.

The corporate media has fallen into a predictable pattern over the last several years, downplaying and dismissing threats instead of giving the public reliable and accurate information. The super rich don't care about saving people. Instead, they obsess over protecting their property from looters and securing the most resources for themselves. They don't want ordinary people to take action, because that threatens their own interests.