03-15-2020, 02:41 PM
(03-15-2020, 02:21 PM)Mister Obvious Wrote: It's honestly pretty hard to turn away from watching the event that you've talked about and seen coming for over 15 years...
I can tell it's gonna be a daily struggle.
Living in a sophisticated civilization necessarily entails a shitload of denial on the part of the participants.
By all rights, humans should be toiling in the fields from sunrise to sunset just to put bread on the table. We've been extremely fortunate to not have to do that for the last 150 some odd years.
We constantly have to pretend to ourselves and each other that the world we know, with all of its excesses and conveniences and "first world problems," is completely normal. Our society couldn't function if we acknowledged that doomsday could come at any moment. The Cold War era was pretty much a living parody of this state of affairs.
One disaster is all it takes to bring the whole thing crashing down. It has always been just around the corner, and, if civilization recovers this time, it will once again always be there.
