I don’t think any of us will ever feel normal again. It’s so exhausting. I just want to go back to, like, 2009 so fucking badly.

  • Sagrotan
    4•8 months ago

    Since ww2 life itself on earth is becoming safer and more peaceful in general, but people feel more and more unsafe. Hm. As if people believe more and more media propaganda. Yes, I know, wars all over, I’m talking about the general average, and that’s a fact - I’m not saying “don’t be concerned”. No. I am concerned. But a culture of fear and hatred is very much detrimental to human development. That actually concerns me. Call me naive, but i sincerely believe that - if we survive - it’ll be better in the end. Some day. It’s just so sad about all the suffering until then. And it’s so painfully sloooooow.

    • @JayleneSlide
      3•8 months ago

      The Blue Dot Effect (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aap8731) demonstrates that when stimuli, especially negative stimuli, become rare, human brains broaden the accepted criteria for those stimuli.

      Why do some social problems seem so intractable? In a series of experiments, we show that people often respond to decreases in the prevalence of a stimulus by expanding their concept of it. When blue dots became rare, participants began to see purple dots as blue; when threatening faces became rare, participants began to see neutral faces as threatening; and when unethical requests became rare, participants began to see innocuous requests as unethical. This “prevalence-induced concept change” occurred even when participants were forewarned about it and even when they were instructed and paid to resist it. Social problems may seem intractable in part because reductions in their prevalence lead people to see more of them.