Normalcy Bias: The Looming Global Scarcity & Collapse
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Are we too comfortable to see the coming storm? This discussion exposes the dangers of "normalcy bias" and cognitive dissonance prevalent among many Americans, who believe past stability guarantees future safety. Even after COVID's lessons, a deep-seated belief in American exceptionalism prevents us from recognizing severe, impending global shifts.
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What do you say to let's just say the average American that I think is infected by this disease called normalcy bias or cognitive dissonance, right? Which is this is America, right? Like I've never had to had these issues. Even after COVID, right? You you'd think that a lot of people after COVID would realize that the the powers that be are capable of very severe changes and ruling and authoritarian rule on the people. Um and not just the kind of lockdown type scenario, but even looking at people thinking, oh, okay, well, yeah, COVID hit and you know, they were told there were shortages, but we're we're fine. Um I think that this is one of the biggest things that I think also has been really engineered into our society to weaken us is this normalcy bias. This idea that America, this is this is like the greatest nation on earth. We're never going to have these these issues. But what do you what would you say to that? Well, you may recall during COVID, oil went to negative pricing. There was so much oil I remember that. in the world that it went to like minus ...