People are in economic distress. They’re hurting and uncertain. But the ability to connect what's happening to their actual lives, to correctly attribute the cause, seems beyond most people's ability/willingness to look reality in the eye.

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I think covid is what actually broke us. The preference for unreality had been going strong for a minority, but covid is when it broke containment and the *majority* of people NOPE'd out of reality and truth-seeking.

The triumph of normalcy bias.

No reality, no truths, just meme.

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Now the fash will simply delete the data.

Stop tracking the weather.

Fire the scientists.

Housing insurance will double but no one will attribute it to climate change.

No reality, no truths, just scapegoats.
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