We’ve Hit Peak Denial. Here’s Why We Can’t Turn Away From Reality

1. 2024-06-26 at 8:33 PM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   We’ve Hit Peak Denial. Here’s Why We Can’t Turn Away From Reality
   
   

   But what happens when overlooking and tolerating greater levels of harm becomes a shared cultural habit? Like the proverbial frog in boiling water, we acclimate to ignoring more and caring less at our own peril. In the short term, living in a state of peak denial helps us cope. In the long run, it will be our undoing. Because the danger here is desensitization: that we meet this unprecedented litany of “wicked problems,” from climate change to the rise of fascism, with passive acceptance rather than urgent collective action.

2. 2024-06-26 at 9:22 PM UTC

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   Vox Houston

   According to data from wastewater, the second biggest COVID surge occurred this winter. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates at least 24,000 people have died of COVID so far in 2024.

   
   Well let’s see, the year is half over. That’s about half as many as people die of the cold and flu every year…
   
   So it’s basically the flu now. Did we ever shut down the economy over the flu? Why is this even a point to make anymore? It’s not a headline.
   
   Whoever wrote this is a hack and a moron
3. 2024-06-26 at 9:24 PM UTC

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   Vox Houston
   Also I can make the opposite point, woke liberals and maga conservatives are way TOO keyed into the issues right now. No one can ignore even a single slight against their identity politics no matter how insignificant. Everyone thinks they’re a god damn activist about whatever’s in the news currently, and it’s just making people more incensed while offering no solutions
4. 2024-06-26 at 10:56 PM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   May we ever stand ready to speak God's truth, even if we, too, are yelling into the void, for it is a far better place to be than living in it.
5. 2024-06-26 at 11:52 PM UTC

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   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole

   Originally posted by Vox Also I can make the opposite point, woke liberals and maga conservatives are way TOO keyed into the issues right now. No one can ignore even a single slight against their identity politics no matter how insignificant. Everyone thinks they’re a god damn activist about whatever’s in the news currently, and it’s just making people more incensed while offering no solutions

   
   peak denial ^