A former boss is a great zerohedge aficionado and constantly posts their stuff to his Twitter. He is locally famous for having predicted about 35 of the past 2 downturns in the Sydney property market.
"log off and engage with efforts to fix the problem at a local level"
I'm no psychologist, but is that really helping or just reaffirming the doomy feeling? Sounds like recommending an alcoholic only drink low-strength beer instead of spirits. I would have thought it would be healthier to work on something orthogonal to it not towards the same goal as the worry.
I don't get what makes it so hard to understand that avoiding content like that and keeping a positive mindset will always be the better option for your life, independent of what will actually happen.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
There's unlikely to be a giant, sudden collapse... it's just things are getting ever-so-slight worse over time until the US becomes a mirror of Brazil or Mexico. (Boiling frog)
The shrinking upper-/middle-class doesn't want to see what's happening because it doesn't affect them right now.
- Collapse - Jared Diamond
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I-VI - Edward Gibbon
- America: The Farewell Tour - Chris Hedges
- The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic - Chalmers Johnson
Arguably, the US has been in decline since WW2 because of a presumed entitlement to excellence/exceptionalism rather than delivery it. The scenario isn't intractable; it's cultural, psychological, and socioeconomic related to community, individual power, civic involvement, and standing-up to the ultra-rich to remove their corrupt stranglehold on lawmaking and policy.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 35.5 ms ] threadI'm no psychologist, but is that really helping or just reaffirming the doomy feeling? Sounds like recommending an alcoholic only drink low-strength beer instead of spirits. I would have thought it would be healthier to work on something orthogonal to it not towards the same goal as the worry.
There's unlikely to be a giant, sudden collapse... it's just things are getting ever-so-slight worse over time until the US becomes a mirror of Brazil or Mexico. (Boiling frog)
The shrinking upper-/middle-class doesn't want to see what's happening because it doesn't affect them right now.
- Collapse - Jared Diamond
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I-VI - Edward Gibbon
- America: The Farewell Tour - Chris Hedges
- The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic - Chalmers Johnson
Arguably, the US has been in decline since WW2 because of a presumed entitlement to excellence/exceptionalism rather than delivery it. The scenario isn't intractable; it's cultural, psychological, and socioeconomic related to community, individual power, civic involvement, and standing-up to the ultra-rich to remove their corrupt stranglehold on lawmaking and policy.