(June 16, 2016 at 6:37 am)mralstoner Wrote:(June 16, 2016 at 6:32 am)Alex K Wrote: This is clearly the end of the world. Clearly.
The normalcy bias, or normality bias, is a mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster and its possible effects.
Normalcy bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias
Australia is dead. Stone cold dead. There are signs of life if Europe's drift to the right, and with Trump, but barely a beating heartbeat down here.
I keep forgetting we're dead, only to be reminded in moments like this.
I must have missed that memo.
I swear, the government can't do so much as send out a notice of death these days.