mastobit, 2 months ago @GhostOnTheHalfShell 📖 https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/sarah-kendzior/ #disasterCapitalism #climatechange #oligarchs #Gaza #pandemic #COVID #COVID19 #coronavirus #SARSCoV2 #plague #normalcybias #Trump #Biden #JaredKushner #Kushner #TransnationalCrimeSyndicate #Democrats #Republicans #books #bookstodon #SarahKendzior #TheyKnew If the reaction to covid is a test for how the powerful deal with climate change—let the plague spread, deny people resources, and hold no one accountable for the damage—we are in tremendous trouble. Everyone is assured that a savior is coming: an agent of the Lord or the law. I cannot attest to the former and I am pretty sure the latter broke down long ago, but I understand the rationalizations. It is a horrible feeling to be a pawn in someone else’s plot masquerading as prophecy. Kendzior, Sarah. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent (p. 122). Flatiron Books. Kindle Edition. Wouldn’t somebody do something, if it’s really that bad? Yes, they would: they would stand back and let you die and profit off the pain and other people would stand back and let them. Inertia is action; complacency is complicity. Normalcy bias is more destructive than paranoia. It encourages people to rationalize abhorrent behavior, to ignore open evidence of sadistic plots, and to dismiss the emotional resonance of an end times narrative as something intriguing only to fools. The most logical conclusion of why this is happening—powerful corporate and political actors have aligned to profit off predictable catastrophe, in what writer Naomi Klein has called “disaster capitalism”—is also the most horrifying. There is no way out but through, and that’s the crux of the fear. The apocalypse takes longer than you thought. Kendzior, Sarah. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent (pp. 122-123). Flatiron Books. Kindle Edition.
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If the reaction to covid is a test for how the powerful deal with climate change—let the plague spread, deny people resources, and hold no one accountable for the damage—we are in tremendous trouble. Everyone is assured that a savior is coming: an agent of the Lord or the law. I cannot attest to the former and I am pretty sure the latter broke down long ago, but I understand the rationalizations. It is a horrible feeling to be a pawn in someone else’s plot masquerading as prophecy. Kendzior, Sarah. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent (p. 122). Flatiron Books. Kindle Edition. Wouldn’t somebody do something, if it’s really that bad? Yes, they would: they would stand back and let you die and profit off the pain and other people would stand back and let them. Inertia is action; complacency is complicity. Normalcy bias is more destructive than paranoia. It encourages people to rationalize abhorrent behavior, to ignore open evidence of sadistic plots, and to dismiss the emotional resonance of an end times narrative as something intriguing only to fools. The most logical conclusion of why this is happening—powerful corporate and political actors have aligned to profit off predictable catastrophe, in what writer Naomi Klein has called “disaster capitalism”—is also the most horrifying. There is no way out but through, and that’s the crux of the fear. The apocalypse takes longer than you thought. Kendzior, Sarah. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent (pp. 122-123). Flatiron Books. Kindle Edition.
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