How We Got Conditioned Into Accepting Dystopia

<p>Take a glimpse at the headlines. The Greek wildfires are&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/world/europe/greece-wildfire-arson.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">record-breaking</a>. 5 dead in Michigan after&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/us/michigan-tornado-storm-deaths.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">storms</a>. Tenerife, on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjFxtL2pPiAAxWr0wIHHauyCfk4ChDF9AEoAHoECBAQAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Ftenerife-firefighters-stabilise-huge-wildfire-after-nine-days-2023-08-25%2F&amp;usg=AOvVaw3shQpU1DJj7vObgsD9doWC&amp;opi=89978449" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">fire</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/us/maui-fire-missing-list.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>388</em>&nbsp;people</a>&nbsp;are missing from the Maui wildfires. A new Covid variant, better than all the others at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/08/25/covid-variant-ba-2-86-pirola/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">evading immunity</a>. And inflation,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/25/fed-chair-inflation-jerome-powell" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">still on the rise</a>. Oh, and don&rsquo;t miss the&nbsp;<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/videos/weather/2023/08/23/fire-tornado-wildfires-canada-cprog-orig-af.cnn" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>fire tornado</em></a>&nbsp;in Canada.</p> <p><strong>We&rsquo;re hammered, you and I, with dystopia. It rains down on us daily like a deluge.&nbsp;</strong>Fascism, climate change, disinformation, nature being annihilated, the seasons changing into things we don&rsquo;t have words for, whole regions of the globe becoming Fire and Flood and Plague Belts.</p> <p>You&rsquo;d think, given all that, that people would be&nbsp;<em>fed up</em>. That they&rsquo;d be clamouring for transformation &mdash; not just &ldquo;change,&rdquo; whatever that even means, but profound, deep, lasting transformation. To institutions, constitutions, norms, values, these things we thoughtlessly call &ldquo;lifestyles.&rdquo;</p> <p><strong>You&rsquo;d think, given the sheer scale of dystopia thundering down on us, that&nbsp;<em>it&rsquo;d be an Age of Revolution</em>.&nbsp;</strong>But&hellip;<em>it&rsquo;s not</em>. Instead, it&rsquo;s an Age of indifference, of apathy, of resignation, fatalism, futility. It&rsquo;s an Age of Paralysis, an age of Pacification, instead of a Revolution.</p> <p><em>Something is very, very wrong with that.&nbsp;</em>That isn&rsquo;t remotely normal. When people are pushed to the brink &mdash; like we are, and I mean everything from countries to generations &mdash; normally,&nbsp;<em>they push back</em>. But&hellip;<em>we don&rsquo;t</em>.</p> <p><a href="https://eand.co/how-we-got-conditioned-into-accepting-dystopia-f472f335d34d"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>