How We Got Conditioned Into Accepting Dystopia
<p>Take a glimpse at the headlines. The Greek wildfires are <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 <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 <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjFxtL2pPiAAxWr0wIHHauyCfk4ChDF9AEoAHoECBAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Ftenerife-firefighters-stabilise-huge-wildfire-after-nine-days-2023-08-25%2F&usg=AOvVaw3shQpU1DJj7vObgsD9doWC&opi=89978449" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">fire</a>. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/us/maui-fire-missing-list.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>388</em> people</a> are missing from the Maui wildfires. A new Covid variant, better than all the others at <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, <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’t miss the <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> in Canada.</p>
<p><strong>We’re hammered, you and I, with dystopia. It rains down on us daily like a deluge. </strong>Fascism, climate change, disinformation, nature being annihilated, the seasons changing into things we don’t have words for, whole regions of the globe becoming Fire and Flood and Plague Belts.</p>
<p>You’d think, given all that, that people would be <em>fed up</em>. That they’d be clamouring for transformation — not just “change,” whatever that even means, but profound, deep, lasting transformation. To institutions, constitutions, norms, values, these things we thoughtlessly call “lifestyles.”</p>
<p><strong>You’d think, given the sheer scale of dystopia thundering down on us, that <em>it’d be an Age of Revolution</em>. </strong>But…<em>it’s not</em>. Instead, it’s an Age of indifference, of apathy, of resignation, fatalism, futility. It’s an Age of Paralysis, an age of Pacification, instead of a Revolution.</p>
<p><em>Something is very, very wrong with that. </em>That isn’t remotely normal. When people are pushed to the brink — like we are, and I mean everything from countries to generations — normally, <em>they push back</em>. But…<em>we don’t</em>.</p>
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