A great one-liner from Matt. 🙂
Hi, Healthy Gamers, hope you're doing well! I'd like to ask your advice regarding trust.
The problem is I'm quite used to being kept in the dark or just blatantly lied to (not out of gain or malice, mostly just to brush me off). In such circumstance it's useful to notice little contradictions or understatements to navigate, call them out and get the information others most probably forgot to tell or thought it wouldn't be important for me to know. So no wonder my BS-meter has leveled up and can now cling to everything fishy.
I'm fine with people keeping secrets, making excuses and being inconsistent, what happens next is the worst part though, as it begs the question: "Are they also trying to brush me off?". Each time it signifies that the person also might see me as someone not valuable enough to keep informed. Of course the urge to call it out becomes maladaptive as it would invade people's privacy or is simply petty or is not even something I'm interested in but I'm left questioning our relationship and wondering what else they might not tell me about and leave me in the dark. In the end I reassure myself that it's ridiculous and they won't do that, then goes another fishy moment and the cycle repeats. Overall it's difficult to trust people when casual little lack of openness screams of possible desolation.
So the question is how does one calm down their BS-meter? I'd like to throw it in trash but it keeps being useful and redeeming itself. I'm not even sure how other's reticence turns into my disbelief. All I'm sure of is I'm tired of being frightened after noticing another inconsistency and will be glad to discuss it.
Hi all! I have a question about the show. I haven’t read the books. A spoiler follows:
Why doesn’t Baghra tell everyone, including the King, about Kirigan’s true identity? She opposes his plan, was training Alina to fight and presumably kill him, and has enough clout not to be dismissed as a liar.
Is Disaster Capitalism driving the reticence, inaction, and even denial, toward the rapidly-accelerating climate crisis.
Today, since early morning, I'd been wondering whether I should post a hypothesis on r/Collapse on whether there is a deflection point, a drop point, in profiteering from the growing climate crisis ("The Shock Doctrine, the Rise of Disaster Capitalism", Naomi Klein, 2007) where, as you say, commodities and resources become more scarce and hence rise in price while the demand stays the same or even grows with growing populations and economies in various countries. However, one would expect that at a point in the near future (e.g., a couple of decades), following the rise in prices and excessive profiteering and price gouging, when there is a phase shift in the collapse process, where the human societies begin their rapid descent toward anarchy, wars, famine, displacement, and death, those profit-making commodities would rapidly lose their customer-base and the supply chains would deteriorate to such extents that they could not connect the goods to the retailers and their customers. That's the point that climate crisis profiteering itself begins a death spiral.
The question that one could pose is whether there are numeric models that could forecast the initial upward trends and the timing of the downward turn or deflection point in profiteering from the ongoing climate crisis. If such models exist, one would be concerned that the reason, at least in part, for inaction in facing the current climate crisis by business leaders and the private sector and their political cronies in governments is that they are looking forward to collecting massive profits as competition (e.g., a majority of smaller or medium size businesses and states) in resources, manufactured goods, commodities, and services withers and what remains will concentrate (i.e, acquired, hostile takeovers, M&A, etc.) in the hands of powerful trusts and conglomerates.
