NORMALCY BIAS (A Fool's Errand)
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All lot of us deal with normalcy bias to some degree or another. We all have expectations of future events based on past events. People in Aurora Co went to see a Batman movie, and just like the 100's of movies they'd seen before, fully expected the movie to play without incident. But life doesn't always play out as expected. We all have this bias to some degree, otherwise our brains would go mad at constantly believing the sky was falling and that ever person we encounter is a threat..
The challenge we face is learning to quickly recognize reality, true reality, and adjust. A good book that discusses this is 299 Days, by Glenn Tate. In 299 Days, the main character has a wife with sever normalcy bias, who is unable to envision a world that could change, or has changed. The wife didn't recognize reality. This is a major problem. In fact, I find normalcy bias is a common theme in most apocalyptic fiction. This is what always gets people in trouble.
At my work, we call this emotional intelligence, the ability to self assess and recognize fact from fiction (about ourselves). In our hiring and training program, new employees are constantly evaluated on their ability to self assess their current abilities and situation. If the trainee is aware enough to realize they effed up, and work to correct the problem, it's a LOT better than an employee who thinks they did a great job, when in reality they really suck.
In my personal life, I also deal with a spouse with normalcy bias, big time. While she tolerates my prepping, she absolutely thinks I'm being overly paranoid and she kinda thinks it's a joke. While the events of the last couple years has my wife more tolerant of my preps, she still has normalcy bias. Luckily my wife isn't as bad as the wife in 299 Days, as I don't have to hide my tactical skills/weapons and prepper pantry.. But lord help me if she finds out about that Conex container full of 5g buckets buried in our back yard...
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Oh, that's right. Everyone's thinking is flawed.
Except yours.
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Except yours.
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If someone makes an assumption, and that assumption is 100% invalid, it can be considered flawed. In point-of fact, substantially more than flawed.
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FIFY.
Look, I am dying after nearly 80 wonderful years. You alpha males on this forum need not be concerned with me intimidating your elite positions or status on this forum. I am only here to help.
Besides I am already an alpha male on the other prepping and/or survival forums. Some going back over twenty years.
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Are you bragging or complaining?
Sorry, that I am intimidating you.
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It's amazing you claim to know what everyone else thinks.
Lemme tell you something: NEITHER DO YOU.
You don't intimidate me one iota.
I think you're just a sad little troll.
Lemme tell you something: NEITHER DO YOU.
You don't intimidate me one iota.
I think you're just a sad little troll.
Sounds like a response from an Alpha poster, with high "post count" but marginal "Boots in the Field" survival experience.
When you start, please let me know.
Your mind is full of regurgitated internet beliefs about prepping for survival.
When the mind is full, there is no room for "Boots in the Field" survival wisdom. You are your own worst enemy for learning about prepping for survival.
Survival knowledge comes for decades of being willing to experience survival. Not from hearing hundreds of "canned" regurgitated answers put forth by those who's depth of prepping for survival knowledge came from others with zero firsthand survival experience regurgitating it on the internet.
The internet is one of the flaws with modern prepping teaching-learning.
The internet is one of the flaws with modern prepping teaching-learning.
I think it is strange that you have lived in so much nature and have such a limited and grim terminal viewpoint on medicine, saying doctors told you and btw, did you covid vax?
What I say is first hand? You just seem to think only you are? I don't give a tinkers dam if anybody makes it but mine? I'd like the elbow room.
I offer things of value here and there....you seem to just keep repeating "move to the woods/wont do you any good/cause you're all such a mary" and there's only so much value in that, one time.
I agree people need the experience in ideal circumstances, but that's not going to happen and they will just have to make do, pay attention and learn fast - the idea of experience speaking is them saving time and hazard when they are in the field. Saving crop, stock or life loss where they can and maximizing their gains. Gaining comprehension of tasks and subjects. Learning to think a year at a time and 5 years ahead.
Sure? Its going to be gnarly and lots of people are going to die like they were nothing (like they are already) and nothing is going to be able to stop that. Inexperienced survival people only benefit from all those losses in the form of less attackers or horrors to see later. Going on about it doesn't change it or help them? There will be people in high rises that make it and lifelong hillbillies dead in the cabin. Its not natural, its a military operation.
But yeah? Any help about not washing eggs and moving fast to get rid of infection isnt doing any harm and of all these readers, some will benefit? If there is something to benefit from, like a piece of pure silver in the milk to keep it longer
I offer things of value here and there....you seem to just keep repeating "move to the woods/wont do you any good/cause you're all such a mary" and there's only so much value in that, one time.
I agree people need the experience in ideal circumstances, but that's not going to happen and they will just have to make do, pay attention and learn fast - the idea of experience speaking is them saving time and hazard when they are in the field. Saving crop, stock or life loss where they can and maximizing their gains. Gaining comprehension of tasks and subjects. Learning to think a year at a time and 5 years ahead.
Sure? Its going to be gnarly and lots of people are going to die like they were nothing (like they are already) and nothing is going to be able to stop that. Inexperienced survival people only benefit from all those losses in the form of less attackers or horrors to see later. Going on about it doesn't change it or help them? There will be people in high rises that make it and lifelong hillbillies dead in the cabin. Its not natural, its a military operation.
But yeah? Any help about not washing eggs and moving fast to get rid of infection isnt doing any harm and of all these readers, some will benefit? If there is something to benefit from, like a piece of pure silver in the milk to keep it longer
You do not know the breadth of my knowledge.
You continue to use an idiom (Boots in the Field) that has no historical context pertaining to what you are implying it does.
You've yet to begin helping.
Again, let me know when you actually get around to that.
With your 11,239 posts I figure, you already know all the "canned" forum replies.
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