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   Black Aziz Anansi :vm: (blackazizanansi@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 15:55:01 JST Black Aziz Anansi :vm:

   So did covid just do a number on everyone's ability to think critically?

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     Court Cantrell prefers not to (courtcan@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 15:55:00 JST Court Cantrell prefers not to

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     @BlackAzizAnansi I think partly yes.

     But the pandemic has caused what I theorize is mass PTSD. (For what the anecdote is worth, my therapist agrees with me.) One of the results is that the inability to think critically has been highlighted in many people who are traumatized enough that they can't mask their throughtlessness anymore.

     In so many ways, COVID hasn't *caused* a crisis. It has merely thrown into stark relief the crisis we were already in.

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     Fish Id Wardrobe (fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 03:23:15 JST Fish Id Wardrobe

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     @notGordonAllport @courtcan @BlackAzizAnansi Meh; I can't "do anything". The list of things I have the resources to do is far shorter than the list of things I don't.

     I can't, for example, give up my job in order to look after my disabled wife and daughter – even though I would like to, more than anything.

     We mostly do not have agency.

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     TRNottommy (notgordonallport@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 03:23:16 JST TRNottommy

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     @courtcan @fishidwardrobe @BlackAzizAnansi
     yes

     we can do anything, only we don’t; and the only barrier is ourselves

     inertia is the largest social force
     
     realizing we can change is terrible

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     Court Cantrell prefers not to (courtcan@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 03:23:17 JST Court Cantrell prefers not to

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     @fishidwardrobe @BlackAzizAnansi Exactly. Same with people working from home. The 1st pandemic year proved this a functional concept that we could've had for at least a decade already. But as soon as "we" could, back to the offices it was.

     Covid has shown us that positive social changes are possible. They're hovering right at our fingertips. If we collectively truly wanted them, we would grasp them and use them. We're collectively showing that much of our desire for change was just lip service.

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     Fish Id Wardrobe (fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 03:23:18 JST Fish Id Wardrobe

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     @courtcan @BlackAzizAnansi I think this is exactly right. In London in 2020, when it was thought that homeless folks might be a vector, suddenly we found a way to solve the homeless problem! We could have done that at any time! We could carry on doing it now!

     But, no. Those with the power to fix these things don't care to. That's a constant.