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      Adaption would mean that you accept the new normal as normal. Hypernormalizing shows that you are (yet) not adapting. At least in my book.

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        It certainly looks like people are adapting mentally. What level of adaptation are you thinking of?

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          Getting enough food supplies to last a season. Having plans for what to do if the power goes out for a week. Having a bug-out bag ready to go. Connecting with a community to prep for potential self-sufficiency. Learning skills that would be useful in a post-global trade scenario. Getting money out of banks and into tools and goods you can give away or sell. etc.

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    In January, the comedian Ashley Bez posted an Instagram

    Found the problem

    While social media can aid social connection, there is a growing body of evidence devoted to the damaging impacts of social media on mental health and wellbeing, in particular research demonstrating increased social media use leads to social isolation, stress, depression, and anxiety.7

    That’s why

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        Yanks are an amazing example of learnt helplessness

        They shrug their shoulders, because most of them have absolutely no idea that better ways exist, or they’re just too busy trying to survive (which has been carefully and deliberately engineered)

        As individuals I can’t blame them, but as a society I hold it in contempt

        If they spent a fraction of their energy working together rather than trying to tear each other down, they wouldn’t be in this shitty situation

        The US really is a crab-pile, and other societies see it as a warning (mostly… Turkyie, Hungary, Argentina and some others need a kick in the arse)