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Black Dog Syndrome
Apophenia
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Polychrisis
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The polycrisis illusion
For one thing, it’s always very easy to think that we live in an era uniquely chock-full of risks, disasters, and problems. This is because of something called the availability heuristic — we tend to think the things we read about are typical of the world at large. And both the news media and the social media shouters who crave our eyeballs have long ago realized that “no news is good news” — i.e., negative news is uniquely good at grabbing our attention. So the more we’re engaged with current events, the more we’re likely to see the world as defined by things that alarm us — this is the subject of the song “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, quoted at the top of this post.
This is not to say the world is free of crises and risks; there are plenty out there. Nor is it to say that our current era has less than others; this is very hard to judge. But the idea that these crises are all related may be a case of apophenia — our natural human tendency to perceive connections that don’t actually exist, or are far weaker than we think.
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Notes: welp. I was seaeching up why black cats are black (´tis so for Halloween!)...and found Black Dog Syndrome, the question of what color pets people prefer...heurestic...oh, this is apophenia again, and found the polycrisis blog post...I check in on the crisis everyday and wonder if my double word study...I´ve searched up apophenia compounded with the things and people in the news, aaand itś a commonplace noted by many...go figure!
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