2025.11.07
glad i went back and watched it after skimming it. it's fairly non-hysteric, but I do wonder about the days after a big blackout, whether EMP/terrorist or solar flare or something. I don't want to become a hardcore doomsday prepper but I'm realizing it might make sense to do a little more hedging and stockpiling. (Honestly I think my partner's love of camping and improv cooking would be potentially very useful.)
I think back to when I was trying to spread the good/mildly fearful word in the run up to Y2K: I made a big page on my loveblender romance poetry site.
And of course I'm speaking from a place of never having lived through too much; but different parts of the world have muddled through a lot. And a lot of people have died; but many have lived.
The truly frightening thing about totalitarianism is not that it commits atrocities, but that it attacks the concept of objective truth; it claims to control the past as well as the future.thinking about Scott Adams and his defense of Trump in terms of "truth doesn't matter only persuasion matters" type thinking