Normalcy Bias I’m still in this state of shock over how much of my view of the world was a lie. I just find it so incredible that I’ve unknowingly participated in and perpetuated a complete fantasy. How could we, as a society, believe that energy was an unlimited resource? Of course, we had help in believing this fantasy. The big oil companies controlled by the Rockefeller family certainly wanted us to believe that oil was a never-ending supply of energy. But, it’s not fair to lay the blame solely at the feet of the Rockefellers. We wanted to believe that cheap energy would always be available. We helped inflate this fantasy of unlimited energy because we wanted to believe it. And, we went on to build an incredible civilization that could only survive if unlimited energy were in fact, truth. Unlimited energy is a shocking deception – along with unlimited copper, unlimited aluminum, unlimited growth, unlimited water… unlimited ANYTHING. There are limits, and we’ve run into them. But, we’ve talked about limits, and I’d rather talk about this state of shock that I’m struggling with. And, it has a lot to do with this interesting phrase that I heard a couple years ago: Normalcy Bias. What in ingenious paring of words that captures our situation so completely. Just five syllables that pronounce doom for us all: Nor-mal-cy Bi-as. ------------------------------------------- Read the rest of my article, here: omegashock/2013/08/06/normalcy-bias/
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 10:49:42 +0000