The word crisis gets thrown around way too much these days. It doesn’t help since experts in fields, at least by the time media translates the story, drops the word on any topic whether it’s an actual crisis or not.
There’s a mental health crisis. A climate crisis. A gun violence crisis. The problem with premature crisis declaration is folded into the conspiracy grifting world to use as talking points. When exactly does a crisis start? A mid-life crisis starts in mid-life. But is your dissatisfaction with your job and boredom with your spouse really a crisis? Monkeypox was nowhere near as bad, but fresh off Covid-19 pandemic talk declaring it a potential crisis was a story.
It’s really quite simple. A personal crisis like an unfaithful spouse can be identified easily. But the effects on others can be brushed aside. When that urban row home fire destroys your neighbor’s houses it’s not your problem other than the inconvenience of the fire trucks in the way of you getting to the liquor store. Your house being the only one destroyed by a fire is a personal crisis. A wildfire in the early stages is a potential crisis if it’s outside of town and an actual crisis when whole towns start falling into ashes from the flames.
Your more legitimate news outlets tend to declare crises prematurely so they are not to be left out while their competitors gain the advertising dollars sending reporters out to cover it. Fictional literature has it easy. Godzilla appears for the first time in an origin story reboot - there’s a giant fucking dinosaur blasting the shit out of buildings, an immediate crisis. Only in the sequels do you get a wondering if he might actually help versus the other giant fucking monster from outer space is worse. Do you really think it would be much of a movie if we know that giant asteroid is going to miss hitting our planet? Bruce Willis training montage “just in case” without an actual crisis? What really happens in the films are actual existential crises with personal crises mixed in to make the character’s more relatable. Somehow only Chuck the geologist is the only one good enough for the job, and he’s a raging alcoholic because his wife left him for the giant rampaging dinosaur expert.
Psychologically people with empathy issues have a hard time separating my house on fire versus my neighbor’s house on fire versus entire towns on fire versus the entire planet being on fire. Fortunately, we have our secret crisis detector system in place. The conspiracy grifter so called truth community. The bizarro land everything is opposite of what it really is community (which includes the psychological projection of declaring that “normies” are the ones being the opposite land inhabitants). If something is a personal crisis, it won’t be elevated to national news. Not enough attention. A potential crisis is a ritual that the evil cabal is mocking you with. (Yes, newcomers, that’s an actual thing. Individual celebrities are killed off for fun as a display of their evilness as part of a grand scheme that never materializes.) An actual full blown crisis is a hoax. How dare you think of supporting crisis relief donations instead of spending money on my sports picks or donating to my re-election campaign.
Reinforcing what has been said here often before, this is a part of the whole package of how the scams operate. It’s designed to generate a knee jerk emotional response by merging arbitrary scapegoats with fiction like nonexistent adrenochrome seeking pedophile masterminds who have space lasers. And people who haven’t had their house catch on fire or died of Covid related issues *vote* for these people.
Crisis relief requires a societal group effort. One person can’t fund all the insurance claims, rebuild the houses and get the utilities back up and running. We are addicted to convenience, and by default an actual crisis is extremely inconvenient.
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