proximoception | (no subject)

Now that default may actually happen I'm feeling more bemused than worried. If it does a bunch of people will certainly die, something that happens when many bunches of people go broke, so it's a terrible thing, one not at all to be desired. But part of me is getting very curious about how the different groups will look at one another, after. Obviously I know more or less how the people with sewn-shut eyes will be, and the ones already alert. But the rest, the sleepers! 2000, 2001, 2004, 2008 - who was at fault was clear enough to those looking, but they weren't caught red-handed by the drifting and distracted. But this - it will be impossible to not look this time. Will looking mean they'll see?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Yeah, all that. Sunk cost fallacy, confirmation bias, projection, cornered animal rage, misplaced loyalty. No one thing, pretty much all the things.

Watching it break apart is something to live for. To the extent I let myself believe it will.

I think we may live to see it break, with the stipulation that nearly everything else will break first.