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126 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 07 Sep 25 12:57 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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mschuster91 ◴[07 Sep 25 13:55 UTC] No.45158175[source]▶

Ignorance is bliss, eh? But don't come and pull off the "we didn't know anything" excuse that the Germans used in droves after 1945.

And no, that's not exclusive to Trump and what ICE has been up to, vanishing people into deportation camps. Climate change, the increasing frequency of pandemics, PFAS/forever chemicals, the list of stuff being swept under the rug instead of being acted against grows longer by the day.

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1. giuliomagnifico ◴[07 Sep 25 14:09 UTC] No.45158283[source]▶

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In my opinion, it's not ignorance but fear and anxiety. When you have too much information, even conflicting, the human brain rejects all.

It's like when you watch an ad for an insect repellent: if they show you all those disgusting insects, the ad disgusts you so much that you avoid the product. It's a phenomenon known in psychology.

Now the trend is the same with news and media.

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More and more people are tuning the news out: 'Now I don't have that anxiety