“You see, when it comes to climate change, we are all in the writers’ room right now, deciding how the story unfolds and how it ends. And that story can be funny, dire, hopeful or all of the above. But not every story is guaranteed a happy ending, even though that’s mostly what we see in movies. So we can’t just sit back and watch. We are not an audience. Like it or not, we are in this story.”
Seriously, it has moved beyond sad and into dangerous. It’s straight up delusion of a kind that’s reinforced through media and a culture of identity as consumption. These are the bazinga Sorkin equivalents of all the punisher skull suburban commandos who forget to bring can openers to their survival compounds.
I’ve been saying for awhile now that roughly 100 years of mass media consumption has broken the brains of almost every living person. More of the inputs in our minds come from falsified fictional media than from real lived experience. We simply can’t differentiate the two in our thought proceesses. The consequences of this development are unpredictable in regards to society’s ability to make rational decisions.
