I “suffered” quite a bit from this when extracting myself from religion, which takes the “Univese has a fail-safe” feeling to great heights (it’s my personal candidate for the strongest emotion keeping people in religion).
My advice is to “accept things one cannot change” and compartmentalize them away. This manifests in my attitude to survivalism: I am somewhat prepared for things I can do something about, but that 2-mile tsunami (or stray bullet in the head) possibility, well, I don’t think about it (other than another reason to develop FAI; I am a small donor to the known organization).
There is another aspect to this; I notice that people who are good at explicit thinking under-utilize the rest of their mind, to the extent to not doing much unless they “figure it out logically”. There is much to be said for psychological normalcy, having IRL friends, hobbies, etc. This is an important part of winning.
This manifests in my attitude to survivalism: I am somewhat prepared for things I can do something about.
Well, let’s talk about that for a moment. What are some reasonable things to do to prepare for disaster? I have thought about stockpiling water, iodine, vitamins, and stuff like that. Also about getting a second passport. I don’t have a keen grasp on what’s reasonable and what’s paranoia. I’m also not sure what kinds of disasters are worth living through—water seems like a no-brainer; the water supply could easily be interrupted and travel cut off in my city for a few days without anywhere near enough damage to collapse civilization. Vitamins, a little bit less so—if I actually have to worry about scurvy because the canned fruit has run out and there’s no way to travel 200 miles to the farms (I’m in California), maybe there isn’t too much worth living for.
not the best reference content, but he works it out like a rational person, rather than give caches answers “from his army training”, like some other authors (however good they might be)
I notice that people who are good at explicit thinking under-utilize the rest of their mind, to the extent to not doing much unless they “figure it out logically”. There is much to be said for psychological normalcy, having IRL friends, hobbies, etc. This is an important part of winning.
Agree on all fronts. Part of why I’m scared this week and not some other week is because my IRL friends have mostly checked out for Xmas.
I “suffered” quite a bit from this when extracting myself from religion, which takes the “Univese has a fail-safe” feeling to great heights (it’s my personal candidate for the strongest emotion keeping people in religion).
My advice is to “accept things one cannot change” and compartmentalize them away. This manifests in my attitude to survivalism: I am somewhat prepared for things I can do something about, but that 2-mile tsunami (or stray bullet in the head) possibility, well, I don’t think about it (other than another reason to develop FAI; I am a small donor to the known organization).
There is another aspect to this; I notice that people who are good at explicit thinking under-utilize the rest of their mind, to the extent to not doing much unless they “figure it out logically”. There is much to be said for psychological normalcy, having IRL friends, hobbies, etc. This is an important part of winning.
Well, let’s talk about that for a moment. What are some reasonable things to do to prepare for disaster? I have thought about stockpiling water, iodine, vitamins, and stuff like that. Also about getting a second passport. I don’t have a keen grasp on what’s reasonable and what’s paranoia. I’m also not sure what kinds of disasters are worth living through—water seems like a no-brainer; the water supply could easily be interrupted and travel cut off in my city for a few days without anywhere near enough damage to collapse civilization. Vitamins, a little bit less so—if I actually have to worry about scurvy because the canned fruit has run out and there’s no way to travel 200 miles to the farms (I’m in California), maybe there isn’t too much worth living for.
http://www.amazon.com/Emergency-This-Book-Will-Save/dp/0060898771/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1293151319&sr=1-4
not the best reference content, but he works it out like a rational person, rather than give caches answers “from his army training”, like some other authors (however good they might be)
Agree on all fronts. Part of why I’m scared this week and not some other week is because my IRL friends have mostly checked out for Xmas.