We're conditioned through evolution to see threats everywhere. It takes immense bravery and confidence in your ability to handle threats to allow yourself to enjoy life rather than constantly struggle and stress.
For many, unhappiness is a comfort blanket. If things are always terrible, at least life is no longer uncertain.
People have consistently ranked public speaking as a greater fear than death.
This seems weird until you consider that public speaking carries a risk of ostracization. Which in primitive tribal life could mean banishment. Banishment meant uncertainty, most likely unpleasant death in the wilderness.
Viewed this way, public speaking is actually entangled with a risk of uncertain death, which is scarier to the human mind than direct death.
Psychologically, religion (and conspiracy theories) have been theorised as a way to process uncertain anxieties into focused fears.
Humans hate uncertainty. So they prefer the focused fear of hell and infinite punushment to the uncertainty of "we exist for no reason".
They prefer the focused fear of "it was an inside job" than the uncertainty of 1500 years of geopolitical messiness and glaring gaps in our ability to defend against terrorist atrocities.
Both substitute a complex, hard to understand chaos with a set of concrete axioms. We're pattern-seeking animals. We prefer bad answers to none.
It's why people (and leftists now) often prefer authoritarian chaos to liberty and freedom. Because at least Antifa gives you answers. It doesn't matter if they're right or not to someone living in existential terror.
Yep I don't understand why leftists choose to be angry all the time, making up problems about America when there is so much positives to be enjoyed.
It takes courage to be happy.
We're conditioned through evolution to see threats everywhere. It takes immense bravery and confidence in your ability to handle threats to allow yourself to enjoy life rather than constantly struggle and stress.
For many, unhappiness is a comfort blanket. If things are always terrible, at least life is no longer uncertain.
People have consistently ranked public speaking as a greater fear than death.
This seems weird until you consider that public speaking carries a risk of ostracization. Which in primitive tribal life could mean banishment. Banishment meant uncertainty, most likely unpleasant death in the wilderness.
Viewed this way, public speaking is actually entangled with a risk of uncertain death, which is scarier to the human mind than direct death.
Psychologically, religion (and conspiracy theories) have been theorised as a way to process uncertain anxieties into focused fears.
Humans hate uncertainty. So they prefer the focused fear of hell and infinite punushment to the uncertainty of "we exist for no reason".
They prefer the focused fear of "it was an inside job" than the uncertainty of 1500 years of geopolitical messiness and glaring gaps in our ability to defend against terrorist atrocities.
Both substitute a complex, hard to understand chaos with a set of concrete axioms. We're pattern-seeking animals. We prefer bad answers to none.
It's why people (and leftists now) often prefer authoritarian chaos to liberty and freedom. Because at least Antifa gives you answers. It doesn't matter if they're right or not to someone living in existential terror.