Hold on to your butts, comrades. We're about to get a preview of 2050. I just checked the live data, and the area off the coast of South America that is the index water for ENSO is 9° F above average in places. This is going to be a wild year.
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For a lot of people, I do. I think many people like this are ultimately buried in their cultural context, and never had an event breaking them out of that mould / making them question what are for them basic assumptions about reality.
I think the vast majority of people are good and would care; it takes constant reinforcement to make them accept (and for many, barely, despite the image they may project) their constant participation in an absurd, evil system and to make them actively link their self-worth to it.
Also, at the end of the day, there are more and more people barely surviving and there are less and less people like your brother as time goes on; eventually we reach a critical threshold. And at that threshold there are a lot more of the former than the latter willing to fight.
I used to think this also, and then I saw huge numbers of people dying of COVID while still insisting it wasn't a real disease. Now I'm not so sure.
I saw the same testimonies; but huge numbers of people, I'm not sure. Even most of the antivaxx people ended up terrified asking (too late) for the vaccine while dying I suspect (at least I saw just as many testimonies like this than like the first ones).