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Disaster/collapse/conspiracy fantasies are a product of those who were impacted by something that caused deep hurt in their life.

You imagine the abstraction of your pain via these fantasies. However simple it was, or serious, you recollect through the conduit of the world ending, for that’s what it felt like to you.

Very odd, too human.




I'm the first in four generations of my family to not (yet) experience war firsthand, so at least in my case it's more about being aware how prone to conflict the area I live in is.


> conspiracy fantasies

Stanislav Petrov




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