The Peculiar Power of Denial
We'd rather risk societal collapse than face the sacrifices and challenges of revolutionizing our unsustainably neofeudal economy and broken gears of governance.
Denial is scale-invariant and universal--we've all experienced in some way or another. By scale-invariant, we mean the individual, household, enterprise, city, state and empire all experience denial.
Denial has several signature characteristics:
1. The more profound and consequential the issue, the more stubborn our denial. When a minor cut reddens, we do…
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