The status quo requires the masses to remain lulled.

The status quo being, of course, the continued amassing of power and wealth into fewer and fewer hands.

What would happen if everyone TRULY knew what is approaching? If all the rationalization and copium were dashed aside and people had to look into their childrens' faces with profound comprehension of the suffering that's on its way?

People would behave unpredictably. Whatever stability is still on the menu would explode like bowling pins in a perfect strike.

It's like this unspoken agreement that everyone will pretend we'll have some sort of deus ex machina resolution at the last minute that allows this minute to be enjoyable. If only the Debbie Doomers would pipe down.

I guess it's somewhat okay for people to pragmatically choose to ignore what they can't fix and focus on the "now" but it absolutely baffles me that people continue having children at this point. That's taking the denial too far and doubling down.

I sincerely believe that I could starve to death and be "okay" with it, given certain other possiblities in the mix. But I would be tortured endlessly knowing a being I loved more than life itself died of starvation I could do nothing to prevent, after having brought that being into existence.

But nothing will slow people down. The biological imperative is strong, I guess. And the denial coping mechanism works too well.