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Maybe the distraction is voluntary because for higher cognitive individuals, like many here, they realize there's nothing they can do about it.

How is that? Strikes and collective action actually do work.

Don't forget about the false sense of security science fiction gives us about our civilizations ability to survive calamity, or spread beyond earth. And also the false sense of power super-spy fiction gives us over government security forces (and likewise a false sense of how gov sec forces function). I think both have a real distorting effect on our intuitions about the world.

> More dystopian stories to distract us from the real dystopia swallowing us

Distract from -- or remind of / allude to?

Not surprising that capitalism commodifies capitalism anxiety.

Our healthcare system has very little to do with capitalism or free markets.

bread and circuses