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walkitoutI _had_ been trying to figure out the nonsense with travel and so forth, but abandoned it because it was So Much Nonsense. But in the course of reading about why people buy more food than they will get around to eating, I realized the answer to the food question actually helps with the travel thing and a lot else that is going on right now.
People are trying to buy houses, and travel and whatever else because they are actually very convinced that they won’t be available later. This does NOT make sense! But it is a powerful explanation and has the benefit of _actually being what people had been telling me_. I dismissed it, because it does NOT make sense! But, people believe it, and that is driving their actions.
I grew up with apocalyptic thinking, so I have a lot more practice at this, so while I still do some, I generally believe it to be kooky and basically wrong. It just hadn’t occurred to me that other people would engage in it — people _far_ more sane than I will ever be — with total sincerity.
Yikes.
https://www.11alive.com/article/weather/psychology-behind-rushing-to-the-store-before-a-storm/85-52262ac6-0644-4daf-a21d-1daf478e3ee7
You know, you can buy ultrapasteurized tetrapaks of milk. And eggs keep on the counter just fine. We all these buying frenzies “french toast emergencies” because that seems to be the list of what people buy (bread, eggs and milk). We mostly don’t participate, because my normal stock levels are bonkers. Altho given that the main intervention offered is See What You Already Have, who really knows what is going on out there. But the idea that people seeing what bad things can happen through personal experience or by seeing it happen to others, and then trying to avoid those bad things through preparation IS kind of what we _want_, right?
People are trying to buy houses, and travel and whatever else because they are actually very convinced that they won’t be available later. This does NOT make sense! But it is a powerful explanation and has the benefit of _actually being what people had been telling me_. I dismissed it, because it does NOT make sense! But, people believe it, and that is driving their actions.
I grew up with apocalyptic thinking, so I have a lot more practice at this, so while I still do some, I generally believe it to be kooky and basically wrong. It just hadn’t occurred to me that other people would engage in it — people _far_ more sane than I will ever be — with total sincerity.
Yikes.
https://www.11alive.com/article/weather/psychology-behind-rushing-to-the-store-before-a-storm/85-52262ac6-0644-4daf-a21d-1daf478e3ee7
You know, you can buy ultrapasteurized tetrapaks of milk. And eggs keep on the counter just fine. We all these buying frenzies “french toast emergencies” because that seems to be the list of what people buy (bread, eggs and milk). We mostly don’t participate, because my normal stock levels are bonkers. Altho given that the main intervention offered is See What You Already Have, who really knows what is going on out there. But the idea that people seeing what bad things can happen through personal experience or by seeing it happen to others, and then trying to avoid those bad things through preparation IS kind of what we _want_, right?