'The primary evolutionary and social role of neurotypical cognition has been to maintain cohesion: to preserve group stability through shared narratives, emotional synchrony, and a collective sense of continuity.

These traits are not deficiencies on the upward slope of the overshoot curve. In an expanding civilisation, they are adaptive. They minimise anxiety, they reinforce cooperation, and sustain the cultural story required for large-scale coordination.

But the same traits that support stability can obscure disruption. Social-conformity bias, optimism bias, normalcy bias, and culturally reinforced worldviews (all well-documented psychological mechanisms) help keep a society together during its growth phase.

They also make it difficult to perceive structural risk, ecological overshoot, or the fragility of a paradigm that has begun to falter.

This is where the inversion emerges. The cognitive style that once served the maintenance of a growth-based civilisation becomes less suited to recognising the limits of that civilisation.'

Bravo! The climate change denial here on Stacker News is a classic example of this.

As is the tendency of 'Libertarians' to create a delusional echo chamber here where they steadfastly ignore the economic and power projection success of Chinese state capitalism.

Their group think need to maintain their delusional belief that free markets will always deliver maximal and ideal economic outcomes over rides the clearly visible reality that China has won the trade war and now holds the US military industrial combine to ransom over rare earths and multiple other essential supply chains.

Most people are sheep, (because the group and its stability is very important to human survival and security) including most Libertarians on Stacker News.

I will not win many zaps for stating what is apparent, but it does need to be said. Western civilisation is in decline and China is rising. The Libertarians have their heads in the sand.

Trump can see the writing on the wall and is implementing his version of state capitalism yet the Libertarians remain in their cosy if delusional Austrian economics echo chamber bunker.