“You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.” – Terrence, Roman writer 170-160 BC
The normalcy bias is so strong. People want to believe those in authority because that was part of their comfortable past. Kind of like a frog in the proverbial boiling water except the frog just died without comment. The frog didn’t voice his complaint about how he missed the temperate waters of his recent past.
“You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.” – Terrence, Roman writer 170-160 BC
The normalcy bias is so strong. People want to believe those in authority because that was part of their comfortable past. Kind of like a frog in the proverbial boiling water except the frog just died without comment. The frog didn’t voice his complaint about how he missed the temperate waters of his recent past.