I have a friend who just doesn't want to listen to anything contrary to the official narrative anymore. In her case it is partly because her partner has gone fully for the "big conspiracy" idea but he is a somewhat bullying man who always needs to be right, and does not discuss but mostly just dictates his opinions, and seems that this managed to get my friend go defensive against the whole idea from the getgo (he also at least used to be pretty full-on communist - any idea he latches on is the only truth to him from then on, until he maybe finds something else).
But the other part is something I think I see with lots of other normies. They are scared, and not so much of the disease, the big fear is that the world they grew up in, the news they have trusted, pretty much everything they have trusted, the old normalcy never was the safety they thought it was. They don't want to learn that you can't go back to that. They want to trust their government, they want to trust their doctors, they want to trust the news, because that world feels safe.
So they are in denial, hard. And maybe the more they can maybe see the cracks in the facade, the harder they will deny. Because the reality, the real reality, scares the shit out of them. Perhaps because they think they would not be able to do anything about it, and so prefer to try and ignore it because it is still mostly hiding, not jackbooting on the street in front of their home yet. I suppose they hope - like a child hiding under the blankets - that if they tell themselves hard enough that there is nothing there, there really won't be, and when they get up tomorrow or in a few weeks or months from now, everything is going to like it was before and they can just continue their old safe lives.
I have a friend who just doesn't want to listen to anything contrary to the official narrative anymore. In her case it is partly because her partner has gone fully for the "big conspiracy" idea but he is a somewhat bullying man who always needs to be right, and does not discuss but mostly just dictates his opinions, and seems that this managed to get my friend go defensive against the whole idea from the getgo (he also at least used to be pretty full-on communist - any idea he latches on is the only truth to him from then on, until he maybe finds something else).
But the other part is something I think I see with lots of other normies. They are scared, and not so much of the disease, the big fear is that the world they grew up in, the news they have trusted, pretty much everything they have trusted, the old normalcy never was the safety they thought it was. They don't want to learn that you can't go back to that. They want to trust their government, they want to trust their doctors, they want to trust the news, because that world feels safe.
So they are in denial, hard. And maybe the more they can maybe see the cracks in the facade, the harder they will deny. Because the reality, the real reality, scares the shit out of them. Perhaps because they think they would not be able to do anything about it, and so prefer to try and ignore it because it is still mostly hiding, not jackbooting on the street in front of their home yet. I suppose they hope - like a child hiding under the blankets - that if they tell themselves hard enough that there is nothing there, there really won't be, and when they get up tomorrow or in a few weeks or months from now, everything is going to like it was before and they can just continue their old safe lives.
We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto.