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Normalcy Bias

Stone Choir

Stone Choir

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Hosts

Corey J. Mahler

coreyjmahler.com

@CoreyJMahler

    Woe

    aka Eschatologuy

    @treblewoe

      Tomorrow is not guaranteed. Much less so is tomorrow guaranteed to be the same as yesterday. And yet we, as human beings, have a tendency to think of the world as a sort of constant or given — we do not by nature adequately assess the likelihood of catastrophic or even merely significant change.

      This is not to say that we should be pessimists, alarmists, or paranoiacs; it is, however, to say that we should spend more time thinking about the information we encounter in our lives and what it means for us, for those entrusted to our care, and for our collective future. As men — specifically men, not just the generic sense — it is our duty to protect those whom God has entrusted to our care, and part of this is having an appropriate and accurate view of the world.

      In today’s episode, we discuss normalcy bias — what it is, why it matters, and how to counteract it. Everything, ultimately, is in God’s hands, but much work remains for us while it is still day.

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      0:00.0

      The

      0:07.0

      The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler.

      0:41.7

      And I'm still, whoa.

      0:44.7

      On today's Stone Choir, we're going to be discussing normalcy bias.

      0:49.6

      Basically, the assumption that whatever exists today is inevitable.

      0:53.7

      The things that you have are a natural consequence of you just existing.

      0:58.7

      And the inherent bias that we have mentally to assume that whatever we have is going to persist,

      1:04.4

      even though intellectually we know that's not the case,

      1:07.5

      there's still a psychological aspect of us making decisions and avoiding thinking about things based on,

      1:15.9

      yeah, that's just always going to be there.

      1:18.1

      So the reason we're talking about this today is that the reason we want to do it now rather than later is that as we look at the state of the world,

      1:26.6

      it's clear that there are some things that are

      1:28.3

      getting worse. We all, especially on the dissonant right, see that stuff. We know what it looks like.

      1:33.7

      We're going to talk about some of those details today. Before we get into it, for fathers,

      1:40.8

      there are always episodes that are maybe have stuff that's not necessarily for kids.

      1:45.7

      This one is really an episode that's specifically focused on the duty of a father and a husband and a man.

      1:51.8

      And so I don't think there's probably going to be a lot of stuff that kids really even need to hear.

      1:56.0

      And frankly, women don't really need to hear either.

      1:58.6

      I'm not saying, turn it off.

      1:59.7

      Just as we get into it,

      2:02.0

      we'll be discussing the nature of the duties of men as it relates to the state of the world,

      2:06.8

      because we have a particular vocation and a particular mentality as men that's different than women,

      ...

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