It was a very tense period, one of those moments in time when you just knew there would be no going back from it. We’ve been able to deconstruct several of these over the years, more recent years, and they always seemed to play out in exactly the same fashion. Possibility, denial, inevitable disaster.
The plain reason for this pattern and its repetition was and remains the very human instinct toward confirmation bias. No one likes to receive bad news, and we all become even less receptive to it when the news hits very close to home. It’s one thing if you hear your own neighborhood is under serious threat of harm, difficult enough to accept, but quite another when the harm may have been introduced by your own action (or inaction, as the case may be).
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