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So, we get ''infected'' with the idea of [[apocalypse]] ''by each other''. Our legume-buying habits ''are not independent after all''. They are all formed out of a collective consensus about the ''non-imminence'' of the second coming. While each person’s threshold for precautionary lentil purchase in the event of apocalypse will differ, across the group, news of the unchecked spread of [[coronavirus]] will bring each person closer to that threshold and will push some of them over it. | So, we get ''infected'' with the idea of [[apocalypse]] ''by each other''. Our legume-buying habits ''are not independent after all''. They are all formed out of a collective consensus about the ''non-imminence'' of the second coming. While each person’s threshold for precautionary lentil purchase in the event of apocalypse will differ, across the group, news of the unchecked spread of [[coronavirus]] will bring each person closer to that threshold and will push some of them over it. | ||
Back to the 95% normals. As they walk past the tinned goods shelf, it only takes a small proportion of them to decide ''this'' is the week to pick up an extra tin to blow the | Back to the 95% normals. As they walk past the tinned goods shelf, it only takes a small proportion of them to decide ''this'' is the week to pick up an extra tin to blow the grocer’s expectations out the window. Let’s say, unnerved by all this elbow-touching and obsessive-compulsive hand-washing carry on, just 5 of the 95% decide to buy an extra tin. As the hippies, vegans & health nuts who buy lentils for fun are ''also'' buying their regular quota, the supermarket’s lentil supply quickly diminishes. | ||
Then an unexpected second order of dependence emerges. For some of the 95% — who have not yet crossed the threshold for precautionary lentil purchase — then ''notice'' that the lentil shelf is nearly empty. They reconsider their apprehension of the apocalypse. They move closer to their threshold. Some cross it. Those who do collect a tin. The shelf is cleaned out. | Then an unexpected second order of dependence emerges. For some of the 95% — who have not yet crossed the threshold for precautionary lentil purchase — then ''notice'' that the lentil shelf is nearly empty. They reconsider their apprehension of the apocalypse. They move closer to their threshold. Some cross it. Those who do collect a tin. The shelf is cleaned out. | ||