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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 5469446" data-attributes="member: 73683">But that's the best part about paranoid predictions: they're either totally forgotten if they end up being irrelevant, or they end up coming true and then you can go and say "I TOTALLY TOLD YOU SO!"Basically, people have learned (consciously or not) that predicting unhappy change is basically foolproof. You can't lose. Either your portents of doom don't come true, no one remembers that you got it wrong, and you get to enjoy the happy times that follow, or your portents of doom do come true and you get undeservedly hailed as a keen observer (even though all you were doing was pointing out every possible sign - no matter how small or clouded - and seeing what sticks).The takeaway from this is that people who are aware of how this all works shouldn't give half a damn about portents of doom.</blockquote>