Oddbean new post about login | logout that's the thing you see the weak need to follow the strong, or society ends up in a place where only the strong can escape from the meatgrinder strong people don't bow down to kings
also, if you were lucky enough to have someone show up and give you a credible warning that the village you lived in was going to fall into the ground because of a giant cavity and impending seismic effect, are you leaving? if your whole household was provided this information, and nobody had any reason to doubt it, will you stay for the sake of your neighbours comfort and inevitably die or are you gonna go and not turn back like Lot?
the enemy (yes, THAT enemy) has ground everyone down so hard now that they are resigned to his victory over them the enemy cannot spread his violence everywhere, it is exemplary, so, yes, in most cases you are gonna be fine but the longer he has the more examples that will be made and the lower your chances of avoiding it many people could see what was coming from Hitler, but they decided against the clear danger to stay, and next thing you know they are being herded into trains