Agenda is set by Perception, not Reality

In fact, an alarm goes off at the crack of dawn.
Once again a catastrophe looms on the agenda of humanity. The numbers are clear. The calculation is precise.
Scientists are in a panic, but they speak calmly, because the truth does not shout, the truth provides evidence.
“He's coming,” they say.
“Stop it,” they say.
But the truth is people's least favorite thing.
Again, the first stop for a solution is politics.
But the political agenda is not about the disaster itself, but about its impact on the elections.
“Is now the time?”
“Let's wait a bit.”
“Will the voters take it?”
The threat is huge, but it does not attract the attention of decision-makers; they are all fixed in their seats.
Then they go back to their ordinary, everyday political agenda.
Days pass and the danger grows closer.
Just then something else explodes.
A scandal that affects politics.
The screens instantly turn there.
Disaster can wait, but not scandal.
But politics does not like this either.
He doesn't want the cameras on his scandals.
The agenda must change.
Because scandal is uncontrolled; it can influence the outcome of public elections.
The agenda needs to be redirected.
Politics needs to breathe.
It is at this point that they return to the great catastrophe that they have been turning away from for some time, that they have forgotten, but which in fact has never disappeared.
“Don't worry,” they say.
“We will solve this.”
The media steps in.
The public is persuaded.
The faces that will end the disaster are put on screen.
Experts, managers, saviors...
It keeps the story of rescue and savior.
Because it is no longer a question of the catastrophe itself, but of who will manage it.
Then the media stage opens with all its lights.
The studios are bright. Presenters smile.
The disaster is turned into a “pleasant topic of conversation”.
A little bit of science, a little bit of magazine, some other agendas.
“You are too pessimistic,” scientists are told.
“Be positive.”
The truth is softened, polished, even made funny because it doesn't fit the ratings.
Then the economic narrative begins.
“This disaster is actually a great opportunity,” they say.
There are mines.
There are rare elements.
Charts go up.
The stock market will soar.
Everyone will prosper.
Yes, indeed, someone's economy will improve.
Capital waits on the sidelines with its mouth watering.
Because for them, disasters are opportunities to be seized, not things to be stopped.
The end of humanity is just a small footnote on the balance sheet.
On the social media scene, there is a completely different crowd.
Hashtags pop up.
People are divided into two:
Those who see and those who choose not to see.
Truth is no longer a matter of evidence; it is a matter of sides.
A post is made, an outrage erupts, then a new agenda comes.
Even disaster disappears in the flow.
Human emotions are shattered in the meantime.
Some deny it because they don't want to be afraid.
Some make fun of it because seriousness is tiring.
Some shout but their voices are drowned in the noise.
Some know everything but do nothing because they are not heard.
Everyone seems to be right, everyone seems to be helpless.
And time passes.
The countdown continues.
The screens are still bright.
The words are still crowded.
The truth remains in the same place.
What is described here are selected scenes from a movie and their connotations.
But only if what is being described is familiar,
we are the actors in this movie.
Don't Look Up.