Don’t Look Up: A Metaphor for Western Civilization — Why Warnings Become Entertainment
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Author: Cristina Bellon, Roberta Grasselli, and Federico Pasquaré Mariotto
This episode explores Don’t Look Up: A Metaphor for Western Civilization by Cristina Bellon, Roberta Grasselli, and Federico Pasquaré Mariotto as a systems-level analysis of how media spectacle, political short-termism, techno-capitalist incentives, and science communication failures influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.
By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these…
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