I was sitting on my bed doing my video edits from the morning farm chores, and I happened to see something slightly out of focus as I panned by. It was a carton of eggs and I instantly remembered it was still there. I’d forgotten to bring it up, which is not uncommon, but this time, it was resting rather delicately on something that could be knocked over by a passing cat.
So it’s kind of important that I go and get it. I had just finished my editing, and I was about to put my foot on the ground and go down when I thought to myself: Naaa. I’ll do it later. That’s a small task but still effort and I convinced myself it would be fine, with backup assurance that even if it were not fine and eggs were broken or stolen by cats who have come to love the taste of raw eggs, it wasn’t a big deal we have way too many eggs already.
We’re not currently doing much with our surplus. Apparently there are “plans” to sell eggs, but it seems other people in the house also suffer from the “Naaa. I’ll do it later” problem. That should not be comforting but somehow it is.
Nothing is as bad if you’re not the only one doing it. That’s what crown mentality is all about. At a certain point, our brains switch to a weird justification model that thinks; is be foolish not to steal a TV if everyone is stealing a TV. It’s not the same as jumping off a cliff. I need to be told to do that, but if everyone was, I’d probably not do it, but I would definitely make some joke about people being lemmings.
I sincerely doubt that I would ever participate in crowd mentality crimes. As soon as it looks like a riot is starting I’m probably watching it on TV.