Debriefing One's Encounters with the Unthinkable

"Every one of us is a survivor of multiple encounters with the Unthinkable" Why does that read fresh and surprising? Why does it jolt us into shifting perspective (aka reframing)? Because we don't normally consider it. We're blind, subconscious, essentially asleep to this. Per dream logic, we perpetually find ourselves caught, Groundhog Day-style, in a fraught game where we MUST NOT TOUCH THE WALL, because it's REALLY REALLY HORRIBLE IF YOU TOUCH THE WALL, yet we touch the wall every single time (only scoring points by delaying the inevitable). We then hit "replay" so compulsively that we never hover thoughtfully above for a broader view. Not even for a millisecond. We're too busy stoking our petrification about the dreaded wall. Let's consider two especially horrific and extreme examples of apocalyptic events that would have made any sane person pull the world's emergency brake: When Russian invaded Ukraine and began perpetrating all those bombings and barbarities, it was expected…