We should go with the flow, but, regrettably, we do not like change.
We fight it.
We are frightened by it.
We want to believe it will not happen to us in the future.
We want to believe in a world at ...
...I initially wanted to put off writing about this fallacy, but I cannot avoid it.
Psychologists use this term to describe the decision to ignore dangerous or negative information by “burying” one’s head in the sand—like an ostrich—and hoping it would disappear.
The ostrich effect is one of the most ominous of fallacies, since it is the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
But making errors about the inside of our head does not change what is inside it.
Everything is in motion. Change is the law. Stability and consistency are illusions. When we want things to stay the same, we will always end up playing catch-up.
