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How not to panic about explosions near Vilnius and drones in Poland?

DELFI

Lithuania

Wednesday, September 10


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1. We have very little information about what happened near Vilnius (and why exactly Russian drones flew into Poland) – and it will not be otherwise. When, and if, we find out a convincing version of what caused those explosions in the gas tanks, this news will be completely irrelevant. As will additional information about drones over Poland.

We can't know everything, but our psyche resists this: evolutionarily, our brains have always tried to understand what exactly happened - so that they can protect us. And if they don't have the information, they take what is available and create and construct based on that.

That's where all the conspiracy theories, the derivations of couch analysts, the delusions of futurologists and doomsday seers, and other informational noise come from.

1. For news about the situation – listen to professionals who teach calmly and clearly, without drama. I am biased, but here is the columnist Vaidas Saldžiūnas who writes so well that there is nothing to cling to: www.delfi.lt/a/120146864.

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