Surprisingly often, people refuse to acknowledge information – especially when the stakes are high. But can reality be permanently blocked out?
With all the complaining about digital overload, one thing shouldn’t be forgotten: even in analog mailboxes, known as mailboxes, serious challenges often lurk. Keyword: government mail. From the outside you can see from the envelopes that their contents will cause fear and terror. Either because they contain bad news (fee notices!) or written administrative procedures (forms!) that plunge you into the deepest feelings of powerlessness. Human beings always strive for knowledge and are creatures in which an instinctive curiosity burns, argued the great psychologist Abraham Maslow.