One of the reasons I build an AI by combining many great minds is the hope that such conclusions are going to be cancelled out by proper reasoning by others. If a generally correct person has wrong ideas in a domain, then experts of that domain can erase those ideas. Purely battle of probabilities.
Similarly to death displacement, I could add "comparing mind". It must be a comforting thought "Everybody else is getting worse, and I am doing better than average. Feels great! Lets find out what else is going bad in the world". The problem here is they are trapped in their validation walls and continue to live in there as a perpetual prepper.
Fear becomes their identity and now they have to feel that to feel alive because they forgot other feelings.
