Comment by brookst

I’ll charitable assume you really just don’t understand.

Look at it this way: suppose someone says “OMG this morning a massive, free floating fusion reactor appeared in the sky; pouring terawatts of power into the earth’s atmosphere! We have to do something about this crisis!”

It’s true that “we say the same thing yesterday, and the day before, and forever” falls short of a clear explanation of why it’s not a big deal and is in fact a critical part of the large systems we all live in.

But it’s a reasonable shorthand for “if you really think this time is different and IS a crisis, you need to say more”