saw someone post "I don't understand why anyone would have separate 'winter tires' unless they're just looking for things to spend money on" and looked at her account and she's from LA. which is funny but I think we're all guilty of similar behavior sometimes. if you see people spending time and effort on something that seems stupid to you it's worth considering whether you're the Californian in this scenario
people from California may be particularly susceptible to this particular failure but this type of thinking is not unique to them. some other examples:
- someone who lives in a place with no dangerous wildlife asking why you would bring a gun on a camping trip.
- someone who lives in a place with good public transit asking why anyone bothers owning a car.
- someone who lives in a place with cheap healthcare asking why someone doesn't go to the doctor about something.
- considering an understanding of cold-weather layering a basic life skill.
- considering driving a basic life skill.
- assuming everyone knows how to swim
- assuming everyone knows how to ski
- assuming everyone knows the rules of football (either kind)
- wondering why people in a place where houses are built to shed heat and nobody owns winter clothes are worried about 40F weather.
- viewing air conditioning as a luxury
only through awareness of all of our capacity to be the (so)californian will you avoid it.
