People often will refuse to acknowledge actual danger until it is too late. Possibly being unfortunate or contrary in exit route selection or having particular requirements like elderly relatives. The route you selected is blocked and alternate exits become closed off in an order that is against you and you are left with having to wait for it to engulf you. Horrifying, if you are with your family it is impossible to imagine how horrifying.
However meticulous you are about washing recycling still enough organic material might be left for a fly to consider it a viable site to lay eggs. Also washing can sometimes work against you because putting things in the recycling wet can allow a licour to form over time that will smell as bad as anything you have smelled. Wash and disinfect the bins and in the hottest months put them outside. Do you note there is a limited age distribution in the fly populations you see, they are all young adults and all clean and shiny as if they have never been outside.
For me it is in the hottest months and its in the recycling. The recycling bins are not as contained as the general bins, residual food is in the recycling from improper washing. Lone fly in through an open door and lays eggs in recycling, in normal times process from egg hatching to maggots to flies takes longer than the recycling collection period so it is all thrown out. Under very hot conditions it is accelerated and you wake up to 10 newly hatched flies on the inside of your garden door every morning. Solution is when it's very hot put the recycling out more often even if it attracts foxes. This is very specific to me but something similar may be happening for you, I don't think flies squeeze through small gaps.
The media ensures anyone with a backbone does not attain any sort of high office, the people that are left say yes or say nothing, which is no kind of morality at all. No fertiliser is being put down, it is just on to the next wasteland. But now it is seen how easily neo-democracies capitulate and the next iteration of the administration might have intelligence as well as contrived popularity.
What can be more anthropomorphised than generative AI models, they are trained only on the outpourings of humanity. You are asking to describe orange juice without saying its quite orangey.
You still have complete control you just start to believe that you might actually do the things that are possible. So for example you don't jump out of a window thinking you can fly but you do tell Wendy her eyes are like a cool breeze on a hot day and whenever you reach out you want her to be there. Then you sleep and forget it all and wake up sober and have flashbacks all day about what you said to your ex teacher that you just happened to bump into last night. You have those flashbacks for the rest of your life.
A market for any old celebrity garbage, who could have imagined.