Extinction-Level Event: So, You Couldn’t Change the World?
Back when lyricist Busta Rhymes made creative hip hop music that I appreciated, unlike whatever content he’s released within the past decade or so, I enjoyed his third studio album Extinction Level Event: The Final World Front (1998). It was a subjective work of beauty!
As an example of Busta Rhymes’ yesteryear resourcefulness, I invite you to consider the song “Extinction Level Event (The Song of Salvation)”, produced by the talented Nottz. Speaking over the chorus, the lyricist thusly makes proclamations and poses associated questions:
What y’all gon’ do? Where the fuck you gon’ go? (Hahahahaha)
Where the fuck y’all niggas gon’ run?
Where y’all niggas think y’all runnin’ to, son?
Bomb threat to the world!
Fuck going on with niggas out here?
We are now approaching the dawn of global emergency, motherfuckers, buh! (Buh!)
One could interpret the “bomb threat to the world” and “global emergency” lyrics literally (e.g., nuclear warfare) or figuratively (e.g., “The explosive results of the 2026 United States [U.S.] midterm elections were devastating”). Related to the song and album title, one source states:
An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis [and extinction-level event]) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth. Such an event is identified by a sharp fall in the diversity and abundance of multicellular organisms. It occurs when the rate of extinction increases with respect to the background extinction rate and the rate of speciation.
Estimates of the number of major mass extinctions in the last 540 million years range from as few as five to more than twenty. These differences stem from disagreement as to what constitutes a “major” extinction event, and the data chosen to measure past diversity. […] The term extinction-level event (ELE) has been used in media.
Given this background information, I now turn to a blog entry that I posted on November 3, 2026, Personal vs. Collective Ownership of Reactions: Have You Enjoyed Yourselves? It regarded the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, as I logically predicted in the late afternoon:
As matters stand at the time this blogpost is being drafted, it’s likely that Democrats will retake both chambers of Congress, though whether or not this will result in an end to U.S. involvement in genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and terrorism remains to be seen. I doubt it!
Republicans, conservatives, Make America Great Again, America First, right-wing, and other affiliated sociopolitical partisans (collectively “the Right”) apparently couldn’t change (to make different in some particular way or aspect) the world (the system of created things) yesterday.
This morning, I listened to what the Right’s political commentator, Nick Fuentes, said about the election results. As it pertains to this blogpost, Fuentes’ commentary included the following:
So, it’s not, “Eff [fuck] you, burn it down,” it’s not, “Hey, sorry you’re upset.” It’s like, “No, you’re taking the party in the wrong direction.” We empowered you to put America first, you’re corrupt, and you’re taking us down the wrong path, ideologically.
We voted for America First, you’re corrupt, and you’re putting America last. So, now, you must be wiped out! That’s the goal. It should be an extinction-level event! This is a giant middle finger. It’s a giant veto button. We’re just saying, “No.”
You tried it, you messed up. You said you were gonna deliver a golden age of America First, you have looted everything that wasn’t bolted down, and then you gave us the neocon agenda. So, you should be wiped out. It should be an extinction-level event!
Fuentes spoke of a figurative ELE. Now, one source reports, “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called the GOP’s stunning midterm election wipeout a “close to an extinction-level event for Republicans across the country” during a Wednesday [11/4/2026] morning press conference.”
It would appear as though the Right’s message, following a reported flip of both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, is to evoke a figurative ELE. With this in mind, I’ll note that on November 5, 2024, I stated in a blogpost entitled Let It Begin!:
I’m enthusiastic from my beliefs about the prospect of adventure in regard to election time. This is because I’m provided with an opportunity to practice REBT [Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy] in my personal and professional life unlike any other time of the year.
Now, as REBT was formed by the late psychologist Albert Ellis, who reportedly developed the first cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) psychotherapeutic modality in 1955, this blog entry is part of an ongoing series regarding his book, Ask Albert Ellis?: Straight Answers and Sound Advice from America’s Best-Known Psychologist.
REBT uses the ABC model to illustrate that when an undesirable Action occurs and you Believe an unhelpful narrative about the event, it’s your unfavorable assumption, not the occurrence itself, that causes an unpleasant Consequence. This is known as distress or disturbance.
Noteworthy, with virtually any undesirable Action that occurs, it’s your unfavorable Beliefs which cause unpleasant distress or disturbance (Consequence). Given this framing of self-distress and self-disturbance, it’s worth noting that one REBT source states (page 71):
REBT conceptualizes [distress] as healthy even though it is intense. Other approaches to therapy have as their goal the reduction of the intensity of negative emotions. They take this position because they do not keenly differentiate between healthy negative emotions (distress) and unhealthy negative emotions (disturbance).
Now, REBT keenly distinguishes between healthy distress and unhealthy disturbance. Healthy distress stems from your rational beliefs about a negative activating event [Action], whilst disturbance stems from your irrational beliefs about the same event.
Complete elimination of distress is highly unlikely in an impermanent and uncertain world, wherein people conceptually suffer, struggle, and battle with, or merely experience hardship. Still, individuals often make matters worse for themselves by disturbing about such instances.
In particular, there are four predominate irrational beliefs which people often use to distress or disturb themselves: global evaluations, low frustration tolerance, awfulizing, and demandingness. When contemplating these unproductive scripts, think of the acronym GLAD.
Additionally, from a psychological standpoint, people distress or disturb themselves using a Belief-Consequence (B-C) connection. Of course, this isn’t to suggest that in the context of the naturalistic or physical world there is no Action-Consequence (A-C) connection.
From an A-C view, nuclear warfare (Action) may result in a literal ELE (Consequence). However, it’s the Right’s unhelpful B-C viewpoint (Belief) about election results (Action) that causes a figurative ELE which results in negative, but unhealthy fear (Consequence).
The Right didn’t prevail in the elections (Action), they Believe, “Anyone not on the Right is worthless [G], and we can’t abide them [L], as they’re despicable [A], and they shouldn’t have flipped the Congress [D],” and thus causes their negative, but unhealthy fear (Consequence).
Addressing how people upset themselves with unhelpful attitudes, the ABC model incorporates Disputation of unproductive philosophies of life in order to explore Effective new beliefs. Whereas rigid beliefs cause self-disturbance, flexible beliefs result in an un-disturbed condition.
Additionally, REBT uses unconditional acceptance (UA) to relieve self-induced suffering. This is accomplished through use of unconditional self-acceptance (USA), unconditional other-acceptance (UOA), and unconditional life-acceptance (ULA).
Whereas the ABC model is a scientific approach to wellness, UA serves as a philosophical method for un-disturbing yourself. I view the former as an abortive approach to disturbance and the latter as a preventative method. Of course, not all REBT practitioners use the same style as I.
With my approach to REBT, I incorporate author Stephen Covey’s concepts regarding the circles of control, influence, and concern, as well as an area of no concern. UA maps onto the circle of control (USA), circle of influence (UOA), and circle of concern and area of no concern (ULA).
The circle of control encompasses only oneself, the circle of influence encapsulates elements which may be subject to one’s sway, the circle of concern engrosses most matters one can imagine, and the area of no concern relates to all content which isn’t yet imagined.
Regarding the Right’s circle of control and USA, they can acknowledge that they can’t always change the world. Concerning their circle of influence and UOA, the Right could admit that people who aren’t on the Right are merely fallible human beings, as are people of the Right.
Relating to the Right’s circle of concern and ULA, they can recognize that change is subjectively good or bad, depending on one’s perspective. Pertaining to the Right’s area of no concern, an imaginary realm in which no literal of figurative ELEs exist, that’s merely a delusion.
So, you couldn’t change the world, members of the Right? What can you change? You can change your reaction to a displeasing event through use of REBT! Regarding this worldview, Ellis stated (pages 35 and 36):
Once people feel frustrated but not panicked about unfortunate happenings, they then can use many problem-solving methods that [REBT] employs.
For example, after minimizing the upsetness, they can figure out solutions to environmental and other difficulties; obtain relevant information to help solve their problems; use cost-benefit analysis to discover what solutions are best; experimentally try alternate plans, to see which bring better results; and push, push, push in several other ways to change themselves and their external environment.
REBT shows people how to fight their disturbances in an exceptionally active-directive manner, and thereby encourages them to determinedly try to change the world.
Unlike Ellis, I don’t encourage people to “change the world” outside themselves. Rather, I invite people to “change the world”—the system of created things—inside of themselves. Thus, I offer this post to members of the Right. So, you couldn’t change the world? What can you change?
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Deric Hollings, LPC, LCSW
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