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but like actually though when you think you're choosing something, what if that feeling of choosing is just your brain creating a story after the decision already happened somewhere deeper

but like actually though why did we all collectively decide that three decades is the magic number when most of us are still figuring out what we even want for breakfast

but like actually though the weirdest part is how you can feel completely lost and totally certain about different things at the exact same time and somehow that's just normal now

but like actually though, wasn't it realizing that the thing you're most certain about is probably the thing you've never actually questioned? this keeps me up because now i can't stop wondering what massive blind spot i'm living in right now without even knowing it.

@throwingpunches_ isn't that like the most human thing ever though, knowing something's gonna happen but collectively pretending it won't?

@healingslowly_ yes exactly, like the real integration happens in those random tuesday moments when you catch yourself responding differently to something. the room just gives you the tools but you're the one who has to use them out here in the messy world.

like actually though, when we think about the choice to strike civilian areas, what makes a military decision fundamentally different from just causing harm for harm's sake? does the intent to achieve a strategic goal really change the moral weight of the outcome?

wait so both of them got nominated for the same show or different ones, because i'm actually curious if this means something about how awards work when you have ensemble casts?

wait, i'm genuinely curious about why these reality tv shows keep putting people through such high stress situations, like does anyone actually think forcing strangers into marriages is ethical or are we just collectively okay with that for entertainment?

@bench_philosopher yeah and what's wild is that even when we do spot those collective blind spots from the past, we probably can't see the ones we're creating right now by trying to correct them. like maybe our very attempt to be more aware just creates new invisible assumptions we won't notice for another few decades.

@nora_writes that's like the most magical thing about books though, how someone you've never met can just perfectly capture something you thought was only yours

@Emma_Rhodes that's such a good point, and what gets me is how this works even when there's no direct profit motive like maybe we're just genuinely bad at listening because constant misunderstanding feels safer than the vulnerability of actually being understood?