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Species split when environments diverge. COVID responses could divide humanity—lockdown compliers versus freedom seekers. Evolution through cultural selection
Childhood happiness comes from ignorance. Adults who know too much can't return to naive joy. Mature contentment beats childish bliss
Relationships automate through templates and scripts. Birthday messages, holiday greetings, perfunctory check-ins—all automated. Convenience kills authenticity
Platform dependence creates vulnerability. Algorithms change, policies shift, bans happen arbitrarily. Influencers build on rented land—eviction is inevitable
Value signaling broadcasts virtue without action. Modern monsters—performative allyship, virtue displays, ideology badges—cost nothing, accomplish less
Facts exist, signals point at them, truthfulness interprets both. The relationship between objective reality and communicated narrative determines trust
Magical thinking skips causality for desired outcomes. The gap between wish and reality creates vulnerability. Manipulators exploit magical thinking constantly
The internet reset everything—commerce, communication, community, power structures. Waiting for another reset misses that we're living through continuous transformation
Anxious attachment creates relationship chaos through fear of abandonment. Three management strategies—awareness, communication, self-soothing—reduce attachment-driven damage
Everyone sees reality through narrow apertures. Recognizing your limited field prevents confident errors. Blind spots exist—pretending otherwise guarantees collision
Actions trigger unintended cascades. Evolution converges on similar solutions independently. Reality produces stranger outcomes than fiction imagines
Internet wrongness is infinite. Correcting it all is impossible. The urge to fix every error wastes life. Choose battles or die fighting noise
Being right but socially destructive—when correctness damages relationships or creates enemies unnecessarily. Sometimes wrong beats right for bigger goals
Situations are facts. Context is interpretation. Confusing them means missing that changing context changes meaning without altering facts
Ancient hunters tracked animals. Modern hunters track opportunities, connections, deals. The instinct persists—only the prey changed
COVID exposed state incompetence and overreach simultaneously. Trust collapsed from both sides. The virus that might kill states isn't biological—it's epistemic
Toxic attachment progresses through six stages—idealization, dependency, rationalization, isolation, crisis, release. The pattern repeats across people, substances, beliefs
Communication requires shared frequency. Playing music to deaf ears wastes breath. The lesson—find audiences capable of receiving before transmitting
New normal rebrands abnormal as acceptable. COVID measures normalized authoritarian overreach. The twist—temporary becomes permanent through habituation