*fires up the twitter* There is an entire shadow world hiding in plain sight. Learning about this I think was more mind-boggling than learning about the scale and scope of the universe. It’s like social dark matter. Most people don’t see it and many never will
This is less “your father is secretly a government spy” and more “most of what you think you know about your father is likely coloured by the father-child relationship + most people who tell you things about him mostly filter their thoughts with your relationship in mind”
“No one would listen”
consider also how people were joking-not-joking about Harvey Weinstein for decades
This is one of those “if you think you’ve wrapped your head around the full magnitude of what’s going on, you’re wrong” type things
consider also how people were joking-not-joking about Harvey Weinstein for decades
This is one of those “if you think you’ve wrapped your head around the full magnitude of what’s going on, you’re wrong” type things
Another way of trying to think about this: a lot of wild Black Swan type events are only shocking and surprising because of the false expectations people have about reality. The “dark matter” is everything between those expectations and reality. It’s dark because we don’t see it
If reality seems unrealistic, it’s because you were holding on to a false idea about how reality is.
Reality isn’t unrealistic; your expectations were
Reality isn’t unrealistic, your expectations were
Reality isn’t unrealistic, your expectations were
Reality isn’t unrealisti
Reality isn’t unrealistic; your expectations were
Reality isn’t unrealistic, your expectations were
Reality isn’t unrealistic, your expectations were
Reality isn’t unrealisti
All master persuaders know this
“Divorced from reality” is an interesting and revealing choice of phrase. It’s not “true reality” since that’s literally whatever happens. It’s “expected reality”. It’s discovering that the map is not the territory
