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i'm going out on a limb to say the comment wasn't about the word "tribe" or the merit of a tribe, it was about how people mimic each other without thinking. if
by pasquinelli 5y ago
i'm going out on a limb to say the comment wasn't about the word "tribe" or the merit of a tribe, it was about how people mimic each other without thinking. if what you think of as reality is determined by the group it will be in the million ways you never would've thought about.
this is why people talk so often in tropes: the thoughts they're expressing aren't their own, they're just repeating tropes they hear. this way of talking of your tribe is just an example trope.
- Bancakes 5y agoDo most people function like that in your honest opinion? Do you?
- tomlockwood 5y agoCouldn't have said it better myself!
- pessimizer 5y agoWhat's the operational difference between that and any language acquisition? If your implication is that we're entirely constructed from our influences and that therefore no part of us is original, it's very silly, very linear thinking. We're each unique assemblages of influences, and most of our utterances of any significant length are unique. edit: neither of our comments have ever been written before.