1) things people just explain 2) things that make people mad and haughty when asked to explain, e.g. “read a 1st year textbook”
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Replying to @literalbanana
Slightly tangential but I think everything like this is a case of the brain compressing things over time to useful kernels. They feel very true but end up impossible to easily explain.
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Replying to @drethelin @literalbanana
#2 I always find amazing I guess the anger comes from cog dissonance: they know they know it ... and then they can't actually explain it. e.g. gun banner: we need to ban all XYZ me: what is an XYZ? gb: it's QRS me: no, it's not QRS = ABC. What is XYZ? gb: IT'S OBVIOUS !!!
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so in this example the gun banner has to either (a) introspect, try to define X, realize that they can't, then admit that they don't actually know what it is that they propose to ban, then have to question their quest to ban it, which then removes them from their tribe (REEE!) or
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(b) yell at the interlocutor for being so dumb, and that explaining XYZ is beneath them 9 out of 10 monkeys surveyed prefer to scream with rage over introspecting
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