Cohen and Stewart coined the term "lies to children" for this concept in their 1994 book The Collapse of Chaos, it got popularized by Terry Pratchett when he collaborated with them on The Science of Discworld in 1999 It's a good concept, only a knob would get butthurt over it https://twitter.com/olivertraldi/status/1290043101642358789 …
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Like I'm sorry I haven't contemplated the vastness of the cosmos in a while but I have bills to pay
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I do think about the possibly-fake-deepness of this old xkcd joke pretty often (Observing the universe at this scale and staying there isn't MORE valid than any other perspective but it isn't LESS valid either)https://xkcd.com/271/
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Interestingly (to me) in the intro to Ptolemy's Almagest, when he's talking about the geocentric assumption he says "also it makes sense for the earth to be in the middle cuz it's the worst. Imagine us being part or or even above the heavens, that's weird"
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"fire and air go up, water and earth go down, so we're clearly at the bottom where all the mud is, staring up at the beautiful fires of the heavens" Same astronomical perspective, very different moral one
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