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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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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