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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Just handwaving all ancient cultures as "arrogant" seems to be a lot of projection from modern white guys The most common *emotional* stance people take when they're trying to imagine the larger outside world is consciousness that the world in here sucks all the time
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Which, to be fair,
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