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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Replying to @arthur_affect
I mentioned this in another thread, another classic is the question of geo-/helio-centrism, typically revolving around Ptolemy and Copernicus, sometimes with reference to Galileo and The Church And there's kinda three equally useful answers to what goes around what
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Replying to @CuddlePotato @arthur_affect
Not sure how this fits into the discussion, but I started to really HATE how much GLEE that the writers of science shows love to point out that we aren't the center of the universe. They pile on discovery after discovery and invite us to contemplate how arrogant we've been.
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Replying to @Tuplet @CuddlePotato
It does feel like it comes from a place of unnecessary contempt for normies after a while doesn't it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Tuplet
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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Replying to @CuddlePotato @Tuplet
Yeah when the ancients - Western or Eastern - talk about our little mortal world in the context of the cosmos it's usually negative Everyone seems to hold the opinion that everything sucks down here and all the good stuff is up there, or elsewhere
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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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"What do you think when you think about all the other places that could exist beyond the world we know" "I think about a place where my boss isn't on my fucking jock all the time about shit that isn't my goddamn fault And where I don't itch so much"
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