when you drop something on the floor, and you feel like you know exactly where it would be based on the sound, but it actually ended up like 6 feet away from that spot
A combination of: necessity (social pressure) to have a take on the topic, topic being highly controversial, topic being very complex. A no-win scenario.
(inspired by some of the current events)
The process of changing the narrative of your identity.
For example from an ambitious professional to a free spirited musician. Or a Mormon to a progressive.
Reinventing personal brand exists, but it feels too corporate and externally focused.
Identity rewrite?
Tactic of founding a ludicrous conspiracy theory to inoculate against a related idea.
Eg:
-Space alien ufo narrative hides military R&D details
-Pizzagate protects Gaetz or Epstein network
-“5G causes COVID” softens insistence on retaining local copies of data
President Jame Garfield would entertain his guest by answering questions in Latin with one hand and Greek in the other - simultaneously . What is the name of that talent?
This is kinda the plot of the Culture novel Surface Detail, one of the best
So we will be calling this Roko’s Surface Detailing in honor of Roko’s basilisk and the novel. https://t.co/16qQa1xAG6
When someone is effusive about a relatively ineffective "band-aid" for a problem, which requires ~zero behavioral change . . . in lieu of a more comprehensive solution that would require at least some change but which would also be more effective, sustainable, cheaper, etc.
Holmeside, after Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ... “I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.” The left side is the figside. The middle is communism. See https://planplusonline.com/simplicity-side-complexity/…