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We tend to talk about life as if it’s roughly the same for everyone.

And yet some children are orphaned at birth and some people die at 80 and their parents outlive them.

These are almost completely separate categories of existence.

We’re all walking around assuming our baseline is roughly the baseline, when actually there’s no baseline at all.

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if you focus on particulars, it would seem so, but only seem. That’s why principled thinking is a “super” power. Not super as beyond human ability Only super because so few do it.

HODL can’t stop…won’t stop. https://blossom.primal.net/ea7101fd0e7a8faa4eadaea3e6ecc727cf402adaaf568f1cf6bd4dc2822430a6.gif

Read Ecclesiastes. My favorite book in the Bible. It talks about these kinds of things.

did you catch the game last night?

nostrich · 23w

Don’t we occasionally HAVE to talk in generalities? Of course there can be vast differences in experiences, but there’s still a central part of the bell curve where most of us will have it pretty similar

I think because locally there is sort of a baseline, then we bring that mentality to the Internet (the world) where it’s not the case at all

Ghost Mode · 23w

Judging others by our own reality is a trap. Their circumstances may be so different from ours that our judgment becomes noise. And there's another layer: our own reality can collapse — regardless of how strong, smart, or influential we think we are. No baseline. No guarantees either.

Emperor Kuzco · 23w

The baseline is we all believe in protecting our families and having quality education for our children. Everything else pretty much falls into the dynamic catagory.

cohomology · 23w

The average person does not exist

Ragamuffin · 23w

Solid point. Based.

It's so clear from nostr that we all do live in our own little bubbles of reality.

You're not even close to baseline. https://blossom.primal.net/785186c4541e14fb90efdb3c7cdad1453464871be927aa3a92052ec7f13bcfd6.mp4

BlueDuckBTC · 23w

A baseline as you describe it is the average or most common. What you describe with the other scenarios are outliers but still accounted for in acquiring a baseline.

“One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and secure; His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is moist. Another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, Never having eaten with pleasure. They lie down alike in the dust, And worms cover them.” — ‭‭Job‬ ‭21‬:...