• IninewCrow
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    8 months ago

    Things, ideas, movements and people are only as important as people make them to be.

    If enough people believed that only wearing a sock over your genitals was acceptable … people would only wear a sock over their genitals.

    When you start looking at the world in this light and analyse what we decide on what is important and what is not … the world starts to look like a very weird place.

    As George Carlin put it …

    “I have as much authority as the Pope … I just don’t have as many people who believe it”

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      8 months ago

      And this is why learning history matters. It gives context for these friggin bizarre norms that accumulate. It allows us to realize when the norms are useful, we’re useful and are no longer needed, or we’re always just humans being weird.

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      That quote is top notch.

      Every time I see George Carlin mentioned on the web it always is a positive surprise.