Lies Smart People Believe To Feel Safe, Feel Right & Avoid Thinking
Your head is stuffed with borrowed furniture.
This isn't décor; it's the bars of your cage, keeping reality safely outside your padded cell.
You feel smart knowing star names, historical dates, scientific "facts." It’s a cozy consensus, a warm blanket woven from hearsay and intellectual hand-me-downs you never personally verified. You nod along, part of the big, smart club. This shared knowledge isn’t wisdom; it’s a social contract designed to keep the herd calm and predictable, preventing messy questions.
You mistake parroting approved narratives for genuine understanding, remaining blissfully unaware of the vast, terrifying ignorance beneath…
…congratulations on knowing nothing.
The Addiction to Answers
You crave answers like a junkie needs fix.
This addiction keeps you docile, swallowing pre-chewed realities because the raw, unknowable truth feels like broken glass in your gut.
Remember school? Shut up, listen, regurgitate. You learned compliance, not critical thought. Now you demand experts explain stars, quarks, god—anything to fill the void with authoritative noise, mistaking pronouncements for perception. This isn't a quest for truth; it's a desperate flight from it, a frantic papering over existential dread with intellectual wallpaper.
Each accepted answer reinforces the illusion, making the eventual, inevitable confrontation with stark reality that much harder…
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