“I haven’t stopped thinking about this since”
That’s a meme terminating cliche
YOLO
OK it works
Well I’m just sayin
Even when i hear those things it makes me want to explore a situation deeper because such phrases are indicative of an ignorant, fatalistic attitude that begs to be illuminated
like your mom?
Getting up from the sofa, combining the “old man standing up”-noises with a vague “yes, yes, yes…” then walking away.
Inshallah. 🤷♂️
Something that I often say to myself to end contemplation paralysis is “What’s the worst that can happen?” or “What’s the worst case scenario?” If I’m debating trying something in the kitchen. “What’s the worst that can happen? I waste a few cups of flour and some yeast.”
I do that too, but I try to somehow end up at “we could all die”.
Same, which is why it doesn’t work for me.
On the contrary, that’s why it works very well for me.
“live and let live” is an ironic one we hear in vegan circles a lot.
Ah well, live and learn!
If we compiled a complete list of these, we would be horrified.
I kinda like ‘its all good’. Which I never took to mean it was good but ‘what you say when things go horribly wrong’ as a joking meaning,aka it’s the situation you can’t change now so just go with it until you can change things.
etymological classifications, as well as sociological ones, are quite the intrigue to me.
Humans have an innate desire to classify and codify things. For some reason.
You Oughta Look Out is just good advice in general.
“Living their best life” and “Speaking their truth” are recent and annoying examples of this.
The first is always used to dismiss self destructive or irresponsible behaviour. The second is often used to make a statement that is either false, manipulative, subjective or a combination. Their isn’t a personal truth, there is only truth.
Or just “thought-stoppers”.
Loaded language meant to quell criticism and dissent.
Loaded language meant to quell criticism and dissent.
Jesus Christ, Lemmy is way too anarchist for me to handle sometimes.
People just don’t want to think about stuff that doesn’t affect them or that they can’t change. Not everything is some kind of fascist conspiracy.
The loaded language having an “intention” doesn’t mean that intent is necessarily consciously realised by the speaker.
When I waa growing up, the f-slur for gay men was used pretty liberally without it having any related meaning to us. We didn’t hate or even dislike gays. It was just “something people said” and we picked up on it and used it.
Now I have to say that a lot of those people really did turn out to be homophobes, but as it was a rural village, the chances were high anyway.
The point I’m making is that speakers can spread the “intention” or connotation of a phrase without even ever having understood it’s meaning.
People just don’t want to think about stuff that doesn’t affect them or that they can’t change.
Yeah, I understand this, and that’s part of the problem. People think they can’t affect change, so they don’t want to think about change, so they say things like “we can’t change things, it is what it is” and then someone who still had hope (but looks up to the speaker) loses their hope of change, and also starts using said language.
Accepting defeat is certain defeat.
Ofc in a lot of conversations, it might not be political at all. Sometimes you can’t change things, as you have no agency. Like we used a lot of these semantic stop signs just as coping tools in the army. Digging a well into frozen ground, manually, in -20C… “it is what it is.”
But it is exactly loaded language. It’s just that not every use is malicious or political. They can be mundane and arbitrary criticisms that are quelled as well.
Edit also I do not identify with anarchism
It is what it is, ya know?
Que sera, sera.
Es lo que hay
C’est la vie…
Kaya nya.
Hakuna Matata
I feel the opposite, this website has too many right wing chuds annoyingly complaining that eveyone is a tankie or some shit… its fucking annoying give it a rest already jeez
They are just pointing out that these phrases are used for that, which is why they are recognized as “thought-terminating cliches”, it doesn’t mean they are always used in such a way. You can be aware of manipulative language without being an anarchist or commie.
i mean, they aren’t wrong, it’s not like it’s an invalid interpretation of it.
the more polite way of telling someone off than insults and slurs.
Looks like OP needs some thouhgt termination itself. It do be like that.
