The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 5 个月前"Thought-Terminating Cliches"lemmy.worldimagemessage-square154fedilinkarrow-up11.17Karrow-down122cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up11.14Karrow-down1image"Thought-Terminating Cliches"lemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 5 个月前message-square154fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareQueen HawlSera@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up86·5 个月前Thought Terminating Cliches can be useful because it is not productive to worry about things over which you have no power.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48arrow-down1·5 个月前Not YOLO, though, which is often used to stop thinking about the consequences of choosing to do something stupid.
minus-squareruneko@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·5 个月前I also often hear “It is what it is” to mean “someone made a bad decision and I’m not fighting it like I should.”
minus-squareGnome Kat@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 个月前I see it used oftentimes to dismiss systematic injustice aswell… “it is what it is”… which on an individual level feels like we have no control over but is infact something we have a lot of control over. A very malignant useage I feel
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 个月前Yes, the subject being dismissed is what makes it a good or bad thing. Is it something you have zero control over? Good thing. Otherwise, bad thing.
minus-squareDefault_Defect@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·5 个月前I associate it with “I suck as a manager, but I kiss ass hard enough to fail upward.”
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down2·5 个月前like if you encounter a bear in the woods. or a man.
minus-squarebionicjoey@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 个月前But does it shit in the woods? Or is that a different kind of cliche?
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 个月前if a bear falls in the woods, and nobody is there to witness it, does it make a sound?
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 个月前the question of our times.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 个月前It’s specifically good when you’re ruminating.
Thought Terminating Cliches can be useful because it is not productive to worry about things over which you have no power.
Not YOLO, though, which is often used to stop thinking about the consequences of choosing to do something stupid.
I also often hear “It is what it is” to mean “someone made a bad decision and I’m not fighting it like I should.”
Or the thing has already been done.
I see it used oftentimes to dismiss systematic injustice aswell… “it is what it is”…
which on an individual level feels like we have no control over but is infact something we have a lot of control over. A very malignant useage I feel
Yes, the subject being dismissed is what makes it a good or bad thing. Is it something you have zero control over? Good thing. Otherwise, bad thing.
I associate it with “I suck as a manager, but I kiss ass hard enough to fail upward.”
like if you encounter a bear in the woods. or a man.
But does it shit in the woods? Or is that a different kind of cliche?
if a bear falls in the woods, and nobody is there to witness it, does it make a sound?
And does it shit a pope?
the question of our times.
It’s specifically good when you’re ruminating.
That’s fair