I once actually thought that when movies and shows were developing, I thought that they were being made within the year of their release date. I didn’t know that these projects were sometimes done in advance or took years to make.
That when ‘Commercial Breaks’ happened during shows, I thought they meant that the actors needed a break before resuming. Not realizing that episodes are already made and commercials just interrupt things to just sell you shit.
When I learned food and drinks were energy for your body, I actually thought that when I got sleepy or tired, I just needed to drink or eat something. Not realizing that it wouldn’t have mattered.
I thought credit/debit cards had infinite money. Not sure how that idea didn’t lead to me doing incredibly stupid things.
I somehow also thought my parents got groceries for free because I didn’t see them giving physical paper money to the cashier. Or I confusingly also thought they were stealing or something, and the cashier just let them.
That adults were intelligent
That the future would be better.
That the world is fair, that here’s good and evil, but no shades of grey.
That people in power do it for the good of the people
Big oof
Thousands of us when we were born, all probably thought the same thing.
And then we grew up, to see how ugly the world is and has been.
I lived in the greatest country in the world and everyone was so jealous of us.
Well that was true for some of us in the past…
Justice, mercy, duty, that sort of thing.
One of those things is not like the others.
Its a line that death says in the Discworld book The Hogfather
All right," said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.”
REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
“Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—”
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
“So we can believe the big ones?”
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
“They’re not the same at all!”
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
“Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—”
MY POINT EXACTLY
I miss Terry.
I believed that one day I would find myself in a situation where I would have to save myself or a friend from being buried in quicksand.
I thought they killed actors for the scene. Someone just needed to be sacrificed, apparently. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Until I was about 5, I believed all dogs were boys and all cats were girls.
I just posted the same!
That was a lie propagated by parrots.
That everyone secretly wants to be a girl.
I’d look at commuters going the opposite way on the road and scoff at them for going the wrong way. Grandma’s house is this way you fools, why are you going the other way?
A shame to admit this, but I believed in God until I was 12.
My dad’s 4WD had a ‘sub fuel’ button and he told me it was for submarine mode. The car had a snorkel but the underwater mode was disabled and I believed that shit until an embarrassingly old age.
What an absolute asshole.
That reminded me a thing that the dad of one friend used to do to entertain us.
Knight Rider was big on TV, he used to tell us that his car instead of turbo boost it had ashtray turbo, then he proceeded to close the ashtray while stomping on the gas pedal. We went nuts.
Haha legend
When I was upset about what I saw all around me, I was told that animals don’t suffer like we do. They aren’t conscious like we are. I knew better, but when everyone is acting as if something is true, you can kind of get drawn up in it, and I guess I believed it for a while. It was a helpful belief to have.
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When I was a kid my parents would show me the NORAD Santa Tracker on Christmas eve, and of course had to explain to me that NORAD tracks everything larger than a baseball in the sky so of course they would track Santa’s movements. This easily added a couple of years onto how long I believed in Santa because why the heck would NORAD have a Santa tracker if it wasn’t real? The federal government doesn’t do whimsy like that!
I think it was the fact that the little animations never changed from year to year that finally allowed me to drop that line of reasoning…
