it is truly astounding how unembarrassed people are to have less basic curiosity about the world than a rural peasant from the 1400s
someone figured out how to eat tapioca and you won’t boil an egg
I don’t like the phrase ‘learned helplessness’ bc I think 90% of what we use it for right now isn’t learned helplessness at all, it’s learned refusal. Nobody actually thinks they are too stupid and incompetent to try boiling an egg or to click on the second page of google results, they just can’t be fucking bothered and have learned all kinds of cargo cult structural inequality talking points to justify it.
Ohhh schools don’t teach critical thinking any more ohhh my parents never taught me how to boil water ohhhhhh not everyone is privileged enough to have the time and energy to read two whole wikipedia articles I have no choice but to go through life with the accumulated knowledge of a dead beetle.
As you can see, the myth just started to grow, characters and ships and tropes being added one after the other, almost bizzarely without contradiction, until there was enough of shape to the whole thing for people to start posting fanfic about it on AO3. “Ice-pick Joe” has already become a meme tag.
It was hilarious in the beginning, but the way it’s developed within less than a day, kind of like it’s being willed into existence, is freaking me out a bit. We’re toying with powers beyond our comprehension. 😂😂😂
Of course, there could be an ulterior motive as well.
i still need to update my theme and bio and… well, everything LMAO but i might as well start trying to be active here again, even if it’s just reblogs XD
