go away. you are a weirdo if you are reading this.
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You could also both be hallucinating.
Collective delusion/hallucination is a real thing. Often reinforced when like minded individuals form a tight social group that serves to isolate them from anyone who might challenged the hallucination, and who seek to reinforce it in each other.
Human beings are prone to mass hysteria because we are social animals, and our 'truth' about the world is largely a construct of our agreement with our peers. Psychological illness and behaviors, like anorexia, paranoia, etc. are transmissible psychological conditions. They are ideas in your head that eventually become the truth of your reality as they are reinforced by the ideas and realities of the people around you, and part of the drive to do that is for people to have their ideals/realities validated by others.
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You are being revisionist.
Lead was completely banned from gasoline in 1996. It's first phase outs began 1975. It took 20 year to remove it. Was the 'natural' state of car use, leaded or unleaded gasoline use? Why didn't we ban it outright completely in 1975 if it was so horrible?
Neither. It was just a social change based on the understanding of the negative effects of lead, which had not been previously known and became known and better understood over time.
There is no 'natural' state of things. There are just choices we make. Leaded gasoline persists in many parts of the world still. Just like many children are still being beaten into right handedness in other societies.
I seriously doubt anyone is 'liberated' by being able to be left handed or right handed anymore than are liberated by what car they buy. But they certainly do convince themselves, and are convinced by marketing, that that Jeep makes them cooler and more fun than that boring losers who don't drive Jeeps! I have met a few Jeep lovers who tell me my Honda means I am clearly oppressed, and I should get a Jeep like they drive and be liberated by the massive repair bills they come with.
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there isn't a clear consensus of any of this. it's all very fuzzy correlations.
there is the counter-argument too that these diagnoses are overdiagnosed, especially in boys, due to environmental/cultural changes in our expectations of their behaviors.
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upper middle class professionals are the class by which everything else is measured, yes. conformity with their expectations and behaviors are considered 'success' and anything less than or different is 'failure'.
But autism rates are higher among the middle and upper middle class... because they have the resources to diagnose and treat the difference. as a working-class person, i never ever heard of anything about autism or adhd or mental illness until I got to college in my working-class rural town, none of these ideas existed in day to day life or conversation. nobody had depression, anxiety, or any of that. and the freshman year college, all the sudden these terms became daily parts of my vocabulary. i never even really saw them on the internet for most of the 90s and 2000s.
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nobody is really wired to me one hand or the other, we can all learn to be ambidextrous. your are that way because you just feel more comfortable/experienced doing certain things with one hand than the other, it's a formation of neuromuscular habit.
it's just a matter of practice, but yes, as children the adults around us often DEMAND we be one or the other. just like they demand gendered behaviors, etc. And children conform because adults like conformity.
it's interesting as an adult, like getting coaching and having to re-learn basic bio mechanics you 'assume' are some sort of default, because well, nobody ever told/taught you you could/should be doing things differently. like there are different way to hold pens for different styles of writing...
not any different really when say, comes to language use and accents. you have a 'native' one you got from your upbringing, but you can unlearn it and a lot of people do because they won't gain social acceptance if they retain it. when I code switch to my 'native' speech... people freak out because it offends them because I'm supposed to sound smart and 'educated' , not like a stupid working-class hick. and of course, the first year i came back from college all my family/friends basically asked me why i was such a douchebag and talked so pretentiously...
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further than that, our cultural expectations of what is 'normal' have shifted drastically over the past two generations.
i'd argue that what once in the 'normal', is no longer, hence leading to greater need and identification of various differences where none were previously seen. Sort of like how you think all birds are the same, until you become a bird watcher, then you see every birth as different by species, and if you are a scientist studying a particular population of birds, you would gain the ability to identify them by their individual personalities and characteristics.
but I, as a lay person, have no idea wtf the difference between a sparrow and a chickadee is, they are just all brown/black bird blobs of a similar size that try to steal my food when I eat outside. they are just 'birds' to me. but for someone with a PhD in ornithology, they are two completely different things.
cool, that's not true near me. the airport here has a special tax that doubles the rental rates.
in my town a rental is like 75/day, at the airport it's 150 for the same car.
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yeah that's not how it works. you have more traction, more control, and more speed. it's superior.
but people just hate it because it's new and different.
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no, gravel and mountain bikes. it's for increased traction and rollover.
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32" vs 700c or 29"
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SALINGER TAUGHT ME TO LOVE THE FLAT EARTH.
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they got vaccines and became gay and round and autistic.
back before we were shooting vaccines into them with our gay vaccine rockets they were totally flat and straight.
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People do this all the time in hobby groups and other social formations.
Right now in cycling the industry is pushing a new wheel size, and people are freaking out about it and saying they will ostracize people who buy a new bike with the new wheels. And every youtuber influencer is like making videos about how they will stay loyal to the old size... and they all did this over a decade ago and in a few years they will all be huge proponents of the new wheels once they are socially acceptable to do so, when it's established and no longer 'new and scary'.
Everyone desperately wants to signal to the herd they are part of the group, until the herd makes it acceptable to change your mind.
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YEAH BUT I SAW IT IN A MOVE THAT PENGUINS ARE MONOGAMOUS FOR LIFE, in a movie 20 years ago.
I don't want to be told that they are only monogamous for each year and they over their lives they have 20 different partners.
One thing is beautiful and magical, the other means they are disgusting flightless sluts.
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same with vaccines. saying they just work, isn't exciting.
claiming they cause autism and are destroying society and we're better off without them, makes you feel special and smart. your kids won't get them because your kids are different and healthier and better, than those lowly vaccine-riddled kids.
also HER NAME IS SPELLED ASHLUIY.
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gotta keep those artists employed somehow in the age of AI
rental costs at the airport are 200-300% of those at non-airport rental locations.
you dont' rent cars, clearly. you are just making up nonsense. i rented cars for years before i gave up and bought a car, because owning a car was CHEAPER than renting one 2-3 times a month and dropping like $150-200 on every rental.
car renting is a PITA process. 1/3 of the time you don't even get the car you booked, you get a 'similar model'. you also need to pay for insurance would more than doubles the rental cost.
data is great, but data isn't reflective of my local mechanic rates.
in my city car mechanics charge 200/hr, on the cheap side. bicycle mechanics, charge 100/hr.
i am sure in rural texas the costs of mechanic work or half or less than what i pay.
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he probably was never cheated on or lied to about sex.
that stuff messes you up, and the average person deals with it. some lucky folks don't.
I never imagined anyone would cheat on me until they did. and they told me it was my fault. lol
Oh, and what social system of order and productivity do you think should take over that authority? communism? anarchism?
What is 'typical human life'?
Am i better off being beaten into submission and diagnosed and drugged by a communist expansionist dictatorship than a capitalist state of settler colonialism?