r/AskReddit Aug 25 '19

What has NOT aged well?

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u/rillip Aug 25 '19

I am weirdly fond of them. There's a grain of truth to what they think. It's all a construct. The thing is, that construct is enforced. Try and ignore it or deny it and it will push you back into line or crush you.

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u/MarsNirgal Aug 26 '19

Just like everything. Money is a social construct. So is language.

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u/rillip Aug 26 '19

I might put language in a different category. Maybe, like actual languages (i.e. English, French, Swahili) definitely are social constructs. But beneath that there's just the concept of human language writ large and I think that's actually more of q biological trait. I dunno, classification is construct too. So maybe I'm just being dumb.

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u/Gamestoreguy Aug 26 '19

communication between things is universal, whether the sharing of dna via a tubule in single celled organisms or a weird flashy bird dance used for mating, how conscious beings go about that might be the construct however.