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What mighty weight we give to such tiny words

Hello Sweetness,

Positivity = Good Negativity = Bad

We tend to divide our experiences and our moods into either camp.

It’s shorthand, an easily consumed label to sanitise complexity. Saves time, saves labour, makes decisions easy.

I heard something good about that, I’ll buy it

We wont eat there it has bad reviews

They’re in a bad mood, we’ll just ignore it

Instead of unpacking the huge amount of detail and information bundled in one tiny word, we not only make decisions based on that, but we also make moral judgements on it – What’s right and what’s wrong.

On just one tiny word.

A.

Ernesto Garcia Cabral's 'Aires de primavera', Revista de Revistas, Mexico, c. 1920s. An illustration of a young woman reading a book and carrying recreational equipment for spending a spring's day outside. The colours are orange and green and the image is lively with a bird in the sky.
Ernesto Garcia Cabral’s ‘Aires de primavera’, Revista de Revistas, Mexico, c. 1920s.

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