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The fears we inherit from stories we never lived
A post argues that retold stories can lose context while their frightening details linger, passing along fears without firsthand experience.
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A user argues that long before social media, stories passed from person to person could lose details and gain exaggerations, leaving people afraid of dangers they had never faced. The post likens what we watch today to the brain’s “training data” and urges people to seek out evidence of what humanity can build, too.
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