• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    The phrase “thought terminating cliche” is itself a thought terminating cliche.

    You slap that label on a saying, and now you don’t have to think in order to figure out what it really means.

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      7 months ago

      It can be a thought terminating cliche. Like most TTCs, it can be pointing at some true aspect of reality, and be used to not go deeper than that