If all the people throughout history would have said to themselves: "It is what it is", then we 'd all still be living in grass huts and caves.
...on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
It would've been what it would've been...
There MUST be more to this provincial life!
The interesting thing is that anatomically modern Homo sapiens appeared about 300,000 years ago and did live exclusively as hunter-gatherers for about 280,000 of those years.
Then they all got bored and invented the Wii U
Being invented by cavemen actually explains a lot. 🤔
It was what it was
Which highlights the importance of education and learning about the things people learned before us.
We as a a species did not inhabit caves regularly or as a standard.
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but yet there we were, watching the shadows. sorry, off topic, but i love that story.
Don't search for "thought terminating clichés"
There you go.
It happens.
Why not.
So it seems.
Hard disagree. It only applies for things you cannot change but should try to accept rather than stressing over it.
If you say "it is what it is," in reference to things you could change but choose not to, well that's on you.
I think saying that is just human nature. There's not much you can do to change human nature. It is what it is.
At least I’d have my own hut or cave!
On the other hand, we wouldn't have climate collapse and microplastics.
And we'd all be much better off for it.
Eurema's Dam by R. Lafferty
https://ebookslib.org/sf/12898-eurema-s-dam.html
In this comic science fiction story, the author proposes that the only people who are truly inventive are those who are too inept to do anything else. The hero, unable to do simple math, invents a calculator at age six. He goes on to create any number of useful inventions, including intelligent robots who mock him as a buffoon.
Did my grandma write this because it sounds just like something my grandma would write.
...had* said to themselves...
The world would be a better place.
Looks at grass "It is what it is" Sleeps outside
Would we be happier?
Given the state of current events, that might not necessarily be a bad thing. Well, medicines/vaccines notwithstanding.
Then we'd be extinct you mean.
“It is what it is” is what my boss says when he wants me to shut up
Yes, but only if literally all the people said that. Progress happens because the vast masses adopt the new ideas of a very small number of innovators.