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Thought Terminating Cliches can be useful because it is not productive to worry about things over which you have no power.
Not YOLO, though, which is often used to stop thinking about the consequences of choosing to do something stupid.
I also often hear "It is what it is" to mean "someone made a bad decision and I'm not fighting it like I should."
Or the thing has already been done.
I see it used oftentimes to dismiss systematic injustice aswell... "it is what it is"..
which on an individual level feels like we have no control over but is infact something we have a lot of control over. A very malignant useage I feel
Yes, the subject being dismissed is what makes it a good or bad thing. Is it something you have zero control over? Good thing. Otherwise, bad thing.
I associate it with "I suck as a manager, but I kiss ass hard enough to fail upward."
like if you encounter a bear in the woods. or a man.
But does it shit in the woods? Or is that a different kind of cliche?
if a bear falls in the woods, and nobody is there to witness it, does it make a sound?
And does it shit a pope?
the question of our times.
It's specifically good when you're ruminating.
That's fair