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[overreached]

Shutting Up for Imbeciles Dummies
1. Close your mouth.
2. Keep it that way.

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[windsorknot]

Sounds simple enough.

[overreached]

Apparently not for everyone.

There was a request for a companion diagram.

[windsorknot]

You could always offer a one-on-one demonstration instead.

[overreached]

I did. They didn't respond, which is better for both of us.

[windsorknot]

I can't possibly imagine why.

I'm guessing this is another curse.

[overreached]

One of the more pointless ones but also one of the least harmful.

[windsorknot]

I'd heard that they weren't all completely disruptive, though after October I was starting to find that hard to believe.

[overreached]

October is notoriously problematic, but what you heard is true. Many curses are annoying more than life-threatening or altering.

[windsorknot]

So they're just meant to make us look foolish instead of having us outright suffer.

[overreached]

More or less, not that it always works.

[windsorknot]

It does succeed in wasting our time, though. Surely that counts for something.

[overreached]

Not a lot, but something, probably. Any kind of control counts for something, I figure.

[windsorknot]

How could I forget. Curses are all about losing one's self of control.

[overreached]

At the root, yes, but people do forget. They focus on the result--how embarrassing it is or how invasive it is--instead of the way their strings were pulled in the first place.

Some of them get by easier by accepting it, I think is the theory.

[windsorknot]

And we all become complacent once we do accept it. Psychologically, it makes sense. Humans adapt. And like anything, it's a strength that can be turned into a weakness.

[overreached]

A big one, considering if the majority goes the way of accepting then it's the people trying to get out who will look like the problem.

I doubt that's going to happen any time soon though.

Periodically there have been attempts to break through the barrier shelling us in. Reportedly, it never ends well.