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Description: When did we start baby-talking at cosmic wonders while treating puppies like religious experiences? Khayyam dissects society's backwards relationship with genuine awe versus manufactured cuteness, exposing how we've emotionally devalued the sublime while inflating the mundane. A scorching takedown of linguistic laziness meets existential confusion.
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This rant burns because it exposes our collective inability to appropriately scale our emotional responses to reality. We're so oversaturated with fake amazement and artificial cuteness that we've lost the capacity to distinguish between the genuinely sublime and the trivially adorable. When your response to the Northern Lights is the same as your response to a baby's sneeze, you've officially broken your wonder-detection system.
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