thomas

What is the name for that occasional derealization feeling that you don’t belong to the same species as your fellow humans? As if you were an alien anthropologist gazing at them from space.

I get that feeling a lot

Shit’s poppin’ off on the India/Pakistan border! https://t.co/QIvKlvrKsT

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What is the name for that occasional derealization feeling that you don’t belong to the same species as your fellow humans? As if you were an alien anthropologist gazing at them from space.

I get that feeling a lot

https://x.com/TheOnlyDSC/status/1917339812366819604

Aviator, diver, Etherean, nexialist, PhD in aviation ∩ climate science | Host of /diving /ethfinance /eth-staker /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas

I don't understand, is this a real border or just a theatrical performance?

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Also, borders aren’t real to begin with, they’re also part of the dramaturgy of the human species.

A superior intelligent alien would scratch their head at our insistence to draw arbitrary lines in the sand and call ourselves different names depending on which side the cosmic lottery got us born in

Both. The peacocking is largely symbolic but tensions are high at the moment, and mistakes happen when somebody gets heated and discharges a weapon

Context:

I think the NK/SK border has some of that theatrical drama too. But yeah, it’s precisely the absurdity of it all that’s triggering my derealization feeling

The context is generally clear to me, I just can't imagine that somewhere during a military conflict in any other part of the world there would be such performaces between two opposing sides.

Both. The peacocking is largely symbolic but tensions are high at the moment, and mistakes happen when somebody gets heated and discharges a weapon

Context: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/29/asia/kashmir-pakistan-india-tension-military-intl-hnk