@americanbaron: the meaning of muffins… It is a distinctly human practice to tell stories. Penguins don't waddle around blathering about who might get laid off from the fishing job next week. While animals have the capacity for memory, human animals have not only the capacity, but we can embellish them and even make them up. "Made up memories" it's not a bad way to describe what stories are to an infant. Story is an instinctive feature of human beings. We tell them, listen to them, and notably we buy into them. Marriage, finding one's life purpose, healing oneself through therapy, prayer, currency, muffins, these are all narratives we allow ourselves to buy into. We eat pie for dessert and pancakes for breakfast and rarely vice versa. You eat a cupcake for breakfast, now you're a degenerate. You bring muffins to a birthday party and now you're boring. Muffins and cupcakes belong in the same family and in more ways than not, they are the same thing. but the narrative we agree on allows eating what is basically a cupcake for breakfast because we've agreed to call it a muffin. This is one of many collective narratives we buy into and it is a very human one. 🧁

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