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comment by rob05c
rob05c  ·  3898 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Everyone says 'huh': new study on universal words

I find cultural invariants terribly romantic. In the adventure-and-idealism sense, not the candles-and-wine sense.

Here is this thing— and there are so few— that binds all of humanity together. It inspires hope that we can work together, that there are things we all agree on. And maybe somehow we can build on these things to resolve the bigger disagreements.