you must fix your heart

there a lot of details of american macroculture that have caused what I'd describe as a reality fracturing mental reset when I learned about them. one was learning that children do literally swear their allegiance to the american flag every morning before school and that's not a quaint comedic exaggeration left over from the 1950s like rabbit ears on a TV. one was learning that Americans have to pay for ambulance transportation. one was learning that Americans are taught the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tough brave necessities that made the world safer and not horrific war crimes on a footing with the nazi holocaust.

Something something about how other peoples cultural norms are often seen as some kind of disorder or something.

In time travel movies, when the time traveler asks 'What year is this?!?' they're always treated like they're being weird for asking.

That is a great point. Especially if you time travel to a period of Big Historical Events, when everybody's looking a little wild about the eyes.

In the same vein:

"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

This is what burgers look like in your mind when all the places to get food near you have already closed